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Finding your direction using google maps, finding north using google maps, key takeaways.

• To find your direction of travel, enable location services on your phone and open Google Maps
• The red side of the Google Maps compass always points north, and you can compare the blue cone (which indicates where you're facing) to the compass.
• Tap the compass to lock the rotation of the map so that north is always at the top of the screens.

Google Maps is great for getting directions, but if you're off-road and can't find your way home, you'll need to improvise. Thankfully, it's possible to use Google Maps to find your direction of travel if you get lost. Here's how.

This will only work if your Android or iPhone device has a magnetometer that can find your direction of travel using the Earth's magnetic field. Most (if not all) modern Android devices have a magnetometer installed, as do all recent iPhones.

You can easily find your direction of travel using the Google Maps map view. These instructions will work whether you own an iPhone or Android device, but you might wish to calibrate your compass first to ensure your direction is as accurate as possible.

You'll also need to ensure that location services are enabled on your phone to allow for accuracy in pinpointing your location and direction.

In the Google Maps app, you should see a small compass symbol visible in the top-right corner, below the button for changing the map terrain and style. If the compass isn't currently visible, use two of your fingers to move the map view around to display it.

The red symbol in the compass icon is pointing north, while the grey symbol is pointing south. Your blue beam icon will show your current direction of travel.

In the example above, the current direction of travel is approximately east, as north is pointing towards the right-hand side. Using the compass icon as a guide, you can then move in the right direction, whether it's north, south, east, or west.

Rather than manually move your map to face a certain direction, you can tap the compass icon to automatically point the map view towards north and south at your current location.

This means that, as long as your blue icon has a beam that points upwards, you're heading north. If it's pointing downwards, you're heading south, etc. To do this, tap the compass icon in the top-right corner of the Google Maps map view.

Your map position will move, with the icon updating to show that you're pointing north.

After a few seconds, the compass icon will disappear from the map view. It will only reappear if you move the map manually, showing the correct north and south position to help you navigate.

With the map view calibrated towards north, you can then change direction using your blue beam icon to help you. As long as the beam is pointing upwards, you're heading north.

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How to Make a Travel Itinerary with Google Maps

Last Updated: March 14, 2022 Fact Checked

This article was reviewed by Stan Kats and by wikiHow staff writer, Nihal Shetty . Stan Kats is a Professional Technologist and the COO and Chief Technologist for The STG IT Consulting Group in West Hollywood, California. Stan provides comprehensive technology solutions to businesses through managed IT services, and for individuals through his consumer service business, Stan's Tech Garage. Stan holds a BA in International Relations from The University of Southern California. He began his career working in the Fortune 500 IT world. Stan founded his companies to offer an enterprise-level of expertise for small businesses and individuals. There are 8 references cited in this article, which can be found at the bottom of the page. This article has been fact-checked, ensuring the accuracy of any cited facts and confirming the authority of its sources. This article has been viewed 85,663 times.

If you’re planning a trip, you might be wondering how to figure out where to go and in what order. Luckily, Google has a free tool that you can use in order to get a better sense of your travel plans. We’ll walk you through how to make a travel itinerary with Google Maps through its My Maps feature. In a few easy steps, you can master an excellent organizational tool that’ll help you plan the best trip possible.

Setting Up Your Map

• Unfortunately, as of October 2021, Google no longer supports the “My Maps” app on phones. If you’re on mobile, you’ll have to use your phone’s web browser to access the site while on the go. [2] X Research source
• If you don’t already have a Google account, setting one up is a quick process. A Google account gives you a number of benefits, including a new gmail address. Check out this link to start the set-up process: https://accounts.google.com/signup/v2/webcreateaccount?flowName=GlifWebSignIn&flowEntry=SignUp

• For instance, your might name your map something like “California Summer Trip 2022,” and you could enter a description like, “Places to see and eat during two-week California road trip.”

• For example, for a California road trip, you might enter “Golden Gate Bridge” into the search box. My Maps will automatically direct you to its location.

• For instance, if you’ve searched for “Golden Gate Bridge,” there will be a white box that offers some information on the location, and even a rating from other users. Click on the “Add to map” button to send it to your saved locations.

• For example, you might fill in the description to the “Golden Gate Bridge” box with something like, “Spend at least 1 hour here—must-see location.”

• You might consider changing the colors of your pins to match how important each location is to your trip. For example, must-see locations could be red pins, your housing spots could be green pins, and optional places to visit could remain as blue pins.

Creating an Itinerary and Planning Routes

• For example, you might have a layer titled “Places to see,” one titled “Places to eat,” and one titled “Places to sleep.” You can then put sightseeing destinations, restaurants, and hotels you want to stay at in their respective layers.

• You can add more than one location to a single route. For example, if you wanted to plot a route from Big Sur to the Golden Gate Bridge, and then to Palo Alto, you can add all three locations to your route layer and create a multi-stop path. [11] X Research source
• By clicking on the three dots next to the layer with your travel route, then selecting “Step-by-step directions,” My Maps will create a set of directions for your travel. Handy!

• For example, by using My Maps, you might notice that seeing the Golden Gate Bridge, walking around San Francisco, and eating at a restaurant in Berkeley are close enough to all be doable in one day, while visiting Big Sur might be better saved for another afternoon. My Maps can help you plan out the most efficient trip possible, so you can enjoy your travels even more.

• When sharing your map, you can also choose the option that allows others to edit the map as well. With this option selected, your friends can pick places that they’re interested in as well, so you can have them all on the same document. [13] X Research source

• Although My Maps can’t be viewed offline, you can download an offline map of any areas you’re interested in on your phone. Using the Google Maps app, type in a location into the search bar, tap the name of the location, then navigate to the option “Download offline map.” [15] X Research source

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• ↑ https://9to5google.com/2021/07/20/google-my-maps-android-shutdown/
• ↑ https://support.google.com/mymaps/answer/3024454?hl=en&ref_topic=3024924
• ↑ https://support.google.com/mymaps/answer/3024925?visit_id=637744500327517491-717751493&p=lite_addplaces&rd=1
• ↑ https://support.google.com/mymaps/answer/3024925?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop
• ↑ https://support.google.com/mymaps/answer/3502610?hl=en&ref_topic=3024924
• ↑ https://support.google.com/mymaps/answer/3109452?hl=en
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Whenever you want to let someone know where you are, just open the side menu or tap the blue dot that represents where you are. Tap “Share location” and then select who to share with and how long to share—and you're done! You can share your real-time location with your Google contacts, or even share with friends and family by sending a link on your favorite messenger apps. When you’re sharing your location, the people you’ve chosen to share with will see you on their map. And you’ll see an icon above the compass on your own map reminding you that you’re actively sharing your location. You can change your mind and stop sharing at any time—it’s entirely up to you.

Next time you’re on your way or running late, you can share your real-time location and trip progress from navigation as well. During your next trip, tap the “More” button on the bottom on the navigation screen, and then tap “Share trip.” When you share your trip with people, they’ll see your expected arrival time and can follow your journey as you head toward your destination. Sharing automatically ends when you arrive.

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• You can use Google Maps as a trip planner through the "Places" and "My Maps" features.
• Both the Google Maps website and app let you save locations to lists, which you can then get immediate directions to.
• When getting directions, you can look up reviews and add multiple stops to your route.

Google Maps has become an essential part of any road trip. After all, it's a GPS, business directory, and reviews platform all-in-one.

But if you spend some time with it, you can integrate Google Maps even more seamlessly into your next vacation. Google Maps has a variety of features you can use to plan your trip and save any interesting spots you find on the way.

Here's how to make Google Maps your trip planner, using the Places feature, My Maps, and more.

How to use Google Maps as a trip planner

Use the 'places' feature to save points of interest.

Let's say you're traveling, and happen to stumble upon the cutest coffee shop you've ever seen. You want to visit, but don't have time right now — what's the best way to remember it?

Google Maps' Places feature can help you out. Both the Google Maps website and app let you save any location on the map to a list, which you can then easily find later.

1. Open Google Maps and click, tap, or search for the location that you want to save.

2. Find the Save icon , which has the icon of a bookmark. You'll find it right under the location's name, but you might need to swipe to find it in the mobile app.

3. Pick where you want to save the location to. You've got three lists to start with — Favorites , Starred places , and Want to go — but you can make a new one by tapping New list .

4. Once you've saved the location, you can find it again by opening the list. In the mobile app, tap Saved at the bottom of the screen; on the website, click the three stacked lines in the top-left and then Your places .

Tap on a location in your list to have the map jump straight to it.

Look at Google Reviews to find the best shops

Nearly every point of interest on Google Maps has a section for user reviews. Similar to sites like Yelp, these reviews can be a great way to see which stops are must-sees and which you can pass.

To check out reviews:

1. Open Google Maps and find the location that you're interested in.

2. At the top of its information page should be a star rating and a number, showing how many people have left reviews.

3. Scroll down until you hit the Reviews section, and you'll find reviews from other users who've visited the location. They'll include a star rating, a date, and occasionally a picture.

If you're interested in leaving a review of your own, check out our article on how to write Google reviews .

Make a custom My Maps page to share your road trip plan

Only available on a computer as of this month , Google's My Maps program lets you make a custom map or plot out a route with as many waypoints as you like, and then save and share it with others.

1. Head to the My Maps homepage and click Create a New Map .

2. You'll be given a world map. In the menu in the top-left, click the Untitled map name to give your map a name.

3. Use the search bar at the top of the page to find any location, then click Add to map to save it. You can add as many points of interest as you like.

4. You can also save multiple separate lists of locations to the same map; just click Add layer in the top-left menu.

5. To save directions between multiple locations, click the Add directions icon that looks like a curved arrow. It'll add a new layer that you can use to plot a path.

6. When you're done, click Share or Preview in the top-left window.

Add multiple stops to one trip

Driving from one city to another is simple. But if you want to make stops along the way — lunch, the beach, a mall — things get complicated.

Luckily, you don't need to start a new Google Maps route for every stop. You can create one navigation route that includes every stop from the start, giving you a clear way to see how long it'll all take.

1. Open the Google Maps app and start navigating to another location.

2. On the screen that lets you pick your starting and ending location, tap the three dot icon .

3. Select Add stop .

4. A third waypoint — labeled "B" — will appear. Tap it to choose your second destination, or drag it to reorder the waypoints.

On a computer

1. On the Google Maps app website, find a location and start getting directions to it.

2. Underneath the menu that lets you pick your starting and ending location, click Add destination . 

3. A new field will appear. Enter your third waypoint.

4. Once you pick a new waypoint, you'll be able to click Add destination again and pick another one, as well as reorder them.

You can add up to nine destinations on both the website and mobile app.

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Are you on your way to a great adventure or trying to escape from the heavy traffic on your trip? Google Maps will help you find ways and the most convenient route that will help you reach your destination in less time.

It is one of the most versatile digital map applications, offering a variety of uses, such as finding directions to specific places, new restaurants, cafes, museums, or other locations. Time owns internal traffic updates. Access, time-space, and geolocation with real friends and family. Search business names and reviews. And much more.

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Open the Google Maps application on your Android device.

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Step 2: Search Destination

Search for the destination in the search box and select the location.

Search Destination

Step 3: Select Directions

On the left, you can see Directions in the blue box. Click it.

Step 4: Select the mode of transportation

You can choose the mode of transportation like a car, bus, train, walking, etc.

Select the mode of transportation

The projected time and the distance to travel will be displayed at the bottom.

Based on GPS and mapping data, Google Maps provides detailed directions, including turns, estimated path times, and several routes. This user-friendly application simplifies finding new locations and getting to where you need to go.

Step 1: Tap Google Maps

Open the Google Maps application on your devices.

Step 2: Select the destination in the Search button

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Step 3. Choose the right Location on Google Maps

Select the appropriate place from the list of alternatives supplied in the instructions.

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Step 4: Select “Direction” from the menu

Tap “Directions” to view all available travel alternatives.

Step 5: Select Transporation

Decide if you would rather drive, walk, or take public transportation.

Select Transporation

Step 6: Follow the Instructions for Google Maps

Follow the detailed, simple directions provided by Google Maps.

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This feature helps us quickly find our present location, see nearby places, and decide which route to follow.

Step 2: Click “Current Location”

Click the current location button in the bottom right corner of the screen. In Android, it will look like a bull’s eye, while in the iPhone app, it will look like an arrow.

Click “Current Location”

The Google Map compass comes with a high-quality geographical map of the area where you want to travel. This is a valuable tool that can help you choose where to go.

Step 2: Click the compass symbol

Click on the compass symbol on the bottom right of the screen. Once the compass starts working, it will point toward the North.

Click the compass symbol

Point to Remember: When you move or change the map with your fingers, the two needles on the compass on your Google Maps rotate. The gray-coloured needle points towards the South, while the red one points to the North.

Step 3: Start moving

Google Maps will show you the exact direction you face as a large blue dot with a light shadow, representing your current location.

Step 4: Click compass mode.

As you tap the compass sign, it will point toward the North and display the alphabet “N” with an arrow, making it easier to find your way.

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Press Profile in the Google Maps app. Click on Settings and then on Sharing Your Location. To begin tracking, choose a profile photo. At bottom of the screen, there is a map that shows you exactly where everyone who’s sharing their location with you is right now.

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I 'm a nerd for maps. As a kid, they inspired me to want to travel, and as an adult they're my comfort reading. My colleagues at AFAR even let me make a podcast episode about them . But of all the maps I love (Middle-earth included), the one I spend the most time with these days is Google Maps. I'm betting most of you can say the same thing. I'm on that app every single day. I use it for work (for the research I need to do in my job here as an editor and writer), I use it for fun (I can spend hours armchair exploring remote islands in the middle of oceans), and I use it, most invaluably, for trip planning. If you're only using Google Maps for directions, you're missing out. Here are a dozen ways I use Google Maps for smarter travel.

Collaborate an itinerary with friends

I make Google Maps lists of everything: I have one for vegetarian restaurants, another for ice cream shops-I even have one that's a cocktails and cookies trail. (I created that last one with my cousin when we celebrated her 21st birthday.) More often, I use lists as a trip-planning tool. As I'm researching things to do in whatever destination I'm headed to (recently Argentina, Nairobi, and Manchester ), I create a list, add places of interest (museums, restaurants, shops, libraries, etc.) and share it with my travel crew so that they can weigh in on my picks and add their recommendations. While that's useful, it's only 101.

In the past year, lists have leveled up: Now, for each place listing, your friends can react with an emoji (heart, smile, fire, thumbs down, or flying money) and add their tips and suggestions into a comments field (e.g., "I read that dulce de leche is the flavor to get!" or "Let's go here after our street-art tour on Monday."). I especially like that I can customize the order of the items on the list; for example, I could make them match the path of cookies I plan to follow, or I could arrange our collective Argentina picks chronologically so that the list doubles as our itinerary. A fun bonus is that you can assign any emoji to the whole list so that all of the places show up in map view with that themed icon-say, the Argentina flag or an ice cream cone.

Walk like you know where you're going with navigation

Turn-by-turn navigation isn't just for drivers. Google Maps offers it for walkers and bikers too. Once you type in your destination, select "directions," then "walking," then "start navigation," and the app will speak out loud to guide you, the same as if you were in a car. When I'm in a new city, I use this with one earbud in so I don't have to keep looking at my phone (because I will inevitably trip and fall over).

If you prefer to look at your phone, you can follow your route in both 2D (that little blue arrow moving on the map) or in 3D Live View. In this mode, you point your camera at the real world to get the app situated and then follow arrows and directions overlaid on the IRL view of the streets that you see through your phone. (Another settings option allows you to tilt your phone to enter Live View rather than tap.) Even more helpful, the recently released Glanceable Directions feature shows a minimap and navigation on your lock screen, so you don't have to open the app and turn on comprehensive navigation mode to get the benefits (toggle this feature on in settings). Conveniently, it'll automatically reroute if you take a different path.

Use augmented-reality Lens to find what's nearby: shops, restaurants, ATMs, and more

In addition to navigating with augmented-reality Live View, you can also use an augmented-reality (AR) function called Lens in Maps to see what's around you, including restaurants, public transportation stops, and landmarks. When in Maps, tap the little camera icon in the search bar, then point your phone at the street, and you'll start to see icons on the buildings. Note that this feature works only for select locations, but new cities are consistently rolling out. In the meantime, all of this information is still easily available in the app: Right under the search bar, you'll see popular search categories, including gas, restaurants, hotels, and groceries-and be sure to scroll all the way over to the "More" button. Tap that to see a couple dozen additional, and very specific, categories, including ATMs, libraries, live music, hospitals, pharmacies, and even EV charging stations.

Plan your EV charging route

Speaking of EV charging stations, Maps has expanded the info it provides on electricity pumps. To find them while you're on an EV road trip , type or speak "charging stations" into the search field or tap the "More" category button directly under the search bar. You'll immediately see red pins with a little lightning bolt inside them populate the map. In the information card below, the app will tell you which kind of chargers a station has (fast, medium, slow), how many are available, and whether they're compatible with your car.

Check what's open right now

When I was in Manchester last year, my friends and I went to a concert that let out late, and instead of heading directly to bed, we wanted to go out for a drink and a bite to eat. That's when I pulled out Maps to check what places were still open around us. In the app, look for "open now"-it's one of the options right under the search bar.

Use photos to get a sense of a place before you go

Nearly every listing in Google Maps has photos now, culled from public reviews and the establishments' owners. Admittedly, this isn't so much of a secret-but it is a secret weapon. You can use those photos to evaluate hotels, to check if a coffee shop is comfortable for laptop working, to see if a restaurant is likely to fit your big group or your mood, and to view images of menus. A recent AI-powered update uses those photos to give more travel inspiration. Try typing something like "cherry blossoms," "public art," or "swimming holes" into the search bar, and the results will include a carousel of photos and videos culled from public uploads, under the headline "Discover through photos."

See the future, and plan for it

Google Maps' Immersive View is photos on steroids. Well, on AI. For more than 500 landmarks around the world (including the London Eye, the Empire State Building, and Tokyo Tower), the search results include what looks like a video labeled "Immersive view." What you're seeing is actually a ton of photos that the app stitched together to create not just an image but a whole knowledge roundup of a particular destination. Want to see what traffic will be like on the Brooklyn Bridge tomorrow morning? Want to see the view from the Eiffel Tower as the sun sets tonight? You can do it now, through Immersive View. A small icon in the bottom right corner shows the weather and a clock-tap it to change the time of day, up to four or five days into the future, and the view will change too: the number of cars on the bridge, the clouds over Paris.

Share your real-time location to stay safe

When I am traveling solo , I always keep my location services turned on for safety (and also to ensure that my 7,000 photos of street art, grocery-store finds, and random architectural details are geotagged for later reference). But even if I'm traveling with friends or family, I use real-time location sharing when I head off on my own so that people know where I am. This is especially helpful if I'm running late, because they can see my arrival time and use that to make important decisions, like whether to order appetizers without me. On the map, you can tap your blue dot to see sharing options or go to your account icon in Maps and open location sharing to choose who and what you want to share. Bonus hint: Tapping the blue dot is also how you get to the option to save your parking location.

Download an offline map

If you're concerned about eating up mobile data-or if you're going to be in a location where you won't have good internet service, Google Maps has you covered. Tap your circular account icon at the top right of the app and go to Offline Maps to select the region you want to download; it will work the same as the live version. Whenever I travel, I download a big swath of the area I'm going to, even if I think I'll have plenty of internet access. You never know when you'll be in a dead spot.

Use overlays to get more information out of your map

Maps are like ogres and onions-they have layers. To find those layers, go into the app on your phone or desktop and click the icon that looks like a stack of tiny squares. You may already know that Maps can show you a satellite view layer, a terrain view layer, and the default cartoonish view layer. (The local weather forecast is always available too-look for the small icon on the left side of the screen just under the search bar.) But did you know that it can also overlay public transit routes, traffic statuses, bike paths, wildfires, and air quality? The public transit overlay is one of my favorites, whether I'm traveling or at home in NYC-the subway lines are even correctly color-coded.

Discover the Easter eggs

You've seen Google Maps' little orange Pegman, right? He's the icon that lives at the bottom right of the screen in the desktop app. Drag him into the map and you'll see a street view of almost any location. But in some spots around the world, he hides an Easter egg. Navigate to Loch Ness in Scotland, and when you pick him up, he's wearing a Nessie costume. At Area 51, he turns into a UFO. And in the Galapagos Islands, he has a mermaid tail. Can you find any others?

Stay tuned for more AI-powered features in the future

Google is working on bringing generative AI into its maps , and one project that's underway is a feature that will allow users to ask questions like "What are rainy-day activities I can do with kids?" When the feature is available (expected later this year), the map will show indoor suggestions such as bowling alleys and movie theaters. Google's community of more than 300 million "local guides," as they call their contributors, are working to test this now, and I'm already lining up my questions: Hey Google, what are some places that cartography nerds would like?

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The Snob's Guide to Travel Google Docs

Virtual treasure maps. Elite e-tineraries. Password-protected pushpins. How the modern nomad aristocracy wanders the globe.

A year ago, while sitting in a café in Milan, I asked a recent American transplant to the city for spots off the beaten path that I wouldn’t have patronized during my fashion week tours of duty. What she did next surprised me. Pulling out her iPhone, she chirped, “I’ll share my Google Map with you!”

Now, I had been a casual user of “My Maps,” the feature Google rolled out in 2007 for the sole purpose of making navigation easier, and I had even exchanged such atlases with friends, but this one was curated by someone with exceptionally good taste who was plugged into a matrix of travelers with supremely covetable tips. As it turned out, I got a digital pushpin chart not just to Milano but to every single place I could ever want or need to visit— in the entire world . Hotels on small islands I’d never heard of. Vintage shops on secret side streets. Restaurants better than the usual foodie favorites. The kind of if-you-know-you-know places shared only with confidants, lest they be spoiled.

With one act of generosity, I was suddenly inside a whisper network that made Tripadvisor look basic and my own itineraries seem like amateur hour. Its members are not exclusively famous or wealthy; they’re a roving aristocracy of travel foragers, such as the digital strategist JiaJia Fei, who has been hitting the international art fair circuit for the last decade and has the Google Maps and Docs to show for it. While working at the Guggenheim Museum, she even helped create a publicly accessible map of installations around the world by James Turrell, who envisioned a sort of passport system where you’d get a stamp at each of his sites.

“I still refer back to this list when I travel to see if I can check one more off my list,” Fei says.

Virtual treasure maps may be tech’s latest innovation for streamlining movement, but they’re not entirely new. Long before Google’s office suite (around 300 BC, actually), advice on visiting foreign cities was handed out by friends, agents, experts, and, every so often, an indiscreet concierge full of local insights. Before the internet, intrepid globetrotters consulted their paperback Lonely Planets and Zagats, the latter of which began as a survey among friends in New York for insidery knowledge.

Back when Beverly Nguyen worked for celebrity stylist Kate Young, design houses sent around high-level cheat sheets for fashion week visitors. “Valentino would send out a guide that said, ‘Here are the best things to do. Make reservations here. Go to this museum,’ ” says Nguyen, who is now a sought-after stylist herself and the owner of a homewares shop. Social media turned everyone into an expert, and soon savvy young travelers were curating their own versions on Google Maps.

On it, users can flag places they want to go, star them, mark them as their favorites, or add them to a separate list called Travel Plans. They can then color-code each spot according to which category it falls into, leave notes for themselves, combine recommendations with those from others, and email the whole thing to friends, who can then email it to their friends. (Not so fast, though: Privacy settings can be turned on to prevent easy dissemination.) For many, collecting travel recommendations has become something like a game—gotta catch ’em all!—and the especially type-A will even create extensive Google guides to their own cities to keep up with the latest openings.

But apps are for beginners. Among nomadic connoisseurs, the most prized guides do not bear the signatures of celebrities or even reflect the sensibilities of boldfaced bohemians. These hot docs are passed around like contraband, because they’ve been around for years, edited, revised, and updated like epic poems that are never finished. Fei’s public maps for Miami, London, and Mexico City have thousands of views. Nguyen, who is proud of her guides to Paris, Naples, and Hong Kong, says celebrity stylist Thomas Christos Kikis, who counts Gabrielle Union and Sofia Vergara as clients, has a New Orleans tip sheet that’s hard to beat. And food writer Katie Parla’s Rome guide directs diners to non-pasta spots, say, Filipino or Bangladeshi meals.

“I rarely recommend that people go to the obvious things,” says Nguyen, who uses Google Sheets. “I’ll never say, ‘Go to the Ritz.’ ” Instead she’ll give you names of all the best Vietnamese restaurants in Paris, the phone number of a Loewe shopkeeper in Madrid who will take you out clubbing, and the coordinates of a no-name dive bar in Puglia. Twenty-two years ago Nils Bernstein, a food, wine, and travel journalist, received a Microsoft Word document of Mexico City recommendations from a local friend of his, and he slowly added to it himself. The list is now a 30-page Leviathan in 10-point type and perhaps the OG source of all the Mexico City guides out there. Bernstein is devoted to Word, but at some point someone uploaded the guide to Google Docs to make it more easily shared, and it has since been copy-and-pasted, whittled down, added to , and emailed ad infinitum.

“One time I was there with a group of friends who were visiting,” Bernstein says, “and one of them said, ‘Well, you know, that’s all good and fine, but I have a really, really, really good, trustworthy list.’ It was a close friend, but somehow he got it in such a roundabout way that he didn’t know it was from me.” He doesn’t worry about it ever getting in the wrong hands, or that he may have created a monster. “Most of my anxiety around it revolves around people having really old versions of it,” he says, adding that he tries to add updates regularly, but it can be hard to keep up. “Like, ‘Wow, this guy’s really lame. He doesn’t have all these hot new places.’”

Others are more protective of their recommendations, something I learned the hard way. That expat with the invaluable Milan map? The share settings changed the minute I touched down in New York.

Leta Sobierajski, an artist who works with the likes of Gucci and Comme des Garçons and travels frequently, particularly to Japan, will share her carefully curated itineraries only with IRL close friends (as opposed to her 100,000 Instagram followers ). “I used to have a map. I think I shared it with, like, two friends, and five or six years later I’m still getting weird requests from random people to access it,” Sobierajski says. “They don’t even email me. It’s just, ‘So-and-so-at-gmail.com is asking for permission,’ and that really bothered me. That disassociation—people don’t even really care what the curator’s interest is.”

To preserve the integrity of the practice, Aminatou Sow , an interviewer and New York Times best-selling author who was born in Guinea and grew up in Nigeria and Belgium, believes that recommendations should be earned. “I give up my very good ones only to people who I know will appreciate them and who have also given me very good recommendations,” she says. “It’s like all things in life: You can’t be a guest all the time; you also have to be a host.”

Today she keeps her thoughtful curation close to her chest, leaving personal notes for herself and intimates. “I make Google Maps for friends the way you would a mixtape, and I get a lot of pleasure out of that,” she says. “But what’s really magical is being bestowed a Google Map, and not having to ask for it.” That’s when you know you’ve really made it.

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Updated April 30, 2024, by Mohsen Baqery : With a new influx of Fallout 76 players immersing themselves in the Appalachia universe, it's imperative to update this piece with additional insights into Survival Tents. These tents are among the few paid items in the game for which Bethesda doesn't provide a comprehensive manual. With this update, this guide has been expanded to incorporate a section dedicated to moving and removing Survival Tents. Additionally, a table has been included detailing the utilities provided by each variant.

On Xbox and PlayStation, press Up on the D-Pad to open the Favorites Menu and then Y or Triangle to place the Survival Tent. PC players should do the same by pressing F for Favorites Menu and T to set up the Tent.

Like a CAMP , a Survival Tent can’t be built near villages or the bases. And it doesn’t automatically discard abandoned objects like cars or rocks, meaning players must set it up in an open, clear area.

Once placed, the Survival Tent is shown on the world map via a campfire icon that says “My Survival Tent.”

Unfortunately, players cannot remove the Survival Tent once it’s set up. The only way to get rid of the portable CAMP is by canceling the Fallout 1st subscription, which entirely erases the "My Survival Tent" icon from the map.

To move the Survival Tent, players need only to place it in a new spot. This action teleports the tent from its original position to the new location. Note that as each player can have only one active Survival Tent, relocating an existing portable CAMP will remove it from the prior location.

The Survival Tent in Fallout 76 is unbreakable. There is no way to tear down the structure after it’s set up, and players only have the option to relocate it. As for the good news, moving a Tent costs no CAPs or Atoms and can be repeated as often as needed.

It is a paid item. The only way to get the Survival Tent in Fallout 76 is by becoming a Fallout 1st member , which is a monthly subscription for the game. The membership costs $12.99 per month ($99.99 a year), offering exclusive features like Private Adventure as well as the portable Tent.

Unfortunately for regular players, the Survival Tent is nowhere to be found on the Fallout 76 world map and is not included in the campaign. But non-members can still fast-travel to teammates’ Tents at no cost.

On rare occasions, like the Fallout 76 Anniversary Event , Bethesda might offer the benefits of 1st membership for free. But other than that, there’s no way to acquire a Survival Tent without a subscription.

To change the Survival Tent’s look in Fallout 76 , open the Atomic Shop , go to Fallout 1st menu, and scroll to the Tents tab, where different skins are displayed. While premium players receive a couple of free Tent skins, others are paid items that often cost about 800 Atoms.

To undo the style change, equip a different Tent skin in the Shop and build it in the new location. This will despawn the previous structure, replacing it with the current one. Some of the available skins are Responders Medical Tent, Holiday Survival Tent, Raider Tent, and Settler Tent.

Currently, there are 13 Survival Tent variants available in Fallout 76 : Survival, Holiday, Responders, Settler, Raider, Abandoned Shack, APC, Rusted APC, Lean-To, Nuka-Cola Sheet, Enclave Mobile Relay, Flatbed Truck, and Gazebo. Although all tents operate similarly, the only slight discrepancy lies in the utilities they include.