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Google Maps Now Remembers Where You Parked Your Car
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As someone who uses a bluetooth adapter in my car, I wish there was a way to set a specific connection as being my car so that I could use these sorts of features.
Great feature,but unfortunately it only works well with cars that has Apple car play,so I guess it's useless for me. When Google and Apple makes something like the old and working "find my car" apps that's been around since my 2008 iPhone,I might get interested. Some of you may say "get a CarPlay stereo", but unfortunately,that might only solve it in one of my cars,would look awkward with a modern stereo in my classic Willys MB "invasion taxi".
That's not a really good yardstick. It took Apple Maps 3 years to become functional, period.
not necessarily. apple maps will remember where you parked your car as long as your phone connects to bluetooth, whether you have carplay or not
No, it doesn't need Carplay. A simple Bluetooth audio or USB connection works.
Not sure what you are asking for. There has to be *some* way for the phone to know when you leave the car. If you have neither Bluetooth nor USB in your car, you'll have to mark your location manually (by tapping the blue dot in Maps).
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Not precisely. But you can add a note (e.g. containing the stall number) or a photo to the parking location.
This has been on android google maps forever. It's just now coming to IOS google maps although I find it pretty redundant since Apple maps already does this automatically. I don't use this much but it is quite useful when you park a few blocks away from your location in a city or in a parking lot. If you are putting down this feature you've probably never been in a parking lot with a few hundred cars. Knowing exactly where you parked your car is way better than wandering the general vicinity looking for your car especially if you have a very common car like a nissan altima or a honda civic.
I realize this is an easy target for those who have a need to make themselves feel smug about how smart they are and how stupid the rest of the world (or just America) is. Well, stories are legion about Albert Einstein's tendency to forget trivial details of day-to-day life. He'd forget his car keys, was forever losing umbrellas, would sometimes lose track of where he was supposed to go. He was practically the model for the "absent-minded professor" stereotype. He also worked out the theory of relativity, published over 300 scientific papers, and his work has made "Einstein" synonymous with "genius". While you're feeling smug about not needing this new Google Maps feature, would you say that you're smarter and more accomplished than Albert Einstein?
I live in a fairly urban neighborhood, and never end up parked in the same spot two days in a row. There are numerous side streets and such where I might be parked. I can generally recall fairly sharp mental images of where my car is parked. Unfortunately, the mental images of where I parked the last half dozen times are usually equally clear, and occasionally they get out of order. And there's rarely details in the images to uniquely distinguish one day from another (i.e. in every image I'm walking away from the same car wearing clothes, carrying a bag, and not being chased by zombies). And I'm often distracted by some problem I'm mulling over in my head on the way to/from the car. So, yeah, once in a while, I head to exactly where I parked the car... the day before yesterday. (If I park in some random place I haven't been, I have no problem whatsoever returning to my car, because there's precisely one mental image that fits the scenario.)
So yeah, I can see that there is some usefulness to this feature. I probably won't bother to use it, because I rarely use Google Maps (Apple Maps is decent and I can ask Siri for directions with one button press - that's a big win; I check Google Maps occasionally if I'm particularly concerned about traffic, out of the possibly unfounded belief that it may have better traffic info).
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I don't think it requires Apple's CarPlay - just a bluetooth speaker that the iPhone thinks is in a car (not sure how they work that out, my car's bluetooth system shows up as "Mazda", but I don't know if they're matching strictly on name or some other details).
The "Show Parked Location" switch in Settings says underneath it "Your parked car will be shown on the map if your location can be determined when parking. A connection to your car's Bluetooth or CarPlay stereo is required." If they're just guessing off of the name of the connection, it'd be nice if they provided a switch in each device's info panel in the bluetooth settings that said, "connection to this device always indicates that I'm in a car."
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this was added just recently in Google Maps for Android...
It's the Google app (Google Now) that had this for a long time now.
I drive a 2015 VW without Apple CarPlay and everything works just fine via Bluetooth or USB.
I know car systems vary widely but you definitely don't necessarily need to have Apple CarPlay for this one to work.
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Calm down, you can switch it off in the settings.
Plus all our info is being traded as a commodity anyway, you would need to move to a log cabin without electricity to fully get off grid.
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I should probably do something like that, forgot where I parked in the shopping centre at the weekend and took me a few minutes to remember.
Yes, its kind of new feature in the market from google and franking speaking I have used it its kind of very helpfull feature in crowded places. But it needs to be more accurate.
Google yesterday announced a feature to help Google Maps users remember where they're leaving their car once they've arrived at their destination.
The feature is simple enough to activate once you've parked up, and like Apple Maps, if you have your iPhone connected to your car via USB audio or Bluetooth, Google Maps will automatically tag your vehicle's location on the map when you disconnect it.
If your iPhone isn't connected to your car, you'll have to do this manually: Open up the app, tap the blue location dot and then select "Set as parking location" to add it to the map.
Tapping on the parking icon that remains on the map also opens the parking card, which includes options to share the location with friends and view pictures of the parking area.
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A button would be nice though.
Don't you dare post a link to Apple feedback!
http://www.techradar.com/how-to/pho...s/how-to-mark-your-location-on-iphone-1312199
This site shows how to manually mark your location in Maps, so that would do what you want.
There are also lots of apps that will do this for you. If you search the store for "parked car" there are several that mark the map with your location and you can enter notes like "space 12 level 3"... that kind of thing.
This could be a useful feature. I can remember a couple of times when I returned from a long trip and had to find my car in one of those huge airport parking lots. Sure, I had recorded the zone number but late at night, in -20 deg weather and when cars are covered in a couple of feet of snow anything that gets me close to my car is a plus.
I've tried apps like that but the problem is you have to remember them, find them amongst your apps, then wait for them to start up. I've learned (the hard way) to look around, when I get out of the car in a parking garage, for a nearby location sign, e.g. "F6", "B3", etc. Occasionally I'll just point the phone at it and take a picture of the sign. That actually makes a great clue later, because it shows the letter/number, in context (direction/distance to the sign), and you could even pull up the GPS location on the picture in the camera roll (in the details section).
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I love California too, and I'm glad we're doing away with throwaway bags. People complain about Apple's devices becoming unrepairable/throwaway items, well, millions of times as many bags were being thrown away (indeed, they're smaller, but it adds up). I've got a few Envirosax bags in the house and the car, for normal shopping, and a really tiny Reisenthel bag that lives in my pocket, so I pretty much can't end up at the store without a way to carry a dozen items. I think I've bought one ten-cent bag at a store in the months since the ban went into effect. It'd be better if everyone used reusable bags on their own, but the amount of complaining about the ban makes it clear that wasn't going to happen.
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Lol. I hope it's better than Siri
Me: "Come and get me"
Car: "I don't understand 'cone on spaghetti'"
This happened to me a few times when parking at an airport for several days or weeks while on a trip. Nothing worse than stepping off a plane late at night and jet-lagged and not being able to find your car in the huge parking structure.
Had an app on my blackberry storm 2 in 2009 that did just that, and Apple maps of course let's you drop pins. Good to see google maps catching up.