How do you set a waypoint and follow the GPS in GTA 6?

The full-map question has its own answer: Rockstar has announced a poster map in the Goodtime State box and a free digital map of Leonida scheduled for 19 November 2026. An announced printable map is not the game’s full-map interface. The reviewed footage used below shows the small corner map, routes and distance readouts, not a tested method for setting a waypoint in the release build.

What the material shows

The minimap page describes the frames in full. What they show of how it works: at 15:49 of the Extended Look a pink line runs from the player’s arrow to a pink dot, following the road round the block rather than cutting straight to the marker, so the map draws a driving route and not a bearing, and a figure at the top left reads 174 ft. At 13:06, on a wide multi-lane road, it reads 0.31 mi, so feet give way to miles over a longer run.

In the race frames at 17:41 the same map shows the circuit as a pale grey ribbon on green with the field as white dots, nine ahead of the player’s arrow and two behind. The map, then, changes what it draws with what you are doing. Whether it flashes red and blue under a wanted level, as Grand Theft Auto IV’s radar did around its search zone, one still cannot settle: in the full frame at 15:49.90 four wanted stars are lit in the top right corner and the map keeps its ordinary colours, but a single frame can fall between two flashes. No frame we have shows the full map, the pause screen or a waypoint being placed.

What nobody knows

• How a waypoint is set, and whether the route line is a waypoint or a mission marker.
• What the letter on the rim is, and whether the map turns with the player; the letter sitting on the right-hand rim at 15:49 and the left at 13:06 points that way.
• Whether the map can be enlarged, and what the full map looks like.
• What the map shows under a wanted level: cones, a search circle, or the icons from the wanted display.
• Whether distances switch to metres anywhere, and whether the GPS speaks.

How Grand Theft Auto V did it

This is the reference, not a prediction. Grand Theft Auto V’s radar showed the map top-down when you were on foot and tilted into a slanted perspective in a vehicle. With a GPS route active, the GTA Wiki notes, a direction indicator sat at the bottom left and a mileage indicator at the bottom right. When the police lost sight of you the radar drew field-of-vision indicators on the police blips, the cones the guide to losing the police describes, and pressing down on the d-pad zoomed the radar out to show more of the map. Waypoints were set on the city map and the route drawn on both the map and the radar, the GTA Wiki’s page on the GPS adds, yellow for a mission and purple for a waypoint of your own, and unlike Grand Theft Auto IV’s the GPS did not speak. A pink line with a distance in feet is that system in a new colour; whether it does more is a launch-day question.

What this page becomes on launch day

From 19 November 2026 this guide is rewritten from the release build: setting a waypoint, the full map, what the minimap does under a wanted level and in a race, and what the letter on the rim means, each with the date it was checked. Until then the short answer at the top stands.