Help Creating a specific location for a contact

[Delver]

Hi there,

I've had my Samsung Galaxy S3 for about a month now and there are various things that I would have thought obvious and simple to do that I just can't find a way of doing...

I realise there is often a straightforward way of doing something that I've probably missed but I can't work out how to create a specific location on Maps (stock Google maps app) for a given contact.

To be more specific:

I can go to the Contacts, create a new contact and add an address.

That's great if the address is somewhere Google maps searches for and finds, but more often than not the places where my contacts are located are not "found" by the Maps app and so it is rendered useless (it just comes up saying "not found" or brings up ten possible "matches" which just happen to be nowhere near the actual location). Not easy to get directions to!

What I'm trying to do is to pick a specific point on the map and then add that to the contact (more like a grid reference or OS coordinate) so Google maps doesn't "search", it just accepts that pin-point location.

Any help would be deeply appreciated.

Delver

 

[XplosiV]

I can see your point, and I agree, testing by trying to add a random location around Loch Ness only gives you the option (if long pressed) to star that location.

This is all well and good, but really you need to be able to add information to that stared location like contact details that then get saved the same as regular contacts.

Visa versa, adding an address / postcode to your phone book contacts should also give you the option to star on maps (usually you can just tap contact, then the maps icon and load maps and star the location manually)

 

[SUroot]

One thing you could try which might make it more accurate

Right click on the map at the point you want and select "directions from here". On the right side, you get an "A" and "B" box (to and from) and at the end of the "A" field is an @ and a google maps reference. If you copy the reference after the the @, does that get any more accurate?

You'd have to put it in a second address field though. Name them custom perhaps:

Home:

Home Map:

 

[Delver]

Thank you both for your prompt replies...

SURoot, you're a genius!

That had been driving me crazy for the last month - functionality to navigate to a client (contact) but coming up with no address or a list of wrong addresses.

So: I took the longitude and latitude coordinates into the contact address field, but to get it to work properly the solution was not to go to the Contact app (pressing the locate icon in the contract address still didn't work). Instead, go directly to the Maps app, select the destination combo box, select Contacts and then choose the contact address!


I have found a way of not having to go to a computer to get the longitude and latitude coordinates. By selecting a location on the Maps app (long press a place), then clicking on the box that appears (a nearby company or point of interest), then clicking on the Share This option, you can put it into S-Memo, or other suitable apps. Part of what appears in S-Memo is a website link. If you then run the Internet browser, paste that link into the address bar you get prompted to open with Internet app or Maps app (unless you previously choose Always Open with a specific app at an earlier time! ). When Maps displays that location, it gives the longitude and latitude reference!

Slightly long winded, but useful if no access to a computer.


I thank you both for your input, and SURoot for your genius solution!


Delver

 

[XplosiV]

Don't forget, you can also give feedback through the maps app directly to Google make a suggestion maybe?