Google maps is drunk. I'm at the blue dot & wanted to see how long it would take to walk to the red flag and this is the route it suggested.
13h 55m ago by lemmy.dbzer0.com/u/JennaR8r in justpost from lemmy.dbzer0.com
I find many of the changes google has made in the last 2 years really stupid.
The "go past this light and turn at blah blah road" is way too fucking wordy and can lead to missing turns because by the time its dome speaking you have already drove past. I want road name plus minimal direction feature. Stop trying to humanize the gps. I think I yell at the GPS to shut the fuck up more and more.
Google is better than Siri. My wife is so iPhone and so anti-Android, but even she hates how Siri waits until the last second.
For real. Half the time I am like “You mean turn on the street I drove past two seconds ago?”
Time to check out Cartes.app! https://cartes.app/?clic=34.02076%7C-118.50899
It uses OSM and has some very useful routing options for foot/bike/public transportation.
Damn, you computer nerds are amazing. One of your coordinates is SPOT ON. 💯
Cartes.app is amazing.
It excels at route planning but then it encourages you to use comaps for the actual navigation. Because its offline.... its a beautiful opensource ecosystem
Just tried it out and I don't like that they presume to judge whether I should use a car or not. Like sorry I live so close to an Ikea, should I move further away so you sanction me using a car for moving furniture?
Showing the co2 emissions, gas prices etc is cool but making a tool and then enforcing your ideals on how it should be used is a bit too far
That app told me to leave the main road and go on a dirt road
I can't tell from their site -- are they using a service like GraphHopper or Valhalla for routing, or have they rolled their own? If they're doing a limited amount of public transport routing, fuel efficiency calculations, etc, I guess it's the latter?
shit, I'm actually fine using Organic Maps, but I love PWAs too much to not install this
A few fun things Google Maps has done recently:
Going to a friend's new house in a rural area with long, long driveways. Google maps told us to go up their neighbor's driveway, park at their neighbor's house, and walk 1500 feet across a canyon.
Getting to a train station in Philadelphia, you know the kind of place that's had a steady address for probably at least a century: Sent me to a MicroCenter (I think it was) about a mile away. Finally figured out it was because there was a hotel behind it, and a lot of the reviews mentioned convenient access to the train station.
Google audio directions are also garbage if you're relying on audio (like riding a motorcycle). Often doesn't repeat the street name when you have to turn, which is fun when there are two or three streets in close succession. Also seems to pick a random distance from your turn to tell you to turn. Sometimes it's several hundred feet before, sometimes it's only just as you're passing the turn.
It sent me in circles last week. I didn't know the area and thought the road was maybe under construction. Nope, it wanted me to be late.
I've found that Gmaps has gotten so bad, that I instinctively go to CoMaps these days,
There's a really old Top Gear episode, where someone sent in a suggested travel route (they did verify it) from one of the online services. What they wanted was "go from this one part of London to this other part of London, but avoid the big motorways". The suggested route had the submitter leaving London and crossing the Channel into France ...
Am I close?
You are VERY close 😃 This is so much fun! I love the adrenaline of the possibility of being stalked & murdered 😱
I mean your route walks nearby where I used to live so you can stalk me too if you want
Okay but if you USED to live there that means you're not currently there, so... 🤷🏼♀️
That's the mystery detective 🔍 True stalkers will use this to actually find me. I've left 5 paper notes in the surrounding area with clues about my current whereabouts! Collect all 5 and when you solve the puzzle-
Yeah, I thought that was you.
Don't worry, my freezer is full. A couple of weeks, at least.
Do you have a midpoint set at the grey dot with a (1) ?
I have entered no such settings. Anyway I clicked start and it sorted itself out. It told me it's a straight route, a 37 minute walk.
Okay now for the bonus challenge since I've told you all my location, come find me while I'm out walking LOL
Bit far from me: 
I'll catch the next ice age to walk across the atlantic then, hope I won't be late
I think the grey dot with a 1 is highway 1
Yeah, but the only way I could replicate the route was by adding a midpoint there, and there is a different shade of gray dot next to the (1).
Oh yeah I see it now. Grey with grey border not white border. Good eyes
Now thats a course with some chest hair!
Not enough comets or black holes.
I’ve seen this in some roads. There used to be a major road in my city that runs north-south. And yet, at a random intersection, GPS directions would always tell you to turn right, then left, then go a block and then come back to the main road and continue on your way. It made no sense.
I think someone finally dug in and saw that the map data our city published was missing a tiny connecting node in that intersection, so all the routing algorithms saw that as “the road ends here” and found a way to route you around it.
They fixed it after several years and newer GPS devices (and web stuff) finally routed properly.
But you’re not wrong - Google Maps IS fucking drunk.
There's a spot on Main Street in my town, a road with two sidewalks, where it forces me to cross the street for no reason. Like, there's just a dead spot on Google maps right there, it makes no sense.