When you have to explain how to get to a friend in a certain place, if it is an address without a house number or outside the city or that is not too easy to reach, it can be useful to send him personalized directions, perhaps with some writing on the right warnings avoiding interrupted roads, limited routes or streets not marked on the map.
To avoid the problems that any road navigator such as Google Maps may have in interpreting country roads and routes of various types, you can easily and quickly draw a personalized map to send thanks to the Google Maps creation function.
With the same tool it is also possible to create routes and itineraries to be kept and used on a trip, on a trip or on excursions of all kinds.
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To create customized routes and directions to anywhere in the world in Google Maps, you just need to open the My Maps site and create a new map.
You can change the name of the map by clicking on the word Map without title and then add a marker by looking for the place under the search bar in the center or by pressing the marker button and then clicking on a point on the map.
In this second case it is possible to take anywhere in the world, not necessarily a road, and give it the name and description you want.
Each selected point can be colored as you prefer, unlike the others.
The buttons below the search bar also allow you to draw a line, i.e. create an automatic route by car, bicycle or on foot and then also create driving directions starting from the selected point on the map.
The last button at the top right of the toolbar under the search box is that of the ruler, useful for measuring distances and drawing straight lines on the world map.
In My Maps it is possible to change the graphic aspect of the map, pressing where it is written Base Map and choosing instead a satellite view or the atlas or the one with the reliefs or several others.
Each time you add directions or new marker points, you add a level.
The levels allow you to activate or hide routes and directions, in order to keep different options close at hand or to create different routes (useful if you are planning a traveling trip).
You can create a level for places to eat, another level for sightseeing or make sure that each level includes all the things you should see in a day.
If you want to change the route, you can click anywhere on the blue line and drag it to the alternative route.
To add new waypoints to a route you can use the menu on the left and the link Add destination .
You can continue adding destinations to a master itinerary or divide the map into several levels, perhaps by calling them with the date of the planned day.
You can also reorder destinations in each level by dragging and dropping them in the list to change the order in which you will visit these locations.
You can send the map with personalized directions once it has been completed, or it can be kept and displayed on Google Maps on your smartphone.
The share button to send the map is located at the top left and works like sharing Google Drive documents.
You can then send the link via Gmail or Facebook, changing the access to it so that it can be viewed by anyone with the link (so that it is not private).
On the Android smartphone and on the iPhone, you can find the maps created in Google Maps by touching the menu button and going to the Your places section.
READ ALSO: Create personal maps and maps with Google Maps
To avoid the problems that any road navigator such as Google Maps may have in interpreting country roads and routes of various types, you can easily and quickly draw a personalized map to send thanks to the Google Maps creation function.
With the same tool it is also possible to create routes and itineraries to be kept and used on a trip, on a trip or on excursions of all kinds.
READ ALSO: 20 most useful and hidden Google Maps functions
To create customized routes and directions to anywhere in the world in Google Maps, you just need to open the My Maps site and create a new map.
You can change the name of the map by clicking on the word Map without title and then add a marker by looking for the place under the search bar in the center or by pressing the marker button and then clicking on a point on the map.
In this second case it is possible to take anywhere in the world, not necessarily a road, and give it the name and description you want.
Each selected point can be colored as you prefer, unlike the others.
The buttons below the search bar also allow you to draw a line, i.e. create an automatic route by car, bicycle or on foot and then also create driving directions starting from the selected point on the map.
The last button at the top right of the toolbar under the search box is that of the ruler, useful for measuring distances and drawing straight lines on the world map.
In My Maps it is possible to change the graphic aspect of the map, pressing where it is written Base Map and choosing instead a satellite view or the atlas or the one with the reliefs or several others.
Each time you add directions or new marker points, you add a level.
The levels allow you to activate or hide routes and directions, in order to keep different options close at hand or to create different routes (useful if you are planning a traveling trip).
You can create a level for places to eat, another level for sightseeing or make sure that each level includes all the things you should see in a day.
If you want to change the route, you can click anywhere on the blue line and drag it to the alternative route.
To add new waypoints to a route you can use the menu on the left and the link Add destination .
You can continue adding destinations to a master itinerary or divide the map into several levels, perhaps by calling them with the date of the planned day.
You can also reorder destinations in each level by dragging and dropping them in the list to change the order in which you will visit these locations.
You can send the map with personalized directions once it has been completed, or it can be kept and displayed on Google Maps on your smartphone.
The share button to send the map is located at the top left and works like sharing Google Drive documents.
You can then send the link via Gmail or Facebook, changing the access to it so that it can be viewed by anyone with the link (so that it is not private).
On the Android smartphone and on the iPhone, you can find the maps created in Google Maps by touching the menu button and going to the Your places section.
READ ALSO: Create personal maps and maps with Google Maps
