Google Maps can help plan your entire trip for you and beyond if you're hip to all these time-saving shortcuts.

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Enter an address in Google Maps, tap Directions, and follow the blue dot to your destination. It reliably gets you from point A to point B. However, I've noticed that the moment people try something ...

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We’ve all pulled up Street View on Google Maps to show a friend what our childhood home looked like, or dropped that little person icon onto the streets of Paris to see if we booked a hotel in a cool ...