In Google Maps, there are three map types. For whatever reason, the web version classifies one of these as a “detail” rather than “type,” but we’ll stick to the latter.

A cool free tool creates a heat map of your Google Maps movement data in no time at all. You can immediately see where you spend most of your time and where you rarely go.

The most obvious choice for location sharing on Android is Google Maps, as it comes preinstalled (and is available on iPhones, too). There are other options you can try as well, which I’ll get to.

Lens in Maps Originally called Search with Live View, Lens in Maps launched back in November 2022 for London, Los Angeles, New York, Paris, San Francisco, and Tokyo. Now Google is expanding the ...