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You can always tell what features the creator of a product use themselves! Microsoft long ago (10 years?) added a great feature for bus routes on Bing Maps: "P

by ken 6y ago

You can always tell what features the creator of a product use themselves! Microsoft long ago (10 years?) added a great feature for bus routes on Bing Maps: "Previous stop is ___" / "If you reach ___, you've gone too far". That's a brilliant idea, and it tells me that the people at Microsoft who built this actually take the bus themselves. It's pretty clear to me that everyone at Google drives.

dylan-m 6y ago
That one was a great feature! I'm really hoping someone will figure out landmarks for mapping directions at some point. Or has someone done that and I haven't noticed? :) There's so much data about buildings now, it wouldn't be that much of a stretch to say something like "head towards the Dominion building", or "once you've passed the school on your right, you are almost there". It would really help people who have trouble orienting themselves with maps, it would help in places with less obvious street signs, and it would be a hundred times more useful than that very cool and very unnecessary AR navigation feature Google made because they needed to work around the broken compasses in their phones.