I was trying to look up a hotel and see how far it would be to the beach. Google maps loaded ALL hotels in the area with prices and don't even have an option to measure the distance. I don't want to know pricing for the entire city. How to turn this useless thing off and get to the regular map? I understand that Google is trying to make money, but in this case I will use some other software all together.

If you've ever looked at China in satellite view, you've probably noticed the roads and labels don't line up with the photos. They're shifted by about 300–700 m depending on where you are.

This isn't a Google bug. Chinese law requires maps of mainland China to use GCJ-02, a deliberately scrambled coordinate system. Google's road and place data for China is in GCJ-02, but its satellite imagery is at true GPS (WGS-84) positions, so the two never match.

I made a Chrome extension, China Satellite Align, that moves Google Maps' roads, labels, and places back to their true positions, so everything lines up:

- Roads and labels sit on the satellite photos (map, satellite, terrain and globe view) - Your location, searched places and routes are where they really are
- Coordinates Google shows (right-click, address bar) are real GPS coordinates, and you can search with GPS coordinates directly
- Optional: Street View coverage can move with the map or stay put (uploads in China are placed inconsistently)
- A small GPS ↔ GCJ-02 coordinate converter in the popup

It's free and open, collects no data, and only runs on Google Maps pages. Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan aren't affected, since Google doesn't shift them. Near a few borders (Shenzhen–Hong Kong, Dandong) some roads and rivers can still be slightly off.

Chrome Web Store link.

Happy to answer questions!

Can you stop telling me to make a u-turn in the middle of the road? And stop telling me to turn left where it says no left? And stop telling me to go down a one-way?

I'm the developer of My Location Timeline. It opens supported Google Maps Timeline exports on an Android phone so you can browse your history offline, without uploading it to a website.

• To export: on Android, open Settings → Location → Location services → Timeline → Export Timeline data, then save the JSON file. Menu names vary by phone.
• Supported: Android on-device Timeline JSON, and older Google Takeout Semantic Location History monthly JSON files (including inside a Takeout .zip). Not supported yet: iPhone exports and raw Records.json.
• Importing and viewing happen on-device. The app has no account, no ads and no analytics. Buying or restoring Pro uses Google Play.
• It reads existing exports only — it can't recover Timeline data that Google already deleted.
• Optionally it can keep recording new days (needs location permission).

Free: import, a summary of all imported history, the last seven days, and a preview of three older imported days. Most older dates need the optional one-time Pro purchase (no subscription).

Not affiliated with Google.

Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.yzy.locationtimelineprivate Privacy policy: https://youzh0003.github.io/privacy-policy/location-timeline-private.html

Happy to explain export compatibility or help troubleshoot imports. Please don't post your location-history files publicly.

I just recently came across this memory from 2021 when in school I remember it was foggy cold and gloomy outside I was next to a window with a few other people and we were messing around on the computers looking up random stuff on Google Maps until we found something creepy or interesting when I had to go get the door they searched up something along the lines or “sussy among us imposter da baby” and found this location where it has this unsettling abandoned place in the middle of nowhere it was shaped like a shed and the windows covered with wood and looked sketchy it had a door with weird stains and stuff I saw this when I came back I was curious and looked at it and looked very weird for a goofy title. A few years later I search it up and nothing came up that looked close to what we saw and had completely disappeared almost like it never existed. I still don’t know what this could have been since it was pretty odd but my guess was that it was some troll or something malicious

Why has the simple, fast and reliable voice address search function been replaced by Gemini AI? Since mine updated, I find myself getting angry with trying to use it to navigate anywhere. Even simple addresses seem to stump it, and frequently result in error messages. And searching for the same address does not even repeatably find the same location. And it takes so long to respond. How do I go back? This is trash

There is a local business that has been mass flagging negative reviews to have them removed. I am witness to multiple reviews being shaddowbanned after the owner has become beligerant, combative, and hostile towards people online.

I want to report this to google, and if possible, get the negative reviews updated.

I live in a home with a long driveway. Google Maps seems to have decided folks can drive through the woods from the neighboring street to my house.

It's not a pin problem, and my driveway isn't a road, it's just a matter of Maps thinking my driveway is on the wrong street. Anyone know the magic to fix this?

Has anyone recently experienced why certain routes will show black minutes? It only started recently and I've noticed half way or sometime into when I go into navigation mode it will fix itself and display the red color for traffic and adjust the time.

Android galaxy s26 one ui 9.0

I've disabled and enabled maps and cleared cache.

Major thumbs-up. I’ve been waiting for this. I think (hope) it will be major.

https://www.reddit.com/u/Bloody_Gleek/s/Hj7cUfuUq6

Why can't it just take me to the street it will directly take me to in a few minutes anyway? Not complaining, I'm going to take the other street ofc. I'm just curious and confused, jaja.

I was looking at a local rally event. Their site took me to google maps to show me the race paths. Now every time I open google maps on my phone it shows those paths. How do I remove them? Thanks

Is Google Maps super glitchy in general now or just in CarPlay? Spinning around in circles, has no idea where it is, etc. I’ve seen the same thing happen to others while also in CarPlay but haven’t tested just using the mobile app.

It won't let me input an image but whenever, I open the app or go to use it it's just stuck on its loading phase with no map at all just black or white depending what mode your in it's still got the search bar and all the icons and stuff but it's like it just won't access the internet at all and won't load the map.

Info:

Phone is a Motorola edge 70 fusion 128gb (Australia)

I've cleared the cache and the storage restarted the phone

Nothing.

I've cleared cache and storage then uninstalled updates and restarted the phone and updated it. Still nothing.

I've triple checked all the permissions and reset my networks. Still nothing.

Last time I thought I fixed it by updating some google apps in the play store and thought I got it working again from that. But I just updated my phone to android 17 and now it's broken to this again and I've tried updating everything and nothing works.

Is there a way to get Google maps to show all locations when not zoomed in alllll the way? It only shows locations that it thinks is important and wants me to know exactly what I'm looking for ahead of time. It's very anti adventure.

God this is so frustrating, it just “ends” the route. No prompt for “done” so i keep ending up one house short of my delivery destination. And my delivery app pulls up coordinates when i send the address to maps so i have to manually enter the address otherwise it sends me to the wrong place.

I wish google would put high resolution images of North Sentinel Island online.

I really want to see it in a resolution like they have in major US cities.

I wonder if the Indian Government tell them not to.

Anybody know why my map icons are suddenly in black and white? Its not my phone theme or light/dark settings, and new icons I add are defaulting to b&w too. Any idea whats up 🥲

I'm finding a recurring problem where Google Maps is not giving enough advanced warning to make a u-turn. I'm talking about driving on divided roads where the speed limit is 55 or even 65 mph. Sometimes, the route requires me to change directions by crossing on a drive across the median. However, there's no advanced warning. It just suddenly says, "In 600 feet, make a u-turn." When driving at 55 mph or more, this is not enough time so safely slow down to a complete stop and reverse directions. I've sent feedback about this issue, but Maps has yet to fix it.

I drive 35,000 miles a year and use Google Maps for every single trip. In the past couple months alone Google Maps has messed up over 40 times some have cost me hours in time. Google just tried to take me on a 5 minute detour to drive one block. It added 35 miles to a trip, to a destination i never entered, in the middle of my trip. Voice no longer works - "navigate to the nearest home depot" "okay lowes!"

"Navigate to McDonald's" "okay, em, see, donalds" (i sweark not making this up). Theu clearly don't care and are probably pushing consumers away so they can focus on ai farms. Fuck google.

After many years of working just fine, suddenly Google Maps stopped working. The safari page open OK but typing in a location results in nothing. Have tried all remedies suggested by numerous online resources....nada. Google Maps works OK in Firefox.