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I do cross country drives and love PIP on Android. I also like how I can schedule a stop at a gas station or grocery store based on how it impacts my route. Th

I do cross country drives and love PIP on Android. I also like how I can schedule a stop at a gas station or grocery store based on how it impacts my route. The only complaint I have about maps is that it doesn't seem to know where I'm going next. Nine times out of ten the place I'm navigating to is the same place I navigated to from the same spot yesterday.

dmix 8y ago
Google Maps lets you save common routes (plus detects ones you haven't yet) and pull them up quickly... like a daily commute route. Which powers the 'warning your drive to x is 10min delayed with traffic accident' stuff on Google Assistant. The problem is that while Google Maps is very popular, it's not easy to find and use these features. I just came across is accidentally one day. Or it's possible Google asked me if I wanted to save if when it detected I do it often. It's been a while so my memory is a bit hazy on the original workflow I took.
- atomical 8y ago
  Why am I in charge of managing this in the age of AI? That's my complaint.
- kenjackson 8y ago
  Also Google will use your calendar to populate the list of destinations -- I think.
- JadeNB 8y ago
  > The problem is that while Google Maps is very popular, it's not easy to find and use these features. While talking about hard-to-find-and-use features: sometimes, when I try to get directions, Google offers to download them for me for offline use. This is frustrating because it only happens sometimes, but I want it almost all the time. There's a relatively easy way to download offline directions for a specific region, but I can't find a way to download offline directions for a specific route (including, presumably, a small fuzz of nearby information—I don't know what it downloads when it offers, since I find this hard to reproduce). Just downloading all the regions involved is impractical for, e.g., cross-country drives. Do you know how to download offline directions for an arbitrary route, when Google doesn't prompt me to do so?

dmix 8y ago

Google Maps lets you save common routes (plus detects ones you haven't yet) and pull them up quickly... like a daily commute route. Which powers the 'warning your drive to x is 10min delayed with traffic accident' stuff on Google Assistant. The problem is that while Google Maps is very popular, it's not easy to find and use these features. I just came across is accidentally one day. Or it's possible Google asked me if I wanted to save if when it detected I do it often. It's been a while so my memory is a bit hazy on the original workflow I took.

atomical 8y ago
Why am I in charge of managing this in the age of AI? That's my complaint.
kenjackson 8y ago
Also Google will use your calendar to populate the list of destinations -- I think.
JadeNB 8y ago
> The problem is that while Google Maps is very popular, it's not easy to find and use these features. While talking about hard-to-find-and-use features: sometimes, when I try to get directions, Google offers to download them for me for offline use. This is frustrating because it only happens sometimes, but I want it almost all the time. There's a relatively easy way to download offline directions for a specific region, but I can't find a way to download offline directions for a specific route (including, presumably, a small fuzz of nearby information—I don't know what it downloads when it offers, since I find this hard to reproduce). Just downloading all the regions involved is impractical for, e.g., cross-country drives. Do you know how to download offline directions for an arbitrary route, when Google doesn't prompt me to do so?