ExpressBasics: How to share your Live Location with Google Maps

ExpressBasics: How to share your Live Location with Google Maps

Sharing your live location with WhatsApp is easy and quite convenient, but you can’t use it to enter navigation if you want to drive or walk to where your friend is. Rather, users must rely solely on the visual aid provided by WhatsApp’s in-app map-view. Instead, if you share your Live Location directly via Google […]

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Google Street View comes to India, with data from local partners 

Google Street View comes to India, with data from local partners 

A decade after it was prevented from capturing data for its Street View services, Google has launched its 360-degree interactive panorama feature for 10 Indian cities with data from local partners Tech Mahindra and Mumbai-based Genesis International. This has been made possible by the new National Geospatial Policy, 2021, which lets local companies collect this […]

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Railways turns to Google Maps to allot nearer exam centres for candidates

Railways turns to Google Maps to allot nearer exam centres for candidates

The Railways is tapping Google Maps to match the candidates location with the exam centre’s location The Railways is tapping Google Maps to match the candidates location with the exam centre’s location For the first time, the Railways will leverage ‘Google maps’ to ensure that almost all the candidates are allotted an examination centre within […]

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ExpressBasics: How to save your parking location on Google Maps

ExpressBasics: How to save your parking location on Google Maps

Google Maps has a very handy feature called Save Parking Location that lets you quickly drop a marker on the spot where you left your car, bike or any other vehicle, and navigate back to it from pretty much anywhere. This saves you from having to find your vehicle manually in case you forgot where […]

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