I’ve become interested in ways that companies are reinventing addresses with technology and actually know my home’s latitude and longitude. But relating degrees, minutes, seconds is clumsy. So what’s the story with Google’s alternative “Plus Codes”?
I’m trying to plan a road trip and have been using Google Maps. Very cool, but is there any way to reroute or detour to destinations along the way? I would like to end up with turn-by-turn directions that encompass the additional destinations.
I have a new dash cam for my car and it adds GPS information to the video footage. Problem is, that’s shown in some cryptic lat/long notation. How can I convert it to locations on a map?
My Dad’s an old school sailor and he likes to give me locations in lat/long [latitude & longitude]. I want to give him some of his own medicine and tell start sharing locations as lat/long instead of street addresses. How can I figure it out?
My girlfriend shared her location yesterday as she drove from work and I could watch her progress on my computer. Very cool! How can I do that too and share my location from Google Maps with her?
I really like Google Mail – gmail – on my iPhone but whenever it goes to open up a map to show me an address or location, it uses Google Maps. Tedious. Can I change the default back to Apple Maps somehow?
When I’m working late at night as an Uber driver, is there any way I can share my location with my friend? Just in case something happens? I have a Samsung Galaxy S7 if that matters.
I’ve been using Google Maps with great results, but suddenly it complains it can’t find me. I’m using Chrome. What’s up?
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