Rita El Khuri / Android Authority
Many years ago, Google created a light version of Android, Android Go for lower -end phones with slow processors and limited resources. Google released the “Go” version of some of its own apps, especially for these phones, and one of them is a map. On paper, there is no reason why you should use this bare bonus version of Google Maps if there is already a full -fledged app on your phone. But I always install my Android phones, even the most powerful maps, as well as Google Maps. Why? Map of the charges.
Do you use Google Maps Go?
1099 votes
Yes, all the time.
17 %
Sometimes
5 %
No, I don’t need it.
12 %
I had no idea that this app exists!
66 %
Google Maps become useless during any navigation
Rita El Khuri / Android Authority
If you have ever used Google Maps in the past few years, you will probably understand this claim without explaining to me: Once you launch the navigation, Google Maps are useless. Whether I am driving or moving towards walking, once I have a turnby -turn navigation, the app I can do nothing else. I can add a stop, and just. The search is almost useless, my leftover space disappears, and details of any place are gone.
To explain why this is a problem, why is it a picture: I’m walking somewhere, and I have seen a good restaurant on the road, but I can’t see its rating, reviews, photos, menu, or reservation. If I tap it, the maps would like to add it as a stop in my walk without allowing the details to be seen. No, I have to get out of the navigation, check the space, then find my original destination again and restart the navigation. It is unnecessarily hack and complicated. In addition, when the navigation is underway, there is no way to find the appropriate, full. You get a brief search on your way for the types of space, but nothing more.
Google Maps search with NavigationRestaurant with my driveTaping a place while walking includes a stop
However, if I am using public transit instructions (not driving/running), Google allows me to tap in nearby places so that the navigation is to see their details without interrupting them. , But I can’t find anything – not on my way. I am not sure why this is a contradiction, but that means that the entire app is basically useless, even if I am using the transport method.
If I am using the direction of step by step, I can’t see the details of a restaurant that I am passing without stopping the navigation first.
It is angry. I rely on Google’s maps because I live in a foreign country, in a city I have not yet memorized like the back of my hand, and I often travel to nearby cities. It is important for me to use instructions to go anywhere, but the same is to look for places, and the fact is that I cannot do this when my brain blows.
I swear that there was a time when you could go back to keeping your navigation active, but now it is not. For months, I did not benefit, then he hit me: Google Maps go!
Google Maps go to save!
Rita El Khuri / Android Authority
Google Maps Goo is a light, more basic version of Google Maps. It weighs around 2MB, only requires location permission, sends no information, and does not require a very fast connection to work. It contains all regular data data, but the navigation is very bare bonus (for example there is no direct guidance for transit), and it lacks some extra flourish, such as offline maps, timeline savings and search filters. But for example a secondary maps that I can open every time I can open the central app through the released navigation, it’s perfect – and in my browser is better than just bookmarking Maps.Google.com.
So, every time I’m driving, driving, driving, or traveling somewhere, and I need to find nearby places or find details of a pub, restaurant, or any exciting place I’m passing through, I just open the maps and use it. This keeps my navigation in the central app and protects me from stopping and restarting it.
Allows to check the details of the space in the maps and immediately search the navigation in the central app without interrupting the navigation.
I can easily find the details of any place, take a look at its rating and reviews, opening hours, some pictures, check the menu or website, and also save it in my lists.
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Unless the Map Team fixes this monitoring in the central app, Google Maps Go will have a permanent space on any of my Android phones. I just hope that Google will not hit it soon or stop supporting it soon – finally, the last time it was up to 2023. Sadly, it’s not good for it.
