I saw a couple of apps awhile ago where you could tag your location (the gps would look up where you are) on a map, and then keep a record of those places. So if you go to somewhere cool but you don't know the address, you could mark it on the map and you'd be able to navigate to it later. Does anyone know the name of this app? I can't seem to find it now.
I know that the combination of Compass and 3Banana notes will let you keep geo-tagged notes. Can't you save locations as Google Maps favorites in later versions of Android?
The quickest is to open Maps, and when it locates you tap the little My Location dot or arrow. Tap the bubble that pops up. On the next screen tap the star. Now it's been added to the Starred Items on your Google account.
You can also from the same screen press "Share" and send the link to Gmail, 3banana, Twitter, etc.
The quickest is to open Maps, and when it locates you tap the little My Location dot or arrow. Tap the bubble that pops up. On the next screen tap the star. Now it's been added to the Starred Items on your Google account.
You can also from the same screen press "Share" and send the link to Gmail, 3banana, Twitter, etc.
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+1 wanted to post the same. Theres also a widget that displays your lat/long/addr with the ability to share it
you could also use the GPS Status app. you can mark locations, share them and let it show on the map. also, it's free on the market
Thanks for the GPS Status link.
And thanks for the tips on Google Maps, I didn't know you could do it straight from there! The only problem is I don't see a way to name your starred places, so you just have a list with a bunch of addresses and you might not remember what's what.
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Is there an APP that will search out a business, store, service, ect. that can accurrately save it to your contacts. I have tried White Pages, Yellow Pages, Tel Nav, Google, and others. I search for the contact, it gives me the correct result, and the option to save the information to my CONTACTS. But when I choose to save it, the information does not go into my contacts correctly, specifically the address. Live Search on my Vogue never gave me a problem.
You say you've tried "Google"--whatever that means. Have your tried the native Google Maps app. It supposed to be able to do this.
Search > Type business Name > Touch the one you want on the map > Add as a contact > Press Save
EDIT: I just tried this and it does exactly what you want. Any/all info aboiut a company gets saved to the correct field, properly formatted into your contacts. just click Save
NOPE .. Tried Google Maps, Google Maps Contacts also. Everytime I choose save as contact, the entire address including city, state, and zip goes into the first line of the address, leaving the city, state, and zip fields blank.
Various Google apps, such as maps, places, and so on have the option to save something found in a search as a contact. That would be great if only it worked.
For example, search for a local restaurant in Places. The result shows all sorts of properly-formatted data, such as name, address, phone number, and web page. When one selects Save as Contact, it does save it after a fashion. The name is all crammed into the First Name field and the address is all in the Street address field (with nothing for City, State, or postal code). The web URL isn't saved to the contact at all.
This makes no sense to me. This is a Google app passing data to another Google app. The data starts out properly-formatted. My Windows phone certainly has no trouble saving a fully-detailed, properly-formatted contact from Google Maps. The same thing, incidentally, happens with other Android apps that offer to save something as a contact, such as Bing (which also saved contacts perfectly on Windows Phone).
Does anyone have an idea how to fix this?
Using Cyanogen mod Rom, I used to be able to share my GPS location in the middle of the lake through Google Maps. I tried to do the same with the HOX but the sharing location option is grayed out. It looks like Waypoints are not integrated into Google maps. Anybody knows how to restore the functionality or if I need an app which app?
Thank you
Not sure exactly what you wanted.
If you want record your location/track history and share it through Google Maps, you can use Google's 'My Track' app.
If you want to share your current location to your friend, sign in to Google Latitude.
when you are in a remote place, Google maps need to use waypoints or coordinates to share your exact location. In the middle of the lake, I was able to click on my GPS location get the coordinates and share them through a text message. It was easy
My tracks or latitude is not what I am looking for.
That must be some kind of Labs add-in for the GMap which is no longer available.
The Laitude reports your coordinates as well periodically. If your friends have Gmaps, it can show your location based on your reported coordinates. But if they have to use anything else, of course it won't work.
Since google navigation doesn’t allow us to enter way points or custom routs I’m wondering if it is possible to develop an app that can add these features externally.
Right now I use manual way points, for example I have saved one or more addresses for certain contacts (Address, Waypoint 1, Waypoint2 etc..). When I start navigating I use one of those intermediate addresses instead of the destination, and when I come close to the first intermediate address (waypoint) I select the next waypoint manually and re-launch google navigation. But its so tedious, so I’m wondering if someone can develop an app that can automate this process.
Ideally these are the requirements:
Ability to read in multiple addresses as waypoints from a contact OR
Ability to manually enter start, destination and multiple waypoints and save a set of waypoints as a route
Feed in the waypoints sequentially to Google Maps/Navigation automatically when each waypoint is reached
Hi Phoenix, yes it has been years since you wrote this post. I hope you have already found an app that does what you need.
But if you haven't found an app that does what you are looking for, please have a look at the geo Location Marker app of google play store (Link : goo.gl/Z2Vj4d). It is not exactly what you are looking for, but somewhat similar.
You can save directions from google maps as way-points and use them offline. To save directions as way-points, open directions in google maps app, select share directions from the options menu, and choose geo Location Marker. The app will read google maps URL and save the rout as a list of way-points. These can be used for navigation with a simple compass and distance scale in the app.
Hope you like it :good:
The Google Calendar is an awesome app to help stay organized, but it can be too tedious if you get bombarded with emails and alarms every time you approach an event, regardless of importance. This is why I have spent a little bit of time trying to find out why it automatically adds these reminders to events. This cannot be disabled withing the Google Calendar app, so you have to use your browser to navigate to the web-based calendar by Google.
1. Go to https://www.google.com/calendar and sign in with the appropriate account.
2. Click the gear in the top-right corner and click Settings in the drop-down menu.
3. Click on the Calendars tab
4. Click on the Edit Notifications link next to your main calendar (Usually named with your First and Last name)
5. In the Event notifications area, remove all the entries. For example, I had Pop-up and E-mail and I removed both of these.
6. Hit the Save button in the top-left corner.
Now when you create new events within the Google Calendar app, they will not be set-up with automatic event reminders.