| Naming 'My Places' on Google Maps | smith.xander | 7/28/11 2:28 AM | I've picked up an android phone lately having come across from Apple, and as part of the phone am being encouraged to use Google Navigate which links in to google maps etc. It's quite annoying that I can't add 'favourite' locations via my phone any |
| Re: Naming 'My Places' on Google Maps | jwhitty5 | 11/23/11 7:35 PM | I couldn't agree more. I have tried to figure this out for some time. But I am beginning to think that we are the ones that need fixing since there is very little chat about this issue on the internet. Either way I would love an explanation from goog |
| Re: Naming 'My Places' on Google Maps | curt.jaimungal | 11/29/11 6:25 PM | I agree. I've been looking for this feature for months. |
| Re: Naming 'My Places' on Google Maps | teresaw | 12/1/11 9:05 AM | Hi everyone, We are aware of this mishap and are considering adding this feature. In the meantime, (if you are signed into Google Maps), you can always:1. Rename your starred places on Google Maps on your computer.2. Go to http://google.com/bookmarks, ident |
| Re: Naming 'My Places' on Google Maps | k89ccc | 5/13/12 11:50 AM | Thank you for this information! I have been looking for a way to do this for a while now. I appreciate you taking the time to post this. I would love to see this feature added to Google Maps for android in the future! Kathleen |
| Re: Naming 'My Places' on Google Maps | Matt Collins | 11/29/12 11:37 AM | One year has passed now and this still hasn't been integrated with Google Maps. I've taken Teresa's advice and labeled My Places with the names of the family member's I visit. However, when I type my labels in a Maps search, it does not pull up that |
| Re: Naming 'My Places' on Google Maps | Christoph Schmid | 11/29/12 9:11 PM | Also waiting for this feature for a while. Shouldn't be hard. Just offer an option to name a place in the same menu where you can star it on your mobile. By now I have so many starred places that I loose the overview. |
| Re: Naming 'My Places' on Google Maps | Dan Spencer | 12/13/12 1:27 AM | Also appears to be a missing feature in the new iOS version of Google Maps. It's quite a disappointment after the clear, easy to use, favourites list in Waze. |
| Re: Naming 'My Places' on Google Maps | Desmond Ling | 12/18/12 10:09 PM | A new problem seems to have occurred. I was creating Starred places using google maps and renaming them using google bookmarks. Previously I was able to see the names via "My Places" on my Galaxy Note 2. However, for the past few days, I was not a |
| Re: Naming 'My Places' on Google Maps | shrekjones | 1/4/13 1:40 PM | Thankyou, Finally found a work-around to this permanent Annoyance! I've been using Navdroyd instead because of the horrid limitations of Google Maps on Android. Navdroyd is a brilliant Sat Nav, but the Open Street Maps aren't as perfectly accurate as |
| Re: Naming 'My Places' on Google Maps | Jesse Bartholomew | 1/5/13 9:09 PM | Unfortunately Googles solution is incompatible with my Google Apps account. So since switching to Android 3 years or so ago I have no shortage of these starred street addresses for family members. This seem to be an easy thing to do but for whatever |
| Re: Naming 'My Places' on Google Maps | steanin | 1/27/13 3:57 AM | Hello.After renaming my places in google bookmarks (Chrome), they sync only into the maps' web site but NOT on the android phone (Samsung).Please fix this error and give us the possibility to personalize my places' names.Thank you.Steff |
| Re: Naming 'My Places' on Google Maps | Betty108 | 2/6/13 5:03 AM | OK, so it's not just me! I've been trying to figure out how to assign names to the addresses in My Places on my Android phone for some time now, and finally decided to search for a solution - and ended up here! Apparently Google hasn't figured out |
| Re: Naming 'My Places' on Google Maps | Abou Bakar Khan | 2/25/13 8:16 PM | I was worried about that.But finely I got that I am not only the one who is suffering when you guys solve this problem please let me know about that but there is one thing more in iphone 5 and nokia n8 no issues like that take care bye. |
| Re: Naming 'My Places' on Google Maps | Nancy Hundrieser | 2/26/13 2:38 AM | I, too, have been searching for an answer to naming starred places for almost 2 years. I have a BlackBerry (Torch 9810), so I thought that was the problem, but as I am reading the previous posts; I see it has nothing to do with my phone. It is very a |
| Re: Naming 'My Placernativees' on Google Maps | snakeyejake | 3/26/13 10:01 AM | Wow, i hve read all the posts concerning editing my places, i hve sent three requests also, no responce, throw us a bone once in awhile to gnaw on and fight ovr, wish tbr was a good alternative to their crap. Arrogant jakaces. So simple afix! |
| Re: Naming 'My Places' on Google Maps | demory88 | 4/23/13 8:42 AM | To everyone complaining about how easy of a fix this must be, and how simple it would be to implement, you're wrong. As a developer working at a firm with less than a tenth of the capacity that Google has, I can only imagine how truly difficult this |
| Re: Naming 'My Places' on Google Maps | Martin Kolodziej | 4/27/13 11:34 AM | Whoa, easy there slick. I think we all just want the same thing we already had and gotten used to using. Seems odd that this feature would just disappear. I appreciate the complexity of these features but Google can afford to fix it I think... |
| Re: Naming 'My Places' on Google Maps | David Dring | 4/28/13 1:49 AM | I have tried this, But doesnt always work for some reason. I have dragged the flag to the exact spot sometimes on map. Because i go to some obsure places, up unmade roads for instance. Then starred it. Then gone on google bookmarks to edit name. As i |
| Re: Naming 'My Places' on Google Maps | Gray W | 5/15/13 1:56 AM | I'm running latest Jellybean on a Nexus 4 and the steps below work for me. If I star it on the desktop browser and rename it, it won't push the new name to the map app. But if I ... 1 - star it on the map app on the phone 2 - rename it in the brows |
| Re: Naming 'My Places' on Google Maps | Bobby Culbertson | 5/15/13 7:35 AM | This Worked for me too. Stinks because I often search for things at the computer first. At least there is a work around |
| Re: Naming 'My Places' on Google Maps | Desmond Ling | 5/15/13 8:34 AM | Hi Gray, Thanks for the tip. Like Bobby, it worked for me too. But there were some issues even when I used your solution. When I tried with just 1 location, it worked perfectly. But when I tried to add multiple locations using your steps, it does |
| Re: Naming 'My Places' on Google Maps | Desmond Ling | 5/15/13 8:38 AM | Sorry guys. Ignore my last post. It seems it still doesn't work for me. At first all my bookmarks shows up Then it revert back to the old problem again. Argh. |
| Re: Naming 'My Places' on Google Maps | KRUL(e) | 5/23/13 10:55 AM | <This message has been deleted.> |
| Re: Naming 'My Places' on Google Maps | KRUL(e) | 5/23/13 10:57 AM | Worked Perfectly (Galaxy S4). Thank You! |
| Re: Naming 'My Places' on Google Maps | Al F. | 5/24/13 7:39 PM | Gary W's steps didn't work for me on my Samsung G4. Hey Gary W, what do you think I'm doing wrong? Just to be sure this is the same issues others are discussing here: On my PC, I search for all the W-marts (for example) in an area and star each of |
| Re: Naming 'My Places' on Google Maps | KRUL(e) | 5/25/13 5:33 AM | I would try re-naming them online, i.e., 5th Street Walmart, 72nd Street Walmart. Maybe then the phone app will recognize them as unique. |
| Re: Naming 'My Places' on Google Maps | Al F. | 5/25/13 6:04 AM | Thanks for the response, KRUL(e). That is the last step in the instructions I read from this post, but renaming the first one "1 W-mart" and the second one "2 W-mart" on my PC then clearing the phone's My Places cache and refreshing My Places on the |