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I think this is a critical area where Google has been making some headway. They are more and more moving to a map of points of interests (instead of a map of r
by on_and_off 8y ago
I think this is a critical area where Google has been making some headway.
They are more and more moving to a map of points of interests (instead of a map of roads) and this tailors my use cases so much better.
- balls187 8y agoI found it odd during Turn By Turn nav that google told me to "Take a right after the Taco Bell." Navigating by landmark is natural for humans, and it's cool to see Google moving to this approach. My wife and I traveled to roughly the same area, and solely based on that one instruction we were able to go by memory, because of this new approach to nav that Google Maps is taking.
- toasterlovin 8y agoFor a different perspective, I hate navigation by landmarks. I basically never pay attention to the names of stores I’m passing.
- rickycook 8y agoplaces close down (and don’t get updated in maps) much more regularly than street name change. if it were extra it might be good?
- balls187 8y agoThat's a good point. Google is well positioned to support it--between their business information + data from Android devices, detecting the closed places wouldn't be intractable.