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Navigation in cities has also started to become a problem in the last decade, as more and more cities try to reduce car traffic E.g., there's a "no car" street
by eisa01 3y ago
Navigation in cities has also started to become a problem in the last decade, as more and more cities try to reduce car traffic
E.g., there's a "no car" street near me where the access restrictions are not on Google Maps. I've submitted the changes a month ago, to no avail. I resubmitted a week ago, as I could not find any trace of my reports.
The restrictions can be seen on the past 3+ years of Streetview footage...
There are rumours the restrictions have been correctly mapped, but subsequently removed due to telemetry data (cars frequently drive there anyways, as there's no enforcement and also a lot of crappy navigation systems from Here Maps :) )
Apple Maps and OSM have them, the former finally getting it right after they rolled out their own maps. There's no excuse when it's public data in the Road Authority database...
- dpacmittal 3y agoI've noticed gmaps has stopped providing optimal routes when navigating. Just yesterday I was driving to the airport and it showed me a very unusual route which it has never recommended before, the time to destination was 1h30min. It was strange because the usual route doesn't usually have traffic, so I decided to take the usual route instead. The time dropped to 1h10min. For the rest of the route it kept showing me unusual routes and I kept ignoring it taking the usual route instead. At one point it started showing time to destination at 1h50min. It took me 1h and I had to ignore the gmaps at least 5 times until there was no alternate route available.