For anyone not familiar with Google’s My Maps, this is quite a nice and simple introduction tutorial.
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I have found My Maps useful for sharing bespoke routes with people who either do not have a GPS device or are not too savvy on how to display conventional GPX routes in whatever software (CoPilot, example) they might be using. Similarly, lots of bods use the basic Google Maps application to create their own routes, so having something that has its heart in Google, might make things easier for them.
Here is a sample. I created the original route in the popular MyRoute app. Then I saved it, then I imported it into Google My Maps.
https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1_w1896ZYMgrzMyAuKT0mVXO6zCfneKQ&usp=sharing
Google’s My Maps is simple to use but, as the video shows, has several really nice features to make it pretty powerful, if you want it to be.
Play around in it, you can’t break it.
PS The same YouTube account has lots of other basic tutorials, some of which I have found very helpful.
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I have found My Maps useful for sharing bespoke routes with people who either do not have a GPS device or are not too savvy on how to display conventional GPX routes in whatever software (CoPilot, example) they might be using. Similarly, lots of bods use the basic Google Maps application to create their own routes, so having something that has its heart in Google, might make things easier for them.
Here is a sample. I created the original route in the popular MyRoute app. Then I saved it, then I imported it into Google My Maps.
https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1_w1896ZYMgrzMyAuKT0mVXO6zCfneKQ&usp=sharing
Google’s My Maps is simple to use but, as the video shows, has several really nice features to make it pretty powerful, if you want it to be.
Play around in it, you can’t break it.
PS The same YouTube account has lots of other basic tutorials, some of which I have found very helpful.