How to plan your next travel itinerary with Google My Maps? | Aliz’s Wonderland
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- Are you a travel planner type like me? If yes, you’ll love travel itinerary planning with Google My Maps, which is a free easy-to-use site. In this Google My Maps tutorial, I’ll show you how to add your must-visit places to the map, personalize them, create road trips, walking routes and plan your itinerary.
COVID-19 cancelled our 2020 trip to Peru. So now, I’ll walk you through how I plan our future 3-week Peru trip. Hopefully, it can become a reality one day ;)
In my blog post, you'll find the Peru itinerary and maps, what I’m creating in the video.
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Here’s your complete guide to travel itinerary planning with Google My Maps:
STEP 1
CREATE YOUR 1ST GOOGLE MY MAPS USING YOUR GOOGLE ACCOUNT
0:46 Just visit the site of Google My Maps and sign in with your Google username. www.google.com/intl/en/maps/a...
1:30 Name your map and set the base map.
STEP 2
ADD YOUR MUST-VISIT LOCATIONS TO MY MAP
02:10 Search and “+ Add to map” your must-see places.
02:43 Add a description.
02:48 It’s also possible to include a photo.
STEP 3
PREPARE YOUR LAYERS TO SEPARATE TOPICS OR REGIONS
03:31 Tips and tricks to separate your layers if planning to visit a city or a whole country.
04:05 Research the city and country and add your selected places to your map.
04:44 Add new layers.
05:52 Keep in mind that you can't create more than 10 layers.
STEP 4
PERSONALIZE YOUR PLACES WITH ICONS AND COLOURS
05:58 Differentiate your places with symbols and colours.
06:08 Include accommodation, restaurant, general transportation...
06:45 Play with the colours and signs and see which individual style works for you.
08:47 Add points manually by “Add marker” pin icon
STEP 5
CREATE WALKING, CYCLING ROUTES AND ROADMAPS IN GOOGLE MY MAPS
09:26 Plan your self-guided walking tour - “Add walking route”.
10:43 All of these routes can have max 10 stops/elements. The stops can be rearranged and changed later, the route line can be also altered by dragging the line.
11:55 Choose “Step-by-step directions” to find out how much time will be needed for the planned road trip/walking tour. Google My Maps will tell you the distances and the calculated time between your stops.
12:20 Plan your road map - “Add driving route”.
STEP 6
TRAVEL ITINERARY PLANNING WITH GOOGLE MY MAPS
14:50 Think about the most important things before planning your itinerary:
- How will you get there?
- How much time do you have?
- How will you get around?
- What are your favourite activities?
- What’s your budget?
15:51 Plan your approximate travel itinerary. After seeing the distances between your pins, calculate which can be reached on foot or by public transport.
18:37 A big disadvantage is that you can’t create more than 10 layers, so if you’re planning a longer trip in a country, better to arrange your places by regions and days as I did at this 3-week Peru itinerary planning. You can just list the places in the order you might visit them.
18:41 Create a copy from your map
19:08 Depending on visiting a city or a country, rearrange and rename your places and layers
21:10 - Continue your research about flights and tickets
21:27 Find the perfect place for your accommodation.
21:48 “Draw line”.
STEP 7
SHARE YOUR MAP WITH YOUR TRAVELLER BUDDIES
22:50 “Enable link sharing” to send it to your travel partners.
23:07 If you want to plan the itinerary together, give editing access.
STEP 8
ACCESS MY MAP ON YOUR PHONE VIA GOOGLE MAPS
23:31 Access your created and shared maps on IOS and Android devices via Google Maps app by checking your “Saved” places and clicking on “Maps”.
Want to learn more about how to plan your dream trip using Google My Maps? Visit my blog and read my post called How to plan your travel itinerary with Google My Maps?
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just the right detail , at the right pace - thank you Aliz!
You're super welcome 🤗🤗🤗
Muito obrigada, Aliz! Estou planejando minha viagem ao Chile e suas dicas de planejamento do roteiro me ajudaram bastante. Sem contar que enquanto assistia me lembrava com nostalgia da minha viagem ao Peru em 2019 que foi incrível! Espero que tenha aproveitado sua passagem por lá =)
This was awesome and so complete!
Thanks Santiago! I'm glad you've found it useful :)
this is so helpful! thank you
Thank you :) I'm happy to help!
Thanks for your tutorial! You should have more viewers. Very clear explanation. I will begin planning my next trip!
Thanks a lot Alejandro :)))) I appreciate, and maybe by time I'll have more views ;)
Thanks a lot for this marveolus guidance Aliz. Help me a lot to plan my 2022 trip. Hopefully the pandemic end soon asap so we can travel to see the other section of this lovely planet. Muchas gracias
I'm so happy to hear it :) I hope you can plan many trips for 2022 and also accomplish them :)
Hi Aliz,
great tutorial!!
I am too a travel planner type and it's hard to find easy tools, so this looks a good one. During the tutorial I saw you have a list of itinerary with hours for each day - what to do, where to go, etc... where do you run your online schedule? template, app, etc..
Thanks a Lot!!
Gilia
Thanks a lot Gilia :) yes, My Maps works very well for me. Usually, I have a Google Docs and/or Sheet for my trips and I place the needed information there. I only plan hour by hour if the schedule is tight and not so flexible.
Slt❤❤❤