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The biggest thing for me with maps is the refusal to allow multiple tabs on phone.

If you're the passenger on a road trip and doing the navigation you're unable to use maps to make plans for tonight or tomorrow.

Okay the driver could be nav, but now they also need to be the music, and everytime you the passenger wants to use it to look for petrol on route or change music you have to ask their code or hold it up to their face. Plus now you see all their notifications.

Even without being on a road trip, on a desktop i'd be making plans in multiple tabs before making a decision. On a phone it's a nightmare when it could be so easy.

[lupire]

Install Maps Go for another map, and set up a Work Profile for 2 more maps.

Or use Maps in abBrowser.

Interestingly, when you have public transit navigation running, Maps is able to run "current trip" in background while you plan an alternate/additional trip.

[TeMPOraL]

Yes. Then buy another phone for up to 4 extra maps.

At this point paper maps start looking more useful than digital ones.

Google Maps is not a map. It's a half-decent nav system slash ad delivery vector, that pretends to be a map, but sucks at it.

[Retric]

You can use multiple map apps at the same time on one phone.

Default + website (on multiple tap) are always available, but on long road trips I use Waze.

There’s also a bunch of really nice apps for things like subway maps, trails, etc.

[tnel77]

While you are correct, I think they were saying it would be nice to turn on Google Maps directions and then use the same app on the same phone to do research without disrupting the current navigation.