The most used application in the world to get directions on the fly and check addresses on the internet is Google Maps and, since Chrome is the Google browser, the integration of Google Maps into Chrome becomes logical and obvious. Google Maps already allows various customizations from the interface of its website, where you can save your favorite addresses to get directions faster, without having to manually write the home or office address. With Google Chrome and several extensions dedicated to Google Maps, you can instead do much more to improve the tool and use it to get more information and faster .
In this post, therefore, we see some of the best extensions, downloadable for free from the Chrome web Store, to improve Google Maps on Chrome .
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1) Google Maps in Chrome is the application to quickly launch maps from the home tab or from the application menu.
2) Carbon Footprints for Google Maps (disappeared)
Whenever you are looking for directions, below, Google Maps also shows the cost in euros of petrol for that route. After installing this extension, for each route, the estimate of CO2 consumption and, therefore, of how much it is polluted, including the number of trees that must be planted to compensate for carbon emissions, is also shown.
3) Quick Maps is a tool for finding the addresses that are encountered on websites, to see their position quickly in a box.
4) Locate Me is a button added to Google Maps to see your position at all times.
5) Scroll Maps is useful on Macs, to move with two fingers on the touchpad and to zoom in by holding down the Command key only.
6) Send To Google Maps
This extension for Google Chrome instead allows you to immediately search for a street address that is on a website, simply by selecting it. After selecting an address, you can press the right mouse button and then choose the new menu item "send to Google Maps" to get directions or to see the address on the map.
7) Scribble maps
Those who use Google Maps a lot, especially to indicate road routes to others, should use Scribble to improve the maps and draw on them. With this extension, you can draw lines with the mouse on the map open in Google Chrome and pizza different types of markers, both graphical and textual. Each map drawn using Scribble can be exported as a Google Earth file or saved as a JPG image on the PC. To use Scribble without registration, you can install the application to be launched from the Chrome application tab. Scribble is a very powerful web application for creating maps, also in Italian.
8) QR Code Generator
On Google Maps, in fact, it is possible to generate the QR code of the driving directions or relatively a position. Once the QR code has been obtained, it can be read to the camera of the Android smartphone or iPhone to save the address on the mobile phone and immediately obtain the directions on the navigator.
See in another post how to create QR codes for any information.
9) GEO +
Using this extension on Chrome, a button is added to search for addresses on Google Maps.
Unlike Mini Maps, however, what you are looking for are photos of the street, the area sought or a particular place.
The photographs are viewed continuously in a slideshow and are taken by the Panoramio service to which anyone can add photos visible to everyone (See how to publish photos on Google Earth). To function, GEO + requires you to restart your browser.
10) Yelp to Google Maps to search the places recommended by Yelp, among the main sites of reviews of hotel restaurants and tourist places.
