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Has Google Maps stopped displaying proper geodesics?
In these two images, I measure the distance Washington D.C., the US–Kyiv, Ukraine. As clearly seen, Google Maps on the Android phone does not show a correct geodesic. For example, the true geodesic goes north of the British Isles and cuts through northern Scania, Sweden. The Google Maps “geodesic” c...
In these two images, I measure the distance Washington D.C., the US–Kyiv, Ukraine. As clearly seen, Google Maps on the Android phone does not show a correct geodesic. For example, the true geodesic goes north of the British Isles and cuts through northern Scania, Sweden. The Google Maps “geodesic” cuts through France, southern Germany and southern Poland.
Obviously this is not a true geodesic on a spherical Earth.
However, the distance seems to be correct (~7800 km). This implies the distance calculation is using the correct formulas. Is there an option in the Google Maps Android app that lets me see proper geodesics again?
Markus Klyver
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Sep 10, 2025, 12:33 PM
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Change Navigation Language Google Maps
I got a new OnePlus One recently and have noticed that the Google Maps Navigation Voice is in English (India) ( I bought the phone in India). This is very annoying and refuses to change no matter how much i change the TTS settings and delete the English(India) voice. It just redownloads and speaks i...
I got a new OnePlus One recently and have noticed that the Google Maps Navigation Voice is in English (India) ( I bought the phone in India). This is very annoying and refuses to change no matter how much i change the TTS settings and delete the English(India) voice. It just redownloads and speaks in that voice. It is just fine English (US) on a Moto X I also bought in India (App not Updated).So my questions: a) Is this a "feature"? b) How do I fix it?
I would like the English(US) Google TTS voice to work.
Dheeraj
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Jun 19, 2015, 03:59 PM
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Google maps walking navigation has wrong orientation
I'm using Google Maps on my Pixel 8a to while I'm driving and it works nicely. But the map interface is all messed up when I'm using it in walking mode. If I let the app adjust the perspective itself, the arrow starts pointing towards a random direction and the path is usually hidden out of view. Th...
I'm using Google Maps on my Pixel 8a to while I'm driving and it works nicely.
But the map interface is all messed up when I'm using it in walking mode. If I let the app adjust the perspective itself, the arrow starts pointing towards a random direction and the path is usually hidden out of view. This is what I see unless I fix perspective by panning and rotating every 10 meters or so.
**To clarify**: Google Maps shows my location and the direction I am heading correctly. It just doesn't rotate it's view so that the arrow is pointing upwards.
Here's what I (and probably everyone else) expect it to look like:
Is this a bug with Google Maps or should I be change some setting?
Here's what I (and probably everyone else) expect it to look like:
Is this a bug with Google Maps or should I be change some setting?
Can
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Aug 25, 2024, 07:02 PM
• Last activity: Aug 28, 2024, 12:02 PM
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Google Maps navigation is dropping during screen off
My Google Navigator now dropping navigation if I turn my screen off. Before that I was able to navigate by audio hints from my pocket, now I am unable to do this. Once I turn my screen off, navigation stops. Moreover, when I turn my screen back on, navigation doesn't continue automatically. First it...
My Google Navigator now dropping navigation if I turn my screen off. Before that I was able to navigate by audio hints from my pocket, now I am unable to do this. Once I turn my screen off, navigation stops.
Moreover, when I turn my screen back on, navigation doesn't continue automatically. First it tries to trace a route again and requires me to press "Start" button.
Power saving options are OFF,
Maps application has Location, Notifications and Physical activivty permissions granted.
How to fix?
Dims
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Apr 8, 2024, 07:34 AM
• Last activity: Apr 9, 2024, 02:55 AM
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Driving mode media tray missing
I have a Pixel 8 Pro with Android 14; for years I have used my Android phones for car navigation. Like many, I like to use my phone to listen to Pandora, Spotify, podcast players etc. While in Driving Mode, there is... or *was* a tray at the bottom of the screen I could click to view all of the avai...
I have a Pixel 8 Pro with Android 14; for years I have used my Android phones for car navigation. Like many, I like to use my phone to listen to Pandora, Spotify, podcast players etc. While in Driving Mode, there is... or *was* a tray at the bottom of the screen I could click to view all of the available media providers (everything presented with giant buttons to reduce driving distraction), select the one I wanted to use, and select from the selected provider which music channel, podcast, etc. I wanted to listen to.
Recently this tray has simply disappeared and for the life of me I can't figure out what happened or how to get it back again. I've searched through system settings and driving mode settings and if there is anything related to this behavior I haven't been able to find it. I also tried clearing the cache of some apps and many system services, but this has not fixed the issue.
Wondering if anyone has an idea what is going on and how to restore this UI element to driving mode.
Mike Strother
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Feb 23, 2024, 03:43 AM
• Last activity: Feb 24, 2024, 07:24 PM
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How can I make Google Maps speak the street names when the voice is set to a foreign language?
I'm running Google Pixel 2 with latest updates. You can change the navigation voice language in Google Maps via: hamburger icon (3 horizontal bars) --> Settings --> Navigation Settings --> Voice selection --> choose any language I have my Google maps voice set to French. However, it no longer speaks...
I'm running Google Pixel 2 with latest updates. You can change the navigation voice language in Google Maps via:
hamburger icon (3 horizontal bars) --> Settings --> Navigation Settings --> Voice selection --> choose any language
I have my Google maps voice set to French. However, it no longer speaks street names! I am using Google maps to navigate using voice only, with*out* a screen, while riding my electric skateboard. So, I really need it to speak the street names while I'm riding, but I want the voice to be in French. Any way to do this?
Gabriel Staples
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Apr 24, 2019, 05:45 PM
• Last activity: Aug 15, 2023, 07:23 AM
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Offline Google Maps with favorite places and POIs
I use Google Maps on my PC and have some favorite places added there. On my phone, I want to use an offline map. On my old phone, I used [RMaps](https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/RMaps) with whole city maps downloaded with [Mobile Atlas Creator](https://mobac.sourceforge.io/) and manually added fa...
I use Google Maps on my PC and have some favorite places added there. On my phone, I want to use an offline map. On my old phone, I used [RMaps](https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/RMaps) with whole city maps downloaded with [Mobile Atlas Creator](https://mobac.sourceforge.io/) and manually added favorites and POIs on it. Now I bought a new phone and found out that RMaps is no longer available.
I'd like to add favorites/POIs to Google Maps and make sure they will be available with a whole city map when the phone is offline. But I don't want to be somewhere and open Android Google Maps and find out some tile for that area wasn't downloaded.
The best solution I see is to download the whole map from Google Maps or OSM and store the map on the phone and use some app that's able to open this offline map file and at the same time sync favorites/POIs with Google Maps.
I tried OsmAnd, but when I create a POI on it, it fails due to some authentication error. It's not trying to connect to Google, because other apps are able to sync with Google Apps. But there's no setting to add login data or create a new account.
Could somebody suggest a way to properly handle offline maps and sync favorites with Google Maps?
Hikari
(151 rep)
Apr 19, 2014, 02:52 PM
• Last activity: Jun 30, 2023, 03:08 PM
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Google Navigation, screen doesn't rotate when in walking mode?
I'm having a problem using Google Navigation. I select a destination, click the "walking button" and rotate my phone, yet the display remains portrait. If I select "by car" - then it rotates as it should. I'm using the phone mainly as a cycle GPS, and my bike mount is fixed to landscape orientation....
I'm having a problem using Google Navigation.
I select a destination, click the "walking button" and rotate my phone, yet the display remains portrait.
If I select "by car" - then it rotates as it should.
I'm using the phone mainly as a cycle GPS, and my bike mount is fixed to landscape orientation. So is there anything I can do about this?
If there is no way to "edit a config file?", if not, is there a way to force the app (using a widget) maybe to rotate?
Thanks in advance.
JL01
(221 rep)
Jul 31, 2011, 10:01 PM
• Last activity: Oct 14, 2022, 08:04 AM
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Google Maps navigation stopped playing guidance
I used Google Maps navigation for times without any problem, on several different devices; currently I'm using a Google Pixel 3a, and it first worked properly too. But suddenly, it began to **cut EACH guidance phrase before the end**, like in this example (freely translated from French): > In 200 me...
I used Google Maps navigation for times without any problem, on several different devices; currently I'm using a Google Pixel 3a, and it first worked properly too.
But suddenly, it began to **cut EACH guidance phrase before the end**, like in this example (freely translated from French):
> In 200 meters, at the roundabout, take the (silent here)
This happened systematically during some days, after which it started working properly again.
But it started again cutting phrases some other days later!
This has occurred during months: working - not working - working - not working...
Till it totally stopped talking: visually the navigation process works fine, but **now the device never says anything at all**.
Obviously I controlled my configuration, which is correctly set to have the guidance playing.
Important precision: very strangely, **this happens for car guidance, but pedestrian one talks normally!**
I tried following numerous help pages from the net, without success: they all address either configuration settings or device malfunction, so **the proposed solution always concerns a general problem** (affecting any sound usage, at least inside of Google Maps), **while my problem clearly happens for only certain parts**.
cFreed
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May 23, 2022, 10:50 PM
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Using Google Maps in a car with a Hotspot and a cell phone with no sim card
I have a AT&T Samsung Galaxy 7. I have another AT&T phone with no sim card. I have a verizon hotspot and will be purchasing an AT&T hotspot as i am converting to almost full time RV'ing. Is it possible to use google maps, Waze, or any other driving app like that with my no-sim card phone through one...
I have a AT&T Samsung Galaxy 7.
I have another AT&T phone with no sim card.
I have a verizon hotspot and will be purchasing an AT&T hotspot as i am converting to almost full time RV'ing.
Is it possible to use google maps, Waze, or any other driving app like that with my no-sim card phone through one of my hotspots as i drive the country ?
I have another AT&T phone with no sim card.
I have a verizon hotspot and will be purchasing an AT&T hotspot as i am converting to almost full time RV'ing.
Is it possible to use google maps, Waze, or any other driving app like that with my no-sim card phone through one of my hotspots as i drive the country ?
Brian Wolfsohn
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Aug 12, 2018, 01:27 AM
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How to disable speed camera notifications in maps?
Google maps has recently introduced speed camera notifications, and I had the misfortune of experiencing these for the first time yesterday. Personally I find the audio "speed camera ahead" very annoying and distracting, and would like to disable it. I don't mind the little beep or the icon on the m...
Google maps has recently introduced speed camera notifications, and I had the misfortune of experiencing these for the first time yesterday.
Personally I find the audio "speed camera ahead" very annoying and distracting, and would like to disable it. I don't mind the little beep or the icon on the map, but I'm also quite happy to lose them if it means getting rid of the spoken announcement.
However much I search, I can't find an option to remove this, or any information on the internet about disabling this. Is it possible?
xorsyst
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Feb 20, 2019, 11:36 AM
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New Google Maps - how to launch quickly navigation
Recently released [Google Maps][1] doesn't have a standalone app for Navigation which was quick to use - only one tap and voice recognition to start. It takes at least four taps in new Maps to navigate, which is not good to operate while driving. Google Now is not on devices with ICS and below (stil...
Recently released Google Maps doesn't have a standalone app for Navigation which was quick to use - only one tap and voice recognition to start. It takes at least four taps in new Maps to navigate, which is not good to operate while driving. Google Now is not on devices with ICS and below (still majority).
How to start navigation quickly by one tap in current Google Maps? (Google Now is not supported)
Observed on: Google Maps version: 7.02 (700021001), Android ICS 4.0.4, Sony Xperia Active
Previous standalone app on left started navigation immediately after speaking the destination.
New Maps app on right takes 4 taps to small nav icon, edit, mike, start and doesn't show alternatives if voice recognition is poor.
Previous standalone app on left started navigation immediately after speaking the destination.
New Maps app on right takes 4 taps to small nav icon, edit, mike, start and doesn't show alternatives if voice recognition is poor.
HoursFrom.World
(185 rep)
Aug 13, 2013, 11:21 AM
• Last activity: Dec 1, 2021, 08:04 PM
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New Android maps - how to show navigation without destination
Older version of Google Maps for android had a separate Navigation app, in it I could either set a destination for guided navigation or simple select "Display map" with would always show my GPS location as I travel (streets, turns etc.) With recently updated map app, I can either see my static locat...
Older version of Google Maps for android had a separate Navigation app, in it I could either set a destination for guided navigation or simple select "Display map" with would always show my GPS location as I travel (streets, turns etc.)
With recently updated map app, I can either see my static location on the map or choose destination for navigation.
How do I simple display dynamic navigation map that would display my current location as I drive?
Comfortably Numb
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Aug 12, 2013, 03:00 PM
• Last activity: Sep 30, 2021, 06:58 PM
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How does Google Maps Navigation know you are in a tunnel when it switches to night mode?
I suppose this isn't exactly a new feature but it is new to me since I don't travel through tunnels very often. What exactly is the software using when it decides to switch over to night mode when in a tunnel? GPS Location? A light sensor? A combination of both?
I suppose this isn't exactly a new feature but it is new to me since I don't travel through tunnels very often. What exactly is the software using when it decides to switch over to night mode when in a tunnel? GPS Location? A light sensor? A combination of both?
JC5577
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Sep 30, 2012, 06:43 PM
• Last activity: Sep 12, 2021, 02:53 PM
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Does google maps personalize the walking time to your destination?
Google maps has a lot of data about how far and how fast you move around. When you search for a walking route to your destination is the app calculating the walking time based on your average walking speed?
Google maps has a lot of data about how far and how fast you move around. When you search for a walking route to your destination is the app calculating the walking time based on your average walking speed?
curioso
(163 rep)
Jan 14, 2021, 08:03 AM
• Last activity: Jan 18, 2021, 08:54 PM
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Google Assistant routine only executing first command?
I have a Google Assistant routine with 2 custom actions: `Navigate to home` and `Play Spotify music`. For some reason, only the first action ever completes when I execute the routine via voice command. If I swap the actions around, the first one always completes. So if I have playing music first, it...
I have a Google Assistant routine with 2 custom actions:
Navigate to home and Play Spotify music.
For some reason, only the first action ever completes when I execute the routine via voice command. If I swap the actions around, the first one always completes. So if I have playing music first, it plays music but does not navigate. Vice versa, if I have navigating first, it navigates but does not play music.
Any way to fix this?
Adam Thompson
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Dec 30, 2020, 10:08 PM
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Is it possible to get assistant voice on Android Auto sounding good without data?
I don't use data to use AA (I have offline Spotify and offline Maps) for the most part. As a result the assistant voice sounds like a robot from the 1970s. Anyway to "download" the good assistant voices or force Android Auto to sound good? I have tried to set the voice sampling in Android Auto up to...
I don't use data to use AA (I have offline Spotify and offline Maps) for the most part.
As a result the assistant voice sounds like a robot from the 1970s.
Anyway to "download" the good assistant voices or force Android Auto to sound good?
I have tried to set the voice sampling in Android Auto up to 48kHz.
Adam Thompson
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Dec 20, 2020, 05:15 PM
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Android Auto poor voice quality?
I am using Android Auto to navigate via Maps, and it works fine. However, the voice quality is much worse than if I use Google Maps and connect my phone via Bluetooth. I have tried enabling 48KHz Guidance Audio Sample Rate in the developer settings, but it does not make a difference.
I am using Android Auto to navigate via Maps, and it works fine. However, the voice quality is much worse than if I use Google Maps and connect my phone via Bluetooth.
I have tried enabling 48KHz Guidance Audio Sample Rate in the developer settings, but it does not make a difference.
Adam Thompson
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Dec 14, 2020, 01:17 AM
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"My Places" in Google Maps
I want to mark "My Places" from my Android tablet but can't find the option in Google Maps. Are there any alternative apps? If possible, how can I edit my earlier marked places and / or find their longitude and latitude?
I want to mark "My Places" from my Android tablet but can't find the option in Google Maps. Are there any alternative apps? If possible, how can I edit my earlier marked places and / or find their longitude and latitude?
Abhilash
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Feb 5, 2014, 11:03 AM
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How to keep Google Maps sounds in Phone, while calls in Car Sound system, while driving?
I am driving with Google Maps, while Bluetooth on. I cannot hear any Google Maps sounds if Bluetooth is on, my car stereo system is not playing them, while listening radio (I know you could change the input source but I do not want that). So I turn Bluetooth off because then the sounds of Google Map...
I am driving with Google Maps, while Bluetooth on. I cannot hear any Google Maps sounds if Bluetooth is on, my car stereo system is not playing them, while listening radio (I know you could change the input source but I do not want that).
So I turn Bluetooth off because then the sounds of Google Maps come from the phone.
How can you force all sounds from Google Maps to come from the phone, although you have Bluetooth on and connected to car stereo?
Léo Léopold Hertz 준영
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Jun 15, 2020, 07:17 PM
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