Did you know that you can plan multiple stops using Google Maps? Today Pete's going to break down how you can do this, the limitations it has, and how you can fix it.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 - intro
00:20 - How to plan multiple stops
01:01 - How to use My Maps
01:37 - How to optimize your stops
02:27 - The pros and Cons
02:52 - Circuit Route Planner
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What you've got to do, is go to the search bar at the top. Put in your first drop, your first location, and then input that. And then press the directions button to get it up and running.
Then once you've got that up and going, on your first upload, normally what we do with Google Maps. In the top right hand corner, there are three dots. If you tap on the three dots, you'll get a drop down menu. And on the drop down menu it will say "Add a Stop". So obviously what you do is you click on the "Add a Stop" bit. Then you can add up to ten stops and all in order, stop, and where you go. It's an okay way of doing it. There are disadvantages with it.
First of all, you can only do ten stops. Now there is a way to do more than ten stops. You can go to Google, and you can use My Maps. The thing about My Maps is it's painful, it's difficult to input, you only get a print out, it could take like hours. If you've got say 100 stops, it could take you 8 hours to put them in. And more than anything else, it won't optimize your stops. And this is what we're all about. We're all about optimizing your stops.
So say, for example, you're doing it through Google and you want to optimize the stops. There isn't actually a way of doing it, but what you can do, put your ten stops in, put your first stop in as normal. Get the directions, go to the three little dots, go to the drop down menu, go to "Add Stop", add all your stops in. And then when you've added them, next to them, you'll see like a little equal sign. And what you can do is then you can have a look on the map or have a look at the stops.
Try and use common sense or have a look at the post code, see which ones are near to each other, and move the equal signs up and down into an order. So it might say from where you are to where you're going and the places in between. And that's the best and only way to do it in Google.
It's not brilliant because even though it looks on a map, like two places are close together, sometimes they're not. Because sometimes it would be much quicker to do the motorway and go around the other way and then do that on the way back. Sometimes two postcodes might be next to each other, but they could be opposite end to the county and it doesn't work. It's a nice idea, but it doesn't work. This is why I don't use it. This is why I use this thing that we go on on that we use Circuit.
Circuit is fantastic because it will integrate with Google Maps. It doesn't just do it right with Google Maps. It integrates with Waze, it integrates with airport maps. It integrates with here we go. It integrates with TomTom. For start it makes it much easier to get stops in because you could talk to the phone rather than manually put them in with the post code.
Once you've got them all in and you get them in a lot quicker, you can either put them in by hand or you can talk to the phone.
When you get there, not only are you saving time getting to the stop quicker, but when you actually get in the back and you're actually around, moving around under 200 parses trying to work out where it is, it will actually find it for you. And once you put all your stops in, you click the "Optimize" button. This is something that Google doesn't do.
You click the "Optimize" button and what that will do is it will work out the best and quickest way for you to go all the way around and do the stops, which is why I use it.
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