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• Places
: provides access to the places menu where you can
quickly locate and find information about a business or person.
For more information, refer to
“Places”
on page 147.
• Layers
: allows you to add information to the map:
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Traffic
: (available only in selected areas) Real-time traffic conditions
are displayed over roads as color-coded lines.
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Satellite
: displays Google Earth satellite image. Satellite images are
not real-time.
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Terrai n
: displays a topographical view of the terrain around the
current map location.
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Transit Lines
: adds transit lines to your map.
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Latitude
: allows you to see your friend's locations and share your
location with them.
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My Maps
: displays a list of your preferred maps.
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Bicycling
: adds cycling trails to your map.
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Wikipedia
: displays any Wikipedia markers and info on your map.
• My Location
: when touched, the location displays on the map
with a blinking blue dot.
3. Press to display the following options:
• Search
: allows you to search for a place of interest.
• Directions
: displays navigation directions to a location from a
starting point.
• My Places
: allows you to see locations you have marked as
favour it es (Starred Places) and the results of recent searches.
To add a star to a location, press and hold on a location and when
the screen displays the address box, tap the box to open the
details screen and tap the star in the upper-right corner.
• Clear Map
: allows you to remove all markings and layers from the
map.
• Latitude
: lets you and your friends share locations and status
messages with each other. It also lets you send instant messages
and emails, make phone calls, and get directions to your friends’
locations.
•More
: allows you to select the following additional options:
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Labs
: this is a testing ground for experimental features that aren’t
ready for primetime. They may change, break or disappear at any
time. Click on a Lab to enable or disable it.
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Cache Settings
: allows you to set options to pre-fetch map tiles when
not using WiFi and to clear the cache that holds the map tiles.
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Help
: displays the Google Maps for Android Help web page.
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Terms, Privacy & Notices
: displays the Terms and Conditions,
Privacy Policy, o r Legal Notices information. Select the desired
information from the pop-up menu.
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About
: displays general information about Google maps such as
Version, Platform, Locale, Total data sent, Total data received, Free
memory, etc.
