5 Tips Use Google Maps During Christmas And New Year's Holidays

Google Maps can be used offline. (photo: dock. google)

JAKARTA - During the Christmas and New Year holiday season, travel increases significantly. If you're planning to catch a flight or spend a few hours on the road, you need to use Google Maps to help navigate you.

There's a lot to do with one of Google's map applications, which is definitely to help make travel easier, from quickly traveling around the airport to using the Maps app offline.

To that end, take a peek at some of the best app features that are useful for travelers below.

1. Navigation of Airport and Train Station

If you need to find a store quickly in a large mall or while you're in a transit hotel, Google Maps expands the Directory tab to all airports, malls and transit stations. This can help as you go around the airport trying to find a place to eat or buy souvenirs at the last moments before catching up to your flight.

The tab will tell you what time to open the destination and on which floor. You can browse restaurants, shops, lounges, and parking lots.

2. See the Busy Places of Entertainment

To find out the level of busyness of a place, look at Google Maps (Busyness)'s busy monitoring tools. With this, you can already trace locations, such as businesses, to see how crowded the chart is in real-time.

3. Plan Travel with Google Maps

Google Maps can map your vacation journey, but it can also quickly display flight bookings, hotels, car rentals, and your restaurants, so you don't have to bother looking through emails for check-in times and confirmation numbers.

To do this, open Google Maps, click the Saved tab in the lower menu row, then select Reservations.

4. Create Restaurant Reservation

Planning dinner with a large group for holidays can be a hassle, especially when you go during peak hours. Google Maps can help you book lunch or dinner reservations. Here's how to do it.

Open Maps, click the Restaurant button at the top of the map to view the list of places to eat. Select a restaurant, then you can order a table or check it with a waiting list.

5. Use Google Maps Offline

If you are in a place where you don't have a signal or want to save your phone battery, Google Maps can still provide directions when you are offline.

Before you exit the app, browse in Maps for the location you want directions. In the location window, drag the menu at the bottom. Scroll to the right via the tab and tap Download, then in the next window tap Download again.

Then, Maps will download the map to your phone for the area you selected. Now, when you're using Google Maps for directional instructions in the area you download the map from, when you lose your mobile connection, Maps will switch to offline maps to guide you.

Launching CNET, Wednesday, December 21, it should be noted, because you are offline, Google Maps cannot offer traffic info in real-time.