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mymaps – How to change the road color in Google My Maps – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/10/16

The colour of a directions layer in Google My Maps is always blue.

You cannot change it in that layer, despite it being a long standing feature request: [WaybackSave/Archive] how can i use a different line color on each layer for my bike routes? – Google Maps Community

If you are creating Directions layers on My Maps it is not possible to change the color of the lines. It is a often requested feature but so far Google has not implemented it.

There is however w workaround answered in [Wayback/Archive] mymaps – How to change the road color in Google My Maps – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Ben for asking and [Wayback/Archive] Richard de Ree for answering):

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How to export Google Maps Timeline – twm’s blog

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/09/04

I am so glad that TWM wrote this down: [Wayback/Archive] How to export Google Maps Timeline – twm’s blog

A while ago, Google changed Maps to no longer store the Timeline data on Google’s servers but only on an Android phone. It also supposedly encrypts that data. Optionally you can enable a “cloud backup” which stores an encrypted backup of that data on Google’s server so you can move your Timeline from one Android phone to another and don’t lose your history.

I’m not a huge fan of this change because it means that I can access my Timeline on my Android phone only and no longer in the web browser, but I guess Google got tired of those requests by various police and spy organizations for user’s Timeline data, so they made it technically impossible.

But I would like to at least see that data on my computer, so what can be done?

…

TWM then goes on with some steps, and then list links what you can do with the exported data which I extended below.

I wish there was an app what would automate the exporting process on a regular interval, or merge from multiple phones back into a single one. Oh, well: maybe one day…

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Posted in CSS, Development, Google, GoogleMaps, HTML, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

On my tools list – mxrch/GHunt: Offensive Google framework.

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/31

Cool addition on my tools list: [Wayback/Archive] mxrch/GHunt: 🕵️‍♂️ Offensive Google framework.

usage: ghunt [-h] {login,email,gaia,drive} ...

positional arguments:
  {login,email,gaia,drive}
    login   (--clean)         Authenticate GHunt to Google.
    email   (--json)          Get information on an email address.
    gaia    (--json)          Get information on a Gaia ID.
    drive   (--json)          Get information on a Drive file or folder.

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit

Via [Wayback/Archive] Cyber Detective on Twitter: “Ghunt online version. Get info about Google account by email: – name – default profile and cover pictures; – calendar events and timezone; – Google Maps reviews; – Google Plus and Google Chat data; #osint #socmint “

Related:

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Maps of windturbines in The Netherlands (kaarten met windmolens in Nederland)

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/06

Sources/maps:

I used it to OSINT a location of a picture that had water, a bridge and windturbines on it.

Queries:

  1. [Wayback/Archive] kaart windturbines nederland – Google Search
  2. [Wayback/Archive] kaart windturbines nederland – Google Image Search

You can make your own maps here:

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Google Maps Hacks by Simon Weckert – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/10/05

This is from almost 2 years back, so I wonder if the physical and virtual Google Maps spoofing still works.

Via:

–jeroen

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Guidelines for representing your business on Google – Google My Business Help

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/08/17

For my link archive: [WayBack] Guidelines for representing your business on Google – Google My Business Help

–jeroen

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Justin O’Beirne – interesting comparisons of various Maps services

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/12/23

This is a reminder to myself to check out [WayBack] Justin O’Beirne again, as over the last years he posted various very interesting observations on the various Maps services.

Is Google Maps still years ahead of the competition? Why is that? Interesting topics that Justin covered in the past, for instance in [WayBack] Google Maps’s Moat How far ahead of Apple Maps is Google Maps?

Via:

–jeroen

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Links for another crazy idea: superimpose lane availability indicators on Google Maps

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/08/29

ANWB can superimpose the lane availability indicators on their internap maps software.

Some links so I won’t forget:

–jeroen

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When +Google Nederland maps only fills one or part of the map tiles…

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/04/18

I still have to do this every few weeks on all my desktop machines: [WayBack] When +Google Nederland maps only fills none or part of the map tiles… – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+

When +Google Nederland maps only fills none or part of the map tiles at https://maps.google.nl, but https://maps.google.com works fine, then remove any gsScrollPos cookies from www.google.nl.

I need to do this every couple of days to keep maps.google.nl working.

Later I also found it can happen for YouTube, then did more digging for gsScrollPos and found a better workaround: [WayBack] Awesome Cookie Manager where you can just delete the gsScrollPos cookies from all sites in one go.

Even later I found out that this can be one of the causes for the WayBack machine giving an error 400 when archiving. A more common reason however is that many archived web-pages try to create cookies in the web.archive.com subdomain resulting in the same problem.

The cause seems to be the Great Suspender plugin which should be fixed by now, but might not automatically update to the latest version. See:

Pending a new Great Suspender release, below is a quick way to manually remove them if you are into SQL scripting for sqlite. It basically comes down to executing the below statement when Chrome is closed:

delete from cookies where name like 'gsScrollPos-%'

Edit 20231230: Awesome Cookie Manager source repository at [Wayback/Archive] Phatsuo/awesome-cookie-manager: Awesome Cookie Manager.

--jeroen

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Google Local Guides Nederland after G+

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/04/02

For my information archive as G+ died:

From the (unarchived, but disappeared) Is er al iemand een slack kanaal gestart waar we als localguides heen kunnen?

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