Google is great for being around maps-only because of its simplicity, but also its color-coded topography that helps you understand the forests from the roads. Unfortunately, the Google Map lump sum does not explain what each color means, so let me become your map key.
What is the color of each map?
Google map is packed with useful features, navigation from functionality to better safety equipment. Google is always looking to improve the user experience, including the thoughtful color coding that is designed to help you understand what you are looking at immediately. The idea is to create a wide representation of the world with a minimal aesthetics.
Let’s start with the original categories of colors and go from there.
Roads, railway and underground tunnels
grey: It represents roads, highways, railways and underground tunnels. Roads are a light brown, while the highway is very deep with dotted white lines. These are much easier than almost the same colors of yellow Google maps used earlier.
Railroads are thin gray lines, which are similar to the color of the roads. But they have a big difference: the dash that resembles the cross-tie. Underground tunnels are gray with cross-hech shedding.
Green lines: When you enable Biking Options, you will find a series of green lines that refer to trails, bicycle -friendly roads, dedicated lanes and dirt trails. These are depicted as a solid dark green line, a dotted green line, a solid light green line and dark green dashes respectively.
Buildings
Light gray: This color represents non-commercial areas- some hospitals, health centers, residential homes and even retirement houses.
If you zoom in, you will see a slight difference between the buildings. Residential buildings will be dark brown with a white background. Dark brown colors are also used to symbolize unique sites, such as airports, industrial areas and large university complexes. In the example below, Denmark’s Copenhagen Airport is highlighted in dark gray.
An important note: While the university appears as a dark brown color on the map, if you zoom sufficiently to see all the separate buildings of the institution, there will be some tan and some gray. Military bases will also be identified in gray.
In the example below, you can see isolation between the American naval base in San Diego and the civil residential area on the right. This is only different if you are looking away; If you zoom in, both areas look the same, except the streets. Roads will also be gray in military bases.
Light tan: This color symbolizes commercial areas, commercial buildings and some hospitals. After loading any city in the world in the Google map, you will see the city divided into gray and tan colors. Tan areas represent the commercial centers of the city, as well as the city and historical old cities locations.
If you download a map to see offline, it will be wide as all data and color coding live, online version.
Nature and Park
Dark Tan: This color is used for public beaches.
Blue: This color means water and rivers. Large bodies of water, like lakes, are blue drops. Meanwhile, rivers may appear as thin blue lines.
brown: Google Maps uses a lot of shades of brown; They can represent anything from a desert to the national park or mountain range. Depending on the place, they will usually be labeled. Officially, Google Maps call it a natural sand/shrub color.
Green: At any time you see the patch of greenery, you are looking at forests and entertaining parks. The national parks can show as green color, although it varies between parks.
The example below shows an area around the boulder city, Nevada, where you can see a collage of blue, green, brown and body, representing the natural characteristics of Nevada.
traffic
With the competent traffic layer enabled in Google Maps, you can see specific and live traffic in an area indicated by a range of green, yellow and red lines. The color you see will give you a clue on how light or bad traffic is.
Green: When you see it, there is minimal traffic in the road, so you should not expect any delay.
Yellow: Yellow roads mean that you should expect a good amount of traffic.
Red: There are two red shades of red: normal and dark red. If the traffic layer is capable of your map or you have chosen guidanceRed on the road means heavy traffic and may indicate that an accident or construction is causing it. Dark red means very heavy traffic.
Blue: This color only appears when you set a destination in the Google map, which reflects the most optimal path keeping in mind the traffic.
While Google Maps have changed some colors here and there since their establishment, most of the original palettes remain intact. If you have not used it in some time, changes to yellow roads are the most important difference you will notice. I did not use the map for some time, and that’s what thrown me the most. They actually look like short roads now – white lines and all.
