Manage your maps in Google Drive

You can see all your My Maps in Google Drive, both those that you created and those shared with you. Use Drive's features to manage your maps.

Create or open a map

To create a map in Google Drive:

1. Make sure that you're signed in to your Google Account.
2. Open Google Drive.
3. Click New More Google My Maps.

To open a map that you’ve already created in My Maps:

1. Open Google Drive.
2. Click My Drive.
3. Double click the map that you want to open.

To delete a map in Google Drive:

1. Open Google Drive.
2. Find your map and click it once.
3. At the top right, click Remove .

If you delete a map, it’s moved to the Bin folder in Drive, where you can permanently delete it or restore it later. Your map will still appear in My Maps until you permanently delete it from the Bin.

Share a map

From Google Drive, you can set sharing options for your maps. Any changes that you make to sharing settings in Drive are automatically reflected in My Maps.

1. Open Google Drive.
2. Find your map and click it once.
3. In the toolbar at the top of the page, click Share .
4. Type the email addresses of the people that you want to share with in the text box below 'Invite people'. You can add a single person, a mailing list or choose from your contacts.
5. Choose the access level from the drop-down menu: Can view or Can edit. (You'll also see the Can comment option; for maps, this option works just like Can view.)

Change a map's title or description

If you change a map's title or description in Google Drive, those changes are automatically reflected in My Maps and vice versa.

1. Open Google Drive.
2. Find your map and click it once.
3. To change the title, click More actions . Then choose Rename.
4. To change the description, click More actions . Then choose View details.

Organise your maps

Use Google Drive to keep your maps organised and easy to find. For example, you could put all of your holiday maps in one folder. If you've created many maps and want to open a specific map quickly, just enter any text in the map's title in the search box.

Learn more about organising files in Google Drive.

Delete a map

If you delete a map from My Maps or from Google Drive, it's moved to the Bin folder in Drive. To permanently delete (or restore) a binned map, open Google Drive and locate the map in the Bin folder.

Learn more about the Bin folder in Google Drive.

Important notes about maps in Drive

• Storage: Your maps don't use any of your storage quota for Google Drive.
• Offline sync: Your maps are available only in Google Drive on the web. You can't get to them offline.

Viewing My Maps on mobile devices

You can't create My Maps on mobile devices. On your computer, learn how to create a map To view a map in Google Drive using a mobile device:

1. Open the Google Drive app.
2. Find your map.
3. Click it once.
4. You can view the map in your phone's browser.

To delete a map in Google Drive using a mobile device:

1. Open the Google Drive app.
2. Find your map.
3. To the right of the map file, select .
4. Click Remove.