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Google (Maps?) has done the car parking location for 10+ years. But like many things Google, Google software is not well integrated with itself, and discoverabi

by lopis 3y ago

Google (Maps?) has done the car parking location for 10+ years. But like many things Google, Google software is not well integrated with itself, and discoverability is bad. It's perfectly possible that this feature has been removed and re-added several times during the last decade, as is the fate of many Google projects.

troupo 3y ago
Yup, Google Maps automatically marks the location of your parked car... Until once in a blue moon it doesn't. This happened to me just yesterday. Thankfully, Apple Maps marked it automatically, too
yurishimo 3y ago
It still works but only in certain circumstances. You need to navigate to a destination that is far enough away and visited less frequently as to be categorized as a visit. Maps will not save your parking location in front of your office, for example. If I leave an airtag in my car, I will always know where it is because my phone is constantly looking for the BT signal.
- Tildey 3y ago
  Just to add, in the Find My app, you can whitelist (or blacklist depending on how you look at it I suppose) addresses that it won’t notify you about. So I don’t get a notification when I leave my iPad at home, but I do whenever I leave it at work, for example.
- lopis 3y ago
  And that's what I mean. The idea is there, and they have all your location data, but the feature is not polished, it's inconsistent, and not reliable, so it might as well not exist.
somethingsome 3y ago
My car is apparently parked on the same spot from 3 years according to Google maps, however it's very far from my house and I never go there, no idea how to unpin that location and set new ones.
WeylandYutani 3y ago
I use a seperate app for car navigation. Can't trust Google. But a lot of people apparently want a single "super" app that does everything. Musk was right about that- we're all going to see a Western WeChat emerge. All hail integration.
- lopis 3y ago
  Google and Microsoft have the resources and market penetration to create a Western WeChat, but these companies are too fragmented internally, so their various teams will never be able to work together to pull it off. Apple will probably be the one creating something like a "super ecosystem", but reserved for Apple users of course. I can't imagine any other company pulling it off. Amazon could but its reputation seems so bad lately that I doubt people would jump in. So I find it incredibly hard to believe that a true "Western WeChat" could emerge any time soon.

by lopis 3y ago

troupo 3y ago

Yup, Google Maps automatically marks the location of your parked car... Until once in a blue moon it doesn't. This happened to me just yesterday. Thankfully, Apple Maps marked it automatically, too

yurishimo 3y ago

It still works but only in certain circumstances. You need to navigate to a destination that is far enough away and visited less frequently as to be categorized as a visit. Maps will not save your parking location in front of your office, for example. If I leave an airtag in my car, I will always know where it is because my phone is constantly looking for the BT signal.

Tildey 3y ago
Just to add, in the Find My app, you can whitelist (or blacklist depending on how you look at it I suppose) addresses that it won’t notify you about. So I don’t get a notification when I leave my iPad at home, but I do whenever I leave it at work, for example.
lopis 3y ago
And that's what I mean. The idea is there, and they have all your location data, but the feature is not polished, it's inconsistent, and not reliable, so it might as well not exist.

somethingsome 3y ago

My car is apparently parked on the same spot from 3 years according to Google maps, however it's very far from my house and I never go there, no idea how to unpin that location and set new ones.

WeylandYutani 3y ago

I use a seperate app for car navigation. Can't trust Google. But a lot of people apparently want a single "super" app that does everything. Musk was right about that- we're all going to see a Western WeChat emerge. All hail integration.

lopis 3y ago
Google and Microsoft have the resources and market penetration to create a Western WeChat, but these companies are too fragmented internally, so their various teams will never be able to work together to pull it off. Apple will probably be the one creating something like a "super ecosystem", but reserved for Apple users of course. I can't imagine any other company pulling it off. Amazon could but its reputation seems so bad lately that I doubt people would jump in. So I find it incredibly hard to believe that a true "Western WeChat" could emerge any time soon.