I've found Google maps to be really shit at navigating for cars to be honest. I recommend Waze. My only gripe with waze is that they're very car focused, so I still use maps when I go by bike, but at least that part of maps is pretty okay (at least for me)
waze is also google im pretty sure
Yes Google bought it when it was clearly better.
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish
Oh you're right, just looked it up. I guess if you're trying to de-google then it's not an option. But it's navigation style is so much better than maps imo so in some way still a valid switch I suppose
The ~~sponsor~~ (hmm) slingshot will allow you to build up speed. Clever.
Fun fact: Google Maps shows alternative routes if businesses along that way pay them money.
It even distracts you with sponsored pop-up ads while driving.
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-maps-add-stop-ads-37683.html
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Unrelated to anything in this topic but I grew up within the confines of this map view. It's nuts to me that you posted it and I stumbled across the discussion to see it.
Google Maps has been doing a lot of weird shit lately. I recently went on a road trip, going to a place I hit every year, taking my regular toll-less route, which is mostly 95.
G-Maps kept trying me to take new routes, which had tolls, and took LONGER. It tried to derail me at least a half dozen times, just changing my route without my consent. I had to stay on it every minute, even though I was driving.
I came to the conclusion that Google is cutting deals with states to shift people to toll roads, even if it takes longer. Probably getting a cut of the tolls. So it doesn't matter which route you want to take, based on less mileage or fastest, they are going to prioritize the route that makes them the most money.
On the way back, I left late, after my event. I expected to drive for a couple of hours, take a nap, and finish. After a few hours, I realized that even though I had put my home address in, like I had a million times before, G-Maps decided I must mean a similar address in a different STATE, and in my tiredness, I didn't realize it until I was crossing the border into the wrong state. I had to backtrack, and all that time was wasted.
What the fuck is Google Maps doing? That was just one trip. I've learned to stay on top of G-Maps. You can't trust them at all.
They have also started showing "sponsored" locations as the first search result, often being ridiculously inconvenient and not at all what was searched for. For example I went to look for the Costco near me, and the first result was a Target nearly 20 miles away.
The Sponsored behavior is Google gaming their own ads business. Yesterday I searched “Lowe’s” and it shows two results for the same location, one sponsored above and the regular listing below it.
It's been on a steady decline for at least 5 years now imo, ever since they introduced "fuel efficient paths" it kept choosing small roads with lots of stopping and starting at intersections instead of the bigger roadways where you can hold a constant speed.. how that is more fuel efficient beats me
Geez, I hate it when they route you down those little back roads, where you have to watch for some poorly marked turn every 4 miles. It was exactly one of those stupid country roads where I hit a deer for the only time in my life, thanks to Google. Just put me on a highway, where I can zone out to some Pink Floyd and cruise.
I wonder if they just go off speed limits and don't know or factor in that the stop signs exist
I’m willing to bet that sometime between last year and now, an LLM got involved.
I can see AI being useful in calculating more accurate ETAs and such, but this seemed like they've been tasked to direct traffic to toll roads.
If AI is going to be involved, I don't need it to be smart for me, I need it to be efficient.
Bro. That last part would have me livid. I can feel my blood boiling from that. I have made trips across states with only enough money for gas to get where I needed to be...if Google had did something like that to me during those times I'd be fucked without a paddle.
I’ve been using CoMaps for a few months and I love it. No google or apple bullshit
My only problem with CoMaps is that it doesn't display the target address at the end, and navigates to a "block" of addresses. I do a lot of delivery for work, so no I'm afraid I do not readily know which address I'm going to and cannot look it up while driving. The navigation works well, though.
Looks promising, I'll give it a try. I don't mind ditching Google.
I was on holidays last month and it really seemed to struggle on a number of occasions to give a decent result for”supermarket”, with some of the top results being thousands of kilometres away.
Once I've got a path plotted, I switch on airplane mode so Google Maps can't throw me any curveballs.
Then you lose traffic updates. I use Wayze, and it suddenly switched and told me to take a turn and I followed it and neatly circumvented a jacknifed truck and probably a big delay.
Over a year ago a new asian grocery store opened in my hometown and no matter how much I zoom on the map it just refuses to show up. It has 4.9 and 24 reviews yet still nothing, only by searching can you find it
Scenic route
Navigation provided by https://neal.fun/internet-roadtrip/
Well, thanks for taking that hour from me
Yeah, it's been going on for probably close to 2 years now. I got this lovely scenic route option heading home the other day. I've never taken any route home other than the main road, so I have no idea why tf it suddenly thought I needed to take my little hatchback 4x4'ing
Google suggests slower alternative paths, so it can collect more local data from the region through your phone or car.
EDIT: I'm a dum dum.
I use and routinely contribute to OSM, and I hate Google Maps both ethically and because the actual underlying map is just half-baked.
This is a ridiculous explanation for why GMaps suggests nominally slower routes alongside the main one. What's happening in the OP image is clearly a bug, not Google begging you to pretty please do 8 superfluous minutes of data collection for them.
This comment is just fucking stupid and based on nothing when a much more cogent explanation exists. I'm sure it doesn't hurt that you travel farther, but seriously? Show any evidence at all that this is why it performs this extremely normal and explicable routing operation.
This is a joke comment posted in shitpost cpmmunity. Dont take it seriously.
At least one person believed the "joke comment"
People here have said dumber things in earnest.
I mean... it's not wrong. That IS 8 minutes slower.
Some lovely homes for sale in that neighborhood.
My understanding is that it always tries to give you 2-3 route options. It defaults to what it thinks is the shortest, but it gives you a couple of options that are slightly longer. You might prefer those other options for various reasons.
But if there aren't a whole lot of altenate options, the 2-3 options for slightly longer routes might include "ridiculous" things like this. It doesn't know. It wouldn't know why you wouldn't always want the shortest route, but of course as humans, we have preferences and knowlege Maps doesn't have.
I have 'avoid tolls' turned on. I put in a trip yesterday that took me through a toll tunnel, and gave me no other option. You really need to check it's work before following it.
Yeah I've personally seen it do shit like that a few times. Its been a bug for awhile, don't know if its fixed or not but I'm on CoMaps now and actively contributing to OSM
That was the first suggested route before it found a new route that could save you 8 minutes
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