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FYI that uses their Live View to look at building and street view around you to better orient you. Kind of matches what you photo with what they know and orient
by darkwizard42 5y ago
FYI that uses their Live View to look at building and street view around you to better orient you. Kind of matches what you photo with what they know and orients you. Incredibly useful in places like Japan where you don’t have many readable street signs or dense urban canyons.
It has nothing to do with some crazy nefarious google plot.
- matt_heimer 5y agoDo you know for sure that those pictures aren't uploaded to Google? Maybe not nefarious but its crazy that my gps navigation app prompts me to start taking pictures while driving to improve accuracy.
- darkwizard42 5y agoThe feature only works while walking [0]. [0]https://www.pocket-lint.com/apps/news/google/147956-what-is-google-maps-ar-navigation-and-how-do-you-use-it https://www.pocket-lint.com/apps/news/google/147956-what-is-...
- matt_heimer 5y agoMight be related but not the same thing as I've experienced. I'm in maps (not navigating, usually just selecting a location) and driving and I get a promote to improve the accuracy (similar to the one where you'd rotate your phone to calibrate the compass). I am not trying to use AR and the prompt doesn't take me to AR, it just wants to scan the area with the camera and then its done.