Saving your home and work address on Google Maps has always been a nifty little feature. It’s something you can do on most navigation applications and it allows you to have quick access to your favourite destinations.
In a recent update, Google added a little feature that’ll add some pizzazz to your navigation experience.
Google Maps now lets you put stickers on your Work and Home saved locations. These stickers range from igloos to barn houses so if you’re bored of what your current house looks like, at least, you can now change what you see on your navigation app.
This is a cute personalisation gesture that I will surely mess around with at least for awhile, but pretty stickers aren’t the only thing Google added to their navigation app. Maps now also lets you add labels to your favourite destinations like the gym, school or underground bowling alley that you frequent.
Again, this gives you a degree of personalisation and customisation on the experience you want to have when navigating with the app, rather than actually functionality. This is because you can simply save a location by tapping the “Save” button with the golden star and it will turn up in “Your places” when you pull out the hamburger menu.
I suppose the biggest benefit is if you give a place with a complicated name a simple nickname or code via the label. All you have to do then is type label or nickname into the app’s search bar (for example, AMPM Cafe is labelled Mmm Yummy in my Maps) and the location will appear at the top of the search results.
Pretty nifty quality of life changes, but nothing too radical from what we can tell. Well, except the fact that you can change your house into a flippin’ dragon whenever you want to and that’s pretty awesome if you ask me.
