I was having the same issue but I think it's hard to notice during his instruction, but if you "right click" and select "Add a destination" it creates those "white dots" he refers to and then actually adds the specific stops/streets to the route. You'll be limited on the number of destinations you can add, but this should assist in maintaining your custom route.
@@Jamswoof Yes, but there are limitations (number of destinations), it's messy, you don't get an arrival time for your final destination, and it's dangerous (or can be) when actually using on the road. Basically a hot mess.
Set your start point and end point in the app then click on the three dots to the right and it has several different options for editing your trip and stops.
Is there any way to customize a route without adding stops so it doesn't keep rerouting you for stop B or C unless you edit the route while you're driving?
This whole thing does NOT work when sent to a smartphone. Known bug. I spent an hour creating a custom map, sent it to friends, and Google automatically changes my custom map to one that goes the shortest way. Why they won't fix this is beyond me.
They were too busy wiping away Hangouts so everyone could get on the shitty Google Chat which sucks, especially when they got rid of all the cool and funny stickers. My $0.02.
I love how at :11 it shows Waze, not google maps. And, just as the video shows at 1:50, you can't send custom maps to your phone, it's shows a yellow triangle that plainly states "dragging does not effect sent route. You can create an intricate custom route on your PC but when you send it to your phone, it goes back to the default route google chooses.
I've learned to memorize places along my preferred routes, and have GMaps navigate to those places step-by-step (or I'll get rerouted). The only thing GMaps does really right (most times) is the speed limit. I'm considering finding paper maps 😒
You can select 'avoid highways' and it'll do a better job of bypassing the highways, for sure. I do it all the time with satisfactory results. There's always times when it's not so great, though.
this is exactly why i’m here! I got my license 2 months ago but i need to go to and from work. I’m trying so hard to avoid busy roads and traffic but it keeps relocating to those locations and it’s infuriating
@@Miloboa agreed ! My work is near a pretty busy area and it’s so frustrating the amount of times I’ve almost got into a wreck bc people don’t pay attention !
@@Miloboa The "eco" route setting in my car's gps sends me on backroads constantly. I would honestly not advice you to take this option, though, since you just got your license: a lot of these backroads are extremely narrow, feature lots of steep turns, random hills where visibility ahead suddenly disappears, etc., which might cause you great panic and even put you in dangerous situations
The original Map Blast and MapQuest from over 20 years ago would allow you to completely draw your own map on the computer, and then you could print it out. This was with back roads and other roadways as long as it registered on the map. I'm really surprised MapQuest and map blast have never made their own do-it-yourself route program app
Google maps is a hot garbage. I planned a route sent to my phone and voila the app reverted all the changes I made. I can't believe that the most popular map can't f*cking do simple things like route planning.
Maps will still take you where IT wants you to go! We all know how to plug in destinations already! WE WANT TO CHOOSE THE ROUTE WE WANT TO GO, SAVE IT, AND DELETE ALL THE OTHER BS. Back to old time reading a map and writing down the route I guess.
I love how Google maps rotates and disorients me when pulling up to the address. Nothing like watching my map spin in circles and tell me I've arrived 3 hourse early. 5 stars as always google. So smart you are
There are a million videos / tutorials of creating and sending a route to your phone. How do you actually USE it? There's no start button to allow navigation along the route. Without being able to navigate, I don't see any value in this "feature". Maybe if you're walking or biking and can manually follow along the steps, but not driving solo.
This is great because I find that Google maps takes roundabout ways and back streets. When I am traveling in an unfamiliar area I want to stay on the interstates and surface streets. I don't want to be driving on back streets when I don't half know where I am.
Its 2023 and I still cannot create a custom map with Google Maps. Its just one hot mess, even when adding destinations. I would like to create a custom bike route. Any suggestions on what I can use because google maps is not cutting it. Such a disappointment.
I planned the perfect route and once sent to phone it went back to default. The only thing I could do was print my directions from the correct route I planned off the computer, kind of sucks but better than nothing😕
Absolutely, same here. That’s why I clicked on this. I hate getting rerouted. But this video gave me nothing. I’m starting to think I should change off of Google Maps and use something else. It’s super frustrating.
I was able to create a custom route and sent it by text and email as described however the text never came through and the email route didn't include my changes just the added destination point not the other routing preferences I added myself. If it worked as described it would be such a game changer for me as a truck driver I can plan everything on the desktop and store the route, then recall it on my phone when I need it! That would be awesome!! Too bad it doesn't work that way for me. Ive trying trouble shooting by ensuring notifications are on and all but I'm buffalo'd
I'm a truck driver, too. I can't get it to work, either. I can almost get it to work with my Garmin GPS but it won't allow certain changes. Yeah, it doesn't help to edit the route on my laptop but then not be able to keep the edits when I send it to my phone.
@@HowellUnderground This is the exact issue I'm also experiencing. I'm a new small truck driver in London, UK and can't seem to save a route to be used later, avoiding bridges and narrow roads. It's been a nightmare in some instances.
Same issue. I think the solution would be to create GPX files (I have yet to figure out, how) , which can then be used on an APP called 'gpx viewer' I have to try it though. I just joined a group of motorcycle riders and they regularly use the GPX files. GPX files can be converted to KLM which is google maps native format, but I have been told that besides KLM files, GPX files can also be directedly imported into google maps, using 'my google maps', which is a collection of your personal / custom maps.
I was having the same issue but I think it's hard to notice during his instruction, but if you "right click" and select "Add a destination" it creates those "white dots" he refers to and then actually adds the specific stops/streets to the route. You'll be limited on the number of destinations you can add, but this should assist in maintaining your custom route.
I was having the same issue but I think it's hard to notice during his instruction, but if you "right click" and select "Add a destination" it creates those "white dots" he refers to and then actually adds the specific stops/streets to the route. You'll be limited on the number of destinations you can add, but this should assist in maintaining your custom route.
@@williamcassam to be honest I do not remember exactly I'll have to try it again on my computer and let you know. I think sometimes it changes depending on how you share the route. Try finding different ways to get it to your phone like copying the link and texting it to yourself, saving the route in maps, etc. I'll get back to you and let you know for sure my exact steps
@@williamcassam so I tried it only on my phone and the key I think is adding in "stops" to your route. If you add enough stops in the right points it should always send you the way you want to go. Had no issues sharing the link with myself, closing the app, opening the link and getting the same route. If you don't have actual stops I'm not sure if it will work. It could be as well that it didn't work from my computer to my phone and that I only used my phone the first time. Sometimes platforms like desktop and mobile have different features so maybe that's what's messing up you're route. I really don't remember my exact steps the first time when I did it on the computer but creating a route by adding stops on my phone worked for sure.
@@williamcassam also, as someone mentioned below, if you're "shaping" your route and then share it, it reverts back to it's default path. But if you force maps to go down a specific street by adding a "stop" in the middle of that street, then maps has no choice but to route you to that point and take that street. So the key is just adding in enough "stops"/adding destinations
This technique did not work for me. The custom route I made & sent to my phone did not work. The link should have sent my custom route, but instead it sent the shortest route. Also, on a smart phone you can not alter the white dots. All you can do is add stops. If you add Stops to your route, you have to interact with you phone and tell it to proceed or continue...as it thinks you actually want to stop there. If riding a motorcycle like I was, this means stopping and fumbling with your phone to proceed. Fail.
This video does NOT show how to plan a route, send it to your phone, and have it open on your car's Nav system (Ford Sync 3) for my car the way you planned it. Like tons of others have written, Google maps defaults to what IT thinks is the way to get from A to B or wherever.
Something that should be so simple is impossible in this day and age! I want to decide on a route ahead of time, save it, then open the route I CHOSE when I leave.
I have tried this but I found issues here... Once the planned route is set out correctly the option is taken to send this to my smart phone in the form of an SMS. It is then used in my car with Android Car play. To use it in the car I have to connect the phone to the infotainment system via usb, the phone is wifi connected and location is enabled. However the moment I activate the route and start to drive, Google Maps ignores my planned map and decides to constantly take the route it decides ... any suggestions?
I was having the same issue but I think it's hard to notice during his instruction, but if you "right click" and select "Add a destination" it creates those "white dots" he refers to and then actually adds the specific stops/streets to the route. You'll be limited on the number of destinations you can add, but this should assist in maintaining your custom route.
One thing I have an issue with google maps app is that it doesn't let you customise your own route on smartphones. You have to go on some low quality google maps customizer thing that doesn't even have half the features from the app
Great for looking at a route on your pc. Completely unusable to be used as a GPS. It only sends the starting point and destination to your phone, then auto-completes the route the same as it always does. I guess you have to trick it by adding destinations along your custom route, but then you're just fighting with it (and I doubt that will work). Lame.
For those here to use back roads and avoid highways just try using the bike option instead of car it'll give you shortest route not on highways 👍Google needs to change it back to where you can click the route you wanna take... Super wack they changed it
there is a method. Just click on the bigger white dots of that planed trip and click on the coordinates. Then paste them into an other window of G Maps. That's how i planed my routes. You maybe don't get the best result, but it's was my best shot. Have fun ;)
I was having the same issue but I think it's hard to notice during his instruction, but if you "right click" and select "Add a destination" it creates those "white dots" he refers to and then actually adds the specific stops/streets to the route. You'll be limited on the number of destinations you can add, but this should assist in maintaining your custom route.
Browser Maps has had this feature forever. It's still incredible that Android version doesn't have this ability. Yes you can add stops but that is much harder, not obvious AT ALL (there is no option to do that, you have to just know to search for another place which you can then add if you know the procedure.) Finally, you can't compare the time savings since the only time shown is the time to the FIRST stop. Just don't understand why this is still not a phone feature.
basically no one has created a way of me doing what i want to do yet. Adding additional destinations can be very messy. As soon as this is shared to a phone google will constantly try and reroute you to its preferred route. All i want to do is create my route and transfer it to my phone. You'd think this would be a simple thing to do, but its not! If anyone knows of an app to do this, please share.
The Google gods want you to take the fastest, shortest route, to reduce your carbon footprint. Allowing you to make routes as you ask implies that you are driving for fun, and they can't have that. Seriously though, this would be a SIMPLE feature for a company with the resources of Google to add, so I can't see any other reasoning behind it.
Same here. There were windows programs that did this pretty well over 20 years ago. Don't know why you can't simply do this in apps such as Google Maps and Waze today.
I'm going to test out sliding up and clicking "remove next stop" after I've reached/passed the first stop. Or else it'll keep rerouting you or make you edit the route
Ok, once you've planned a roadtrip with multiple stops and send the route to your smartphone and open it in google maps, it doesn't let you navigate this route. There is no option to start navigating. I am not sure if anyone else has experienced this, but I have tried this several times and am unable to navigate/driving directions using google maps on my iphone
I'm trying to travel one hour within my state, but I'm not legally allowed to ride on interstates with my motorcycle permit. There is a road that goes 3/4 of the way in a straight line towards my destination with two short jogs on tiny roads in slightly wrong direction but nooooo we are going to route you way out of your way to get you on the interstate. Seriously I don't think bicycles are allowed on the interstate but when I click that option it still puts me on the interstate.
This does not work. You map out your route and when you send it to your phone it changes the route back to the quickest route not the route you mapped out. Frustrating!!!
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Hello!, but, once I made my custom route, how do I make Google Maps to "navigate" through my custom route?
I've been using this for some time now but the problem is that the app wants to keep re-routing you through different ways. Also, its exactly the same way if you do this on your phone...
Yes, you can open a saved map in your iPhone Google Maps app, but there is no voice navigation. Totally useless. Might as well print out the map and memorize your exits, rather than stare at that tiny little screen while you're driving to make sure you don't miss the next exit while you're in three lanes of traffic in a large city.
Exactly what I did. I planned the perfect route and once sent to phone it went back to default. The only thing I could do was print my directions from the correct route I planned off the computer, kind of sucks but better than nothing😕
It really sucks to have your preprogrammed route rerouted by a computer that takes you someplace you didn't want to go and that's why you created the route in the first place.
I followed the instruction from the comments too and unfortunately it does not work by opening the Google short link. Neither opening the long link, which includes the stops. It opens with the long link like having a slow old Modem connection, without being able to move anything. Embedding the route on a webpage shows the default route again. Turning the link into GPX, KMS fails too. The Google Map Router leads me by default through farm field which can only be driven by a Tractor. It`s even hard to walk there.
I drive a bus. We have routes for the city which appear on OUR GPS system but we also have routes that that don’t ie., school routes. I wanted to add those and it was good to a point but then the options ran out (so no, it doesn’t allow you to watch as much as you would like). This would have been more advantageous than looking down at directions on a paper that I photographed on my phone. Adding unlimited options would be nice.
How do you keep it from interpreting a drag as just dragging the map itself? FREQUENTLY - but not always - I'll try to drag the highlighted route to the alternate route, but the entire map just gets pulled, not the blue route. How do you get it out of "drag map mode" into "drag route mode" ?
I know it hasn't been long, but since no one ever pitches in to help anyone with questions on TechJunkie videos, AMOQ now. On desktop. You must locate "larger than point-of-interest" circles on the blue route whose flyover shows "drag to change route, click to remove". You may need to scroll or zoom. If still none, one or more may appear if you hit the left-facing arrow atop the left side blue pane (if you haven't collapsed it with the "collapse triangle"). If you SEE a larger circle, but dragging the route still drags the whole map, just click on the circle, then drag the blue route. If that still pulls the whole map, DRAG the white circle along the roads you want.
It's ok if you are planning a small route, but if you need more, something like 300miles, it limits tour customization for 9 or 10 rerouting. So it's rubish 😅
I wish we could draw our own route on maps, and if it gets enough likes, it could be a suggested route. Maps has put me in seriously dangerous situations! Multiple times! For whatever reason it'll take me on a "short route" through some extremely dangerous areas! When I absolutely did not need to go that route! Its even taken me off interstates and took me wayyyy off on some crazy detour. Luckily, I've gotten wiser, and I'll stop and say okay you crazy robot! whats your plan? And get back on the interstate. This is soo frustrating and a huge safety issue, as now I need to pay more attention to my maps than the road!
I have the simple solution everyone watching this seems to need; write down a list of your destinations and type them in maps one at a time as you arrive at the 1st one then type in the second one, when you reach second destination type in the 3rd, etc etc that way all the google programmers can focus on what is more important;what there pronouns are
You can also do this on your smartphone. Just click on the three dots on right top and say add stop after you selected "directions". Also to share it, just click on "share directions" after creating ur custom routes.😂
Would this work for making a route for mail delivery? Or can you suggest an app that could? I'm going to be subbing for my husband on his mail route and am not very familiar with the roads and would like something to help keep me on track with the route.
1:38 this does not work, once you open that route with your smartphone, after you find and download a map app to open KMZ or KML files, Google will change everything back to the most direct route, all your work will be discarded.
Driving from SC to Alabama this weekend and no matter what I hit, it keeps taking me through Atlanta. So frustrating. I do not want to go through Atlanta.
My google maps only allows me to put in 10 stops. However, if you copy and past the codes of two different routers you can merge so you can get all your stops on one map. Do you know an easier way to do this.
One year ago someone posted a comment how to create the same on a smartphone. Google doesn’t accept these suggestions. No wonder after sitting on AI Tech for many years after buying Deep Mind back in 2011 Google sat on the Tech for 12 years till Microsoft came out with Open AI. Now Google is scrambling.
only way is to add destinations, so stupid because i want to take a pev and literally look at roads by putting the guy on them and seeing if they are good then drag the dots and think im all done and send it to my phone and its back to square one. adding stops works, but should not be required, you should simply be able to lock the route in place. It is dangerous for people if they get re routed.
I am a bit lost I thought once I sent it to my phone that it would automatically show up in maps and offer directions...its just a photo of the route I created more or less
I was having the same issue but I think it's hard to notice during his instruction, but if you "right click" and select "Add a destination" it creates those "white dots" he refers to and then actually adds the specific stops/streets to the route. You'll be limited on the number of destinations you can add, but this should assist in maintaining your custom route.
How many Destinations or Locations can one add to a single Google Map ……….. ? On a single Route (an epic Trans-Africa Overland) I am looking to add >100 Markers. Thnx
It's a little more complicated but you can "add a stop" and rearrange them. That's the best solution I've found for phone only use. It's way easier on a computer I must say
@@Jamswoof Let's say I add a "stop" just in order to force Google Maps to use my preferred highway. When I drive past this phony stop, will the navigation automatically continue to my final destination? Or will it force me to play with my phone while driving or worse, try to re-route me backwards?
@@nyer82 unfortunately you have to play with your phone but it's only one tap of the "continue" button and you're on your way! It might only try and reroute you if you aren't following the directions whatsoever and start changing directions before you reach your first stop.
