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This issue with not being able to identify street names became a massive problem for me while traveling in Iraly this year. When walking from place to place in
by rhaway84773 4y ago
This issue with not being able to identify street names became a massive problem for me while traveling in Iraly this year.
When walking from place to place in cities, I like to memorize the entire path so I can actually look around on my walk as opposed to having my face buried in the phone. But Google Maps made it almost impossible to identify the names of at least half the streets I would try to know (so I know what streets to turn into, etc). Looking at the text directions doesn’t help because my memorization requires me to have a mental image of the path, and correlating the text directions with the maps image is way too time consuming.
Now, this actual use case might be rare. But the idea that a map cannot be used to identify street names in large European cities is just terrible. And for comparison, I’ve done this for over a decade and I don’t remember this ever being a problem before say 2017-2018 even though I was visiting far smaller cities over that period.
- euroderf 4y agoOpenStreetMap has similar problem. Often, finding a street name requires futile, fumbly scrolling and resizing. Quite frustrating.
- flusensieb 4y agoOn the main website you can use the "query features"-function. It even returns roads first and shows their name if its set. In the Organic Maps-app, in osmAnd and in MagicEarth long tapping on a place returns the nearest street name or address.
- onetokeoverthe 4y ago[dead]