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February 14, 2012
If you’re anything like me, you might use
Google Maps
to look up the same places and directions more than once, like the location of your hotel while you’re on vacation, or directions to a friend’s house that you’ve visited before. When you’re signed in to your Google account, the
My Places tab
on Google Maps makes it easy to find starred locations, places you’ve rated and checked-in, saved Custom Maps, and even past local searches.
Now, when you visit
My Places
, you’ll see directions you’ve recently looked up appear on the panel to the left of the map. You can also filter the results to access only these previous directions from the ‘More’ tab.
This historical archive of directions results makes it quicker and easier to continue planning later. For example, if you have a few minutes to spare during the day and use your work computer to search for directions from your house to the restaurant where you’re meeting friends for dinner, you can easily access those same directions from your home computer via My Places once you’re ready to head out. We’ll even remember when you’ve customized your directions by dragging the blue line to your preferred path, and show that you route again.
These past directions and places will only appear for signed-in users who enable
Web History
. And like other items in My Places, it’s simple to remove any of the locations or directions via the drop-down arrow next to each item.
Whenever you need to access or organize your important places and directions, just visit Google Maps and click on the
My Places
button to get started.
Update (2/15):
Sorry for the delay, but the new feature for viewing saved directions in My Places will be available soon. We'll update this post again when the feature is live.
Update (2/18):
The feature is now live on Google Maps. Thank you for your patience!
Posted by Tatsuo Nomura, Software Engineer, Google Maps
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