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Ditto. Additionally, Google Maps makes me try to cross streets that technically shouldn't be crossed by pedestrians.

ISL 6y ago
Google Maps has functionality for reporting problems. I've done the same when it suggested an unsafe bicycle street-crossing and they updated the routing.
- Triv888 6y ago
  Google sure loves free employees...
  - thesimon 6y ago
    As long as I don't have to pay obscene amounts for navigation, especially in the car, I don't mind.
    - Triv888 6y ago
      In my Mazda, I only had to buy a $30 SD card from Ebay to make navigation functional
      - capableweb 6y ago
        If I were you, I would stop buying random SD cards from the internet and connect to my devices, especially things like my car.
        Triv888 6y ago
        lol, fair point... but they can probably hack it remotely anyways... Are you also of the opinion that you can't buy used phones?
        capableweb 6y ago
        > Are you also of the opinion that you can't buy used phones? Depends, if you want a throwaway phone for a call or two that are not important, go ahead. But if you're looking for a phone you'll keep for multiple years and you want the least possible risk of being tracked by someone else than who made your phone, then I would absolutely not buy a used phone. Small problem as OK phones can be bought for ~$100 or less in most parts of the world.
- Someone 6y ago
  It may take a while for such information to make it to the map. https://www.theguardian.com/money/2020/dec/20/google-maps-postcode-error-leads-delivery-drivers-on-wild-pizza-chase https://www.theguardian.com/money/2020/dec/20/google-maps-po...: “His problem was that the postcode for his east London flat was incorrect on Google Maps, so any driver using the service for navigation ended up not at his address, but in parkland at Three Mills Green, Bromley-by-Bow, half a mile away as the crow flies, but a mile and a half to drive. What was an easily fixable error resulted in three years of frustration for Borghs, who first noticed the problem when an Uber driver took a wrong turn when taking him home.”
- karussell 6y ago
  You can also contribute this to OpenStreetMap :)

ISL 6y ago

Google Maps has functionality for reporting problems. I've done the same when it suggested an unsafe bicycle street-crossing and they updated the routing.

Triv888 6y ago
Google sure loves free employees...
- thesimon 6y ago
  As long as I don't have to pay obscene amounts for navigation, especially in the car, I don't mind.
  - Triv888 6y ago
    In my Mazda, I only had to buy a $30 SD card from Ebay to make navigation functional
    - capableweb 6y ago
      If I were you, I would stop buying random SD cards from the internet and connect to my devices, especially things like my car.
      - Triv888 6y ago
        lol, fair point... but they can probably hack it remotely anyways... Are you also of the opinion that you can't buy used phones?
        capableweb 6y ago
        > Are you also of the opinion that you can't buy used phones? Depends, if you want a throwaway phone for a call or two that are not important, go ahead. But if you're looking for a phone you'll keep for multiple years and you want the least possible risk of being tracked by someone else than who made your phone, then I would absolutely not buy a used phone. Small problem as OK phones can be bought for ~$100 or less in most parts of the world.
Someone 6y ago
It may take a while for such information to make it to the map. https://www.theguardian.com/money/2020/dec/20/google-maps-postcode-error-leads-delivery-drivers-on-wild-pizza-chase https://www.theguardian.com/money/2020/dec/20/google-maps-po...: “His problem was that the postcode for his east London flat was incorrect on Google Maps, so any driver using the service for navigation ended up not at his address, but in parkland at Three Mills Green, Bromley-by-Bow, half a mile away as the crow flies, but a mile and a half to drive. What was an easily fixable error resulted in three years of frustration for Borghs, who first noticed the problem when an Uber driver took a wrong turn when taking him home.”
karussell 6y ago
You can also contribute this to OpenStreetMap :)