Got on a ride, and they left you at an unknown place – literally in the middle of nowhere?
Don’t panic! Your smartphone will definitely be of great help here.
You already have Google Maps pre-installed on your phone, which will help you in getting back home.
Keep reading to find out more about how it can help you navigate!
About Google Maps
Google Maps is an application that makes you navigate roads and ways faster. There are over 220 territories, countries, and millions of businesses mapped on the application. You can get features like real-time GPS navigation, transit, and traffic info here. You could even find nearby restaurants of any place that you travel to using this app – and not just that, it has numerous other helpful features.
Pre-Requisites
At first, you would need to turn your mobile phone’s GPS on so that the app can track your accurate location where you are situated at currently.
Follow the steps written below to turn the GPS of your phone on:
- From the Home Screen of your app, go to Apps > Settings > Location.
OR
- Go to your phone’s Settings > Security & Location.
- After that, you need to make sure that the location option is turned on.
- You might get a message displayed on your screen saying, “ Google Maps wants to track your location?”. You simply need to click on the “enable” option.
Steps To Follow
Here are the following steps on how you can navigate back to your home by using Google Maps:
- At first, when you load up the app, you will see a small option named “GO” appearing on the bottom right side (down). You need to click on that option.
- After you do that, you will see there are two sections to be filled out – “starting point” and “destination.”
- You then need to click on the starting point, which in turn will show you two more options, namely – “Your Location” and “Choose On Map.”
- According to your situation: you don’t know where you are currently, so you would need to click on “ Your location.”
- After that, fill out the “choose destination” section with your home address, and that’s literally it.
The app will then show you the ways of commuting to your home and the ways how you can – be it on a bike, train, or by walking.
Voice Navigation
When faced with a difficult situation like getting lost, I think panicking should be avoided at all costs, and a person should think over calmly. While I also know that ain’t always possible.
If that is your case, then you can navigate to your home more easily by taking the help of your phone’s AI.
You can take the help of Google Assistant and simply say, “hey google take me home” to your Google Assistant, and they will automatically help you with the navigation by operating Google Maps. With this method, you certainly don’t have to do any of the earlier-mentioned steps manually. You would just have to voice out your starting location and destination – that’s it!
While You Are At It…
Here are a few interesting facts to know about Google Maps:
- Google Maps has gigantic amounts of data – by which I mean around 21 million gigabytes worth of data.
- Google additionally employs license plate and face-blurring technology to ensure the protection of people’s privacy in street view mode. Users can even additionally request for the blurring.
- Google has additionally worked with 1000s of business proprietors in over 8 countries to bring Street View technology inside of buildings.
- The satellite imagery for both Google Earth and Google Maps – comes from a wide variety of third-party providers and sources.
- The team of Street View has taken hundreds of millions of pictures since the project first began back in 2007, and they have driven more than five million miles of road.
To Wrap It Up!
Again I would say that getting lost is a great deal of a panic-inducing ordeal, but you should definitely want to remain calm and think things through.
Thank you for reading up till here! I hope you found the information useful. Let me know in the comments your thoughts on the same.
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