Integration with Google Maps

Using the Google Maps integration

Turas is designed to help you quickly load into Google Maps on the go.

On the desktop, you can click on any place that you’ve added a location for (whether it’s a name, address, or Plus Code) and quickly bring it up on Google Maps:

Going from the turas.app trip to Google Maps for a single place.

If you select a route between two places, you can load that route into Google Maps as well and have the full fidelity of Google Maps:

Routing between two places from desktop to Google Maps

This also works on your mobile device as well:

Loading from a place to Google Maps.

It also works the same way for routes:

Loading a route from turas.app into Google Maps

Place name, address, latitude+longitude, or Plus Code?

The place location can be specified using four ways:

  1. Place name. This is a value like “Empire State Building”, “Marriott Colorado Springs”, “McDonald’s State Rt 33 Hightstown”. Generally, if Google Search an identify the place, you can use the name. If you need to, you can scope it more specifically by adding the state or the municipality. This will not be supported with a future Apple Maps integration.
  2. Address. This is the full address like “47000 CA-1, Big Sur, CA 93920” or “1185 Embarcadero, Morro Bay, CA 93442”. This will be supported with a future Apple Maps integration.
  3. Latitude+Longitude. This is a latitude and longitude value like “35.36985004871956, -120.85568121604996”. This works well for places which do not have an address such as a remote trail. This will be supported for a future Apple Maps integration.
  4. Google Plus Code. Google Plus Codes are a substitute for lat+long so can be used similarly. Like the lat+long, this works best for remote places that do not have a street address. You can use a value like “949V+WJ Morro Bay, California”.

ℹ️ For future Apple Maps compatibility, only address and lat+long will be supported as Apple Maps does not support routing using place names.

Getting Latitude and Longitude

The latitude and longitude for a place is easy to get in Google Maps:

Using latitude and longitude for a known place.

You can also right click and get the latitude and longitude for any arbitrary location on the map:

Using latitude and longitude for arbitrary locations.

Getting Plus Code

Google Plus Codes are a short way of encoding the lat+long; in some cases, it may be convenient to use the Plus Code for remote locations:

Using the Plus Code instead.

Note how this location does not have a street address so you need to use either the Plus Code or the longitude and latitude.