r/GoogleMaps • • 18h ago

Help/Support how do i prevent family from tracking my phones locations with their google fi account?

5 Upvotes

i think its a lack of privacy and my brother is always checking where i go everytime i leave the house or state. he manages my phone number on his google fi account because we have a family plan for the whole family so idk what hes seeing or how he is able to track where i go. all i know is that he knows my every location. i dont like that. were both grown adults here why does he need to know my every location? how do i prevent this so he doesnt know where im always at. if i turn off my location will he know i turned it off? he is the type of person who will take offense to that


r/GoogleMaps • • 4h ago

What's with the disorienting new enter/exit Street View animations on web?

1 Upvotes

Recent meeting at Google HQ:

Bozo 1: "Hey gUyZ, wouldn't it be, like, cool, if when the dumdums [Google corpo-speak for users] exit Street View, they get nauseous and lose their place on the map?"

Big Important Bozo: "HAHAH yes, do it, those stupid dumdums! Make it so the world seems to spin around so they feel woozy!"

Bozo 2: "Guyz Guyz Guyz my Guyz, what about if when they enter Street View, we spin the view so they start out facing in a totally unintuitive direction?!? HAHAHA those useless dumdums"

Big Important Bozo: *chokes to death laughing, dying words: "Dooo ittt, thoose stupiddd ... dum.. dummss".

Or something.


r/GoogleMaps • • 12h ago

Screenshot Cool little QOL fun! Trees in fall colors.

2 Upvotes

Just noticed this using Google Maps via Apple CarPlay. The new update shows trees in fall colors using navigation.
Pic of said digital trees


r/GoogleMaps • • 20h ago

Google Maps not working on my laptops but my phone app is working fine.

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I’m having trouble with Google Maps. When I use my laptops on my profile, Google Maps won’t show my ID badge, or the zoom or any of the clickable icons that also appear on the map.  Saved places don’t appear on the Map.  The search bar appears but it doesn’t work.  When I use a mouse to zoom in or out, the motion of Google Maps online is herkie-jerky and moves funny.  This happens both my MacBook and my older PC when using my main profile. If I use one of my other profiles, it works normal on every device.  This has been giving me the identical trouble on Safari, Edge and Chrome. But Google Maps works normal on my iPhone as this problem happens when I’m using one of my laptops. This main Google profile of mine works fine with my regular email, but I noticed that when I bookmarked the Google calendar website, the little icon next to the calendar no longer shows today’s date.  It just displays the Google “G” instead.  I have tried everything from deleting book marks to updating browsers etc.  The only thing that seems to work is when I clear my browser history and search for Google Maps and log on that way.  But if I close the page, I’m back to having trouble again. It seems to me that something on my account is blocking me from logging in to my profile unless I start with a clean history.  Does anybody have any ideas on what to try next? Otherwise I might have to use one of my lesser used Google email accounts which would be a bummer because all of my saved locations are on my primary Google account. 


r/GoogleMaps • • 22h ago

What's wrong with Google and Google maps

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Let's say I search " park near me" on Google , the first Park which appears it shows needs 500 m away from you and when I click on it and click on direction and open Google map , it comes out to be 2.4 km. And all the other results are like that . What is wrong ?


r/GoogleMaps • • 9h ago

Maps not loading route problem solved

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I had a recurring problem for at least two years on two successive android phones: maps would work perfectly on WiFi and most of the time on mobile data. At times it would fail on data (map not loading, map loading but not loading a rout, “no internet service” although service was obviously available). Upon re-entering WiFi maps would work again and continue to work on data thereafter, but fail again at some time.
Apparent cause: I had set a large number of apps to “WiFi only” to save on my data plan. It seems that maps uses the app Google Play Services for access to the maps server and once established, access is good for a period of time. With Google Play Services set to WiFi only, it could obtain a handshake with the server and maps would work thereafter on data as long as the handshake was valid. Turning Google Play Services to “WiFi or mobile data” resolved the problem. (I am not a tech person, so this my not be technically precise)


r/GoogleMaps • • 11h ago

Street View Google Maps Live View: "Unable to launch augmented reality functionality" on TCL 50 Pro

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I am having a problem with Live View in Google Maps on my TCL 50 Pro.

Device: TCL 50 Pro

Android version: 16

Google Maps version: 26.42.01.997557324

What is happening:

Initially the Live View option in Google Maps was greyed out. After I installed "Google Play Services for AR" (ARCore) from the Play Store, Live View now shows the error "Unable to launch augmented reality functionality" when I try to start it.

What I have already tried:

- Updated Google Maps, Google Play Services and Google Play Services for AR

- Cleared the Google Maps cache

- Allowed Camera and Precise Location permissions

- Restarted the phone

- Tried walking directions outdoors in an area with Street View coverage

Could you please tell me:

  1. Is the TCL 50 Pro supported by ARCore and Google Maps Live View?

  2. If it is supported, how can I fix this error?

Thank you,

Anjum


r/GoogleMaps • • 13h ago

My Maps doesn't export <coordinates> in KML when pins come from addresses. Wrote a userscript to pull them out.

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I've been mapping out ~700 bars in a neighborhood for a project and put them all in My Maps by address (street, number, zip). My Maps geocoded them fine and they look perfect on the map.

Then I tried to export the map to KML and import it into Organic Maps to plan visits. The pins scattered everywhere.

When you export a My Maps map to KML, Google only includes `<address>` for each pin, not `<coordinates>`. This is fine if the pins already had lat/lng, but when they came from geocoding an address, the exported KML has no position information at all. Any app you import it into has to guess based on the address string, and you know how that goes.

It's a deliberate limitation, cause Google doesn't want My Maps used as a free bulk geocoder. Fair enough, but it leaves you stuck when you've got hundreds of pins.

This is why I made a userscript to solve this problem. Tested on Firefox + Violentmonkey and Chrome + Tampermonkey. ~570 items take about 4 minutes. It has a STOP button if something goes wrong.

The script is here: https://github.com/davidosdr/coords-mymaps/

It's plain MIT, no analytics, no signup, no backend.


r/GoogleMaps • • 20h ago

Why is it not showing traffic anymore?

0 Upvotes

For the last week or so it shows very minimal traffic and tells me the route is clear, only got there to be a ton of traffic


r/GoogleMaps • • 22h ago

Discussion Google Maps now allows 25 stops instead of 10? Possible new rollout

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I'm a delivery driver in Italy, and I've discovered that my Google Maps app now allows 25 points in a single route, instead of the usual 10.

I'm using a Samsung Galaxy S24, Google Maps version 26.42.01.997557324.

I tested it with 25 locations in New York, and Maps successfully calculated the entire route. It won't let me add a 26th point.

I also tested another phone, which is still limited to 10 points, although I haven't checked its app version yet.

Since r/GoogleMaps doesn't allow me to attach images, I've posted the screenshot here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/couriersofreddit/s/W34gfUVmpL

Is anyone else seeing this? Could Google be testing a new limit?