Tweaking things like that can also help Google Maps remember and recommend places faster.Īlthough you can use the "location: result" method to get search results, that may not always be the most reliable. In essence, when you're at work, you can change your position to the workplace, and when you're at home, you can switch to your home address. This allows you to see only the places that are close to the location you choose. When you do this, it lets you use Google Maps with the default location you set for either of them.Īn advantage of setting your home and workplace addresses on the map is that you can switch between them whenever you want to run a search on Google Maps. You only need to update your home address and workplace on the map to achieve it. The update for all that includes this change is now available on Google Play, so don’t be shy, go grab it.Setting your location on Google Maps is pretty simple. To help increase accuracy, users can draw a figure 8 with their device, which will help calibrate the location.
The narrower it is, the more accurate your location is. On that blue dot, the wider your beam is, the less accurate your location reading is. This is actually the cool part of the announcement. Google also implemented a way to see how well your device’s location settings are calibrated. For example, if you are walking north, the blue dot will also be facing north. When you fire up the updated Google Maps, your little blue dot will face in the same direction as yourself.
In a Google Maps update that was first given to beta testers, as we’ve seen it for what seems like a couple of weeks now, the blue dot that indicates your location will now also indicate your direction. Not that this needs to be broken down any further, but let’s break it down for all to understand.
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