Place pages: what Maps shows about a place

When you open a place on Maps, its page fills the side panel: what the place is, where it is, when it is open, how to reach it, and what is around it. There are three kinds: a city, town or ZIP code, a business or landmark, and a dropped pin on any spot you choose.

#The buttons on every place page

#A city, a town or a ZIP code

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A city's page has:

• A photo and a summary from Wikipedia, when there is one, credited at the bottom of the summary.
• Its position in decimal degrees and in degrees, minutes and seconds, with a button to copy it.
• Population and elevation (in meters and feet).
• The local time and its difference from UTC, which matters when the place is in another time zone, and sunrise and sunset today.
• The weather now, with a link to the full forecast.
• A plus code, a short code for the spot that you can share instead of an address.
• Explore: buttons that search for restaurants, coffee, hotels and more around the place.
• Nearby cities and towns with their distances, and for U.S. cities, the ZIP codes that carry the city's name.
• Street-level photos taken nearby, when there are some (see below).

The map draws the city's outline as a dashed red line. A ZIP code's page has the same facts and says which city the ZIP code is in.

#A business or a landmark

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• Open or closed now. When the map has the opening hours, the line under the name says Open · Closes 9 PM, Closes soon, Open 24 hours or Closed · Opens 11 AM, by the place's own local time. Select the hours line to see the whole week, with today marked.
• Address, website, phone and email, as the map has them. Select the copy button beside the address to copy it.
• Details: what the place offers, such as cuisine, wheelchair access, takeout, outdoor seating, free Wi-Fi, the payments it takes, the plugs at an EV charger, or the year it opened.
• About: a summary from Wikipedia, when the place has an article.
• Nearby: buttons that search for restaurants, coffee, hotels, parking, things to do and gas around it.

At the bottom of the page, Edit it and leave a note open OpenStreetMap, where anyone can correct a wrong address or missing hours. Corrections reach Maps after a while, not at once.

#A dropped pin

Right-click any spot on the map (or press and hold it on a touch screen) and choose What's here?. A red pin drops there and the panel shows:

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• The street address of the spot, or the name of the business there with a link to its full page.
• Its coordinates and plus code, each with a copy button.
• Its elevation, the nearest town with its distance and direction, and the local time.
• Measure distance and Travel times from this spot, and Weather for the nearest town.
• Places of interest nearby: Wikipedia articles about places within walking distance, with photos.

The pin also travels in the page's address, so a link copied with Share opens the same pin. How much detail you get depends on how far you were zoomed in: a click on a whole country names the country, a click on a street names the house.

#Street-level photos

Many place pages end with a strip of street-level photos taken nearby by contributors to Panoramax, a free and open photo collection. Photos marked 360° are panoramas.

• Select a photo to open it full screen.
• In a 360° photo, drag to look around, or use the ← and → keys; scroll to zoom.
• The arrow buttons step to the previous and next photo in the same series, usually the next few meters along the street.
• The pin button closes the photo and shows the spot on the map; Esc or the close button returns you to the page.

Each photo is credited to its author with its licence. To see where photos exist, use the Street-level photos map.