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So they'll default to showing directions for biking, walking, and transit?
by jld 6y ago
So they'll default to showing directions for biking, walking, and transit?
- tehjoker 6y agoAt least for cars, it makes little sense because the dominant factor is going to be the time on the road, which they in theory have been trying to minimize already. Any additional micro-optimizations are going to be fractional.
- datavirtue 6y agoUnless of course they optimize for me not driving under a train bridge with my camper. That would be a big help. I wish they took into account the vehicle you are driving.
- girzel 6y agoI've been looking at OSMAnd's nav settings while reading this thread, and they do indeed let you create a driving profile that includes vehicle dimensions and max speed!
- tehjoker 6y agoCan you elaborate? I'm not sure I understood. I've never driven a camper.
- mh- 6y agoI assume they mean the bridge clearance vs vehicle height. /r/11foot8 has some amusing examples.
- thescriptkiddie 6y agoA pet peeve of mine is that google maps doesn't show most transit routes on the map. There is a transit layer you can enable, but it only shows metro and light rail, not buses, brt, trams, ferries, etc.
- CameronNemo 6y agoMy pet peeve is that there is no hybrid bike/transit routing option. If you choose transit, they assume you are pedestrian. Maybe the option is there and I just have not found it.
- dabreegster 6y agoI believe Citymapper has the edge on multi-modal routing, at least if they support your city.
- throwawayfire 6y agoCitymapper at least tries, but is still bad for bike+public transport. I look at the options that Citymapper gives and then have to recalculate the route, in my head, correcting for wrong decisions about where I'll have access to a bike. (Yes, it'll be quicker if I cycle my own bike from my home to the nearest station. No, I won't be cycling a hire bike 111 minutes away from its closest docking port.)
- ashkankiani 6y agoThey started doing this in Tokyo with the latest rollout which included the Live view (about 2 months ago?). I was also aggressively peeved by it.
- jeffbee 6y agoThis is a problem with GTFS. Firstly, that GTFS has separate enumerators for trains vs. buses, and only shows stuff that identifies itself as trains, but also because most agencies do not provide route shapes that are good enough to display. Often the routes run right down the centerlines of roads, cut through buildings at corners, etc. There would have to be a revolution in local government agency GIS quality control before it works right.
- TulliusCicero 6y agoI feel like Google itself could probably clean up the route presentation, given their own understanding of the roads.