If you are unfamiliar, it's Google Maps, but you can customize your map with layers, colored labels and icons, driving directions, pictures, and even text with hyperlinks. I use a Google product called My Maps for this. Part of that research is finding new (to me) and exciting places to potentially go shoot. As a landscape photographer, I do a lot of research on my desktop computer. Downloadable chunks of maps, turn-by-turn navigation, labeling favorite locations, searching for public restrooms, and following trails were just a few of the tools I used at the time and continue to use when I travel today.īut what I wanted to share with you was the ability to combine the power of while in the field with Google Maps at home.
Every time I opened it up, there was a new feature I found, and I had a hard time believing that it was a free product, a sentiment I still share today. The more I used it and got more familiar with it, the more I was impressed with its functions and ease of use. I just randomly happened to find in the app store and downloaded it. I needed something where I could use WiFi to do my initial download and then be able to mark places and keep track of them for later use, all while hiking, driving, or just sitting around waiting. I knew I wasn’t going to have a cellular data service for my entire time in the country, so using Google Maps was not an option. I have been using a cool little smartphone app called since my first trip to Iceland in 2013. So, if you are a power user and have created multiple lists of hundreds of saved places that span many countries, the offline maps feature becomes woefully inadequate. There is a way to download a portion of the map for offline use, but this feature isn't intended for large portions of the map, like a whole country.
And if an internet connection isn't available, Google Maps is essentially useless. Photographers need marking and saving locations for a variety of use cases.
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