Do you know Google Maps has a characteristic known as Journey Time that allows you to to see roughly how far you’ll be able to journey in a given time restrict?
As of now, this characteristic works with Strolling and Driving navigation, however not Biking or Public Transportation. It’s additionally solely accessible within the internet model of Google Maps, not the Android or iOS apps.
Right here’s how one can activate Journey Time in Google Maps and what makes it such a helpful characteristic to start out utilizing.
How you can allow Journey Time
Navigate to maps.google.com in your internet browser (you don’t should be logged in together with your Google account), then hover over the bottom-left icon labeled Layers to open a menu.
Within the hover menu, click on Extra, then look underneath the Map Instruments part and click on on Journey Time to allow the characteristic:
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Joel Lee / IDG
Joel Lee / IDG
When you allow Journey Time, you’ll see a brand new panel seem on the bottom-center of Google Maps, and this panel can have grayed-out choices for choosing a time restrict and methodology of journey:
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Joel Lee / IDG
Joel Lee / IDG
Now click on anyplace on the map to set a beginning location. As soon as a beginning location is about, you’ll be capable to choose a time restrict and methodology of journey, which can then reveal how far you’ll be able to go in that point.
How you can use the Journey Time characteristic
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Joel Lee / IDG
Joel Lee / IDG
With Journey Time, you’ll be able to select the next cut-off dates when Strolling is the strategy of journey:
And these cut-off dates with Driving chosen:
- quarter-hour
- half-hour
- 1 hour
- 2 hours
- 3 hours
- 4 hours
- 6 hours
You’ll see a shaded area on the map that exhibits all over the place you possibly can journey throughout the time restrict through the strategy of journey. The shaded area gained’t essentially be a circle as a result of totally different paths could enable for larger journey in sure instructions (or be blocked off totally).
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Joel Lee / IDG
Joel Lee / IDG
Relying on the time restrict chosen, you might have to zoom out of the map to have the ability to view the whole shaded area:
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Joel Lee / IDG
Joel Lee / IDG
There are two drawbacks to Journey Time as of this writing:
- The estimate doesn’t keep in mind site visitors situations and solely represents a normal concept of the place you possibly can go. It could be inaccurate throughout rush hour or if there’s an accident someplace.
- Not each location presently has Journey Time knowledge, and a few areas could solely have Driving knowledge however not Strolling knowledge.
Regardless of these shortcomings, the Journey Time characteristic is fairly cool to mess around with and will be helpful for getting a normal concept of the place you possibly can presumably go given sure parameters.
This text initially appeared on our sister publication PC-WELT and was translated and localized from German.
