I've made a sample map available here for you to check out. You can share the map, either with individuals or your organization, or publicly:.For instance if you wanted to mark a bunch of different kinds of locations on a map, you could group them into layers so that you could easily focus on one kind of thing at a time. Layers are useful because you can pick and choose which ones are visible. Just click on 'Untitled map' and change it. You are now in 'Google My Maps' which you can tell because it's even embedded on the map itself, as shown below:įrom here, finally, you can create your own map. I mean, it's not like it's hidden away behind half a dozen different menus or something.Ĭlicking on Maps will show you something like this:Ĭlick 'CREATE MAP'!!!!! This should open a new tab/window in your browser which you may never have seen before. We want to open the far right tab, though:Īside: I don't know how I ever missed this feature about creating your own maps. If you're anything like me, you may be surprised that there are so many things you can do with maps that are hidden away behind this menu!įrom here you can set your home address and work address and save other locations.

Next, click on the menu icon (hamburger, 3 horizontal lines): You may want to do something similar, so here's how.

And yet, somehow I only recently learned how to create my own maps with my own pins that I can save and share and collaborate with others on. Being able to zoom into almost any location on Earth is amazing.

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