Navigating Google Maps for Directions on Your Computer Browser

Google Maps is a familiar navigation tool for current web and mobile users. By simply entering your destination on Google Maps and utilizing the directions feature, you can discover the shortest route and estimated travel time.

Guidance: How to Use Google Maps on Web Browsers

Google Maps is more than just an online map. It offers many useful features for users. You can use Google Maps to preview upcoming locations or, most commonly, to search for directions. Google Maps' map system is increasingly sophisticated, making it easy for users to find any information they need.

Using Google Maps is well-known, but there are many tips and tricks within Google Maps that you may not always know. With the following guide on how to use Google Maps, you'll discover many more useful tips.

How to Use Google Maps, Find Directions on the Web

1. Finding Directions on Google Maps

This is a fundamental feature and one that Google Maps users are concerned about. It helps you search for directions to any location on the map in the fastest and safest manner possible, ensuring compliance with traffic laws.

Step 1: You can easily get directions from any location on the map using Google Maps' most intelligent route search system. First, if you don't know where the location you're looking for is on the map, use the search function in Google Maps.

Step 2: Immediately after, information about the location will be displayed, and you just need to click on 'directions,' the system will automatically take you there.

Step 3: Beforehand, don't forget to select your current location and mode of transportation, as this will affect your route. If you're using a motorcycle, you can choose 'walking or biking' as your mode of transport.

Step 4: Immediately, you will see your route along with the route and time it will take to get there.

Step 5: Another way, if you know the location on the map, you can directly tap on the map and select 'directions'.

Step 6: Next is to choose your location, it could be a preset location or use GPS or any location you desire.

Step 7: The results appear with the minimum departure time, of course, there are still many other options if you want to take a different route.

This is the most efficient and popular way to use Google Maps today, and if you're using mobile devices, it's a significant advantage because the mobile version of Google Maps is much more powerful than PC. We can easily find directions on Google Maps using mobile devices with optimized technologies. Specifically, refer to the guide on how to find directions on Google Maps using Android, iPhone mobile devices.

2. Using the 'What's here' Feature

This is a basic feature of Google Maps, it tells us about the locations around us or the locations we're heading to. To find out, you need to click on the location and select 'What's here', then the search box will display the coordinates of the selected location, and below is the exact address.

3. Setting Your Location

Setting two locations as 'Home' and 'Work' will help you find directions more quickly because the frequency of you departing from these two locations is very high.

Step 1: To do this, you simply need to enter the address of your home and work, first, press the Menu button.

Step 2: Then the Menu list appears, you select 'your places', here we can adjust our locations.

Step 3: Here you are allowed to choose to add another home or work location, note that you must click on a specific point on the map before adding a separate location.

Step 4: Finally, enter the address name and click save to complete.

4. Map Sharing Feature

There are 2 ways to quickly share a map location, one is to press Menu then select Share or Embed Map.

And then a link appears that allows you to send this link to your friends.

Note: Use a shortened URL for easier sharing with friends.

The second method is to directly click on a certain location, an information panel about that place appears, including a sharing section, this is also how to share maps like above.

5. Find Nearby Points of Interest

If you want to find information about restaurants or entertainment areas around your location, simply click on any location on the map and then right-click “Find Nearby Points of Interest”.

Immediately, suggestions appear for you to find schools, restaurants, hotels, or even gas stations.

As in the example above, when using Google Maps to search for nearby points of interest, I chose a restaurant, immediately a list of nearby restaurants appears with complete information.

Above are ways to use Google Maps effectively. Within the scope of this article, we have only instructed you on some basic features. You can explore more features that Google Maps offers to use it more effectively.

Currently, Vietnamese users have another option with the Coc Coc Map tool developed by Coc Coc. This is a versatile mapping tool that allows you to look up all locations in Vietnam quite accurately and in detail. Refer to the article finding places on Coc Coc Map to learn how to use this tool better.