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How often do people need directions to a place where they have been before? Most of the time I don't need directions once I've driven there. However, I have got

How often do people need directions to a place where they have been before? Most of the time I don't need directions once I've driven there. However, I have gotten stuck in traffic because I didn't check if it the regular route was the fastest way there.

mcmire 15y ago
Yeah well, some of us are horrendous at directions and sadly rely on GPS for everything, even to places we've been 30 times :P
Nate75Sanders 15y ago
Your last sentence -- I use GPS almost everywhere I'm driving because of the real-time traffic data.
- georgemcbay 15y ago
  Same here. I use Google Nav everywhere I go, even when I know how to get to the location. I even use it on the ride home from work every day because the exit closest to my apartment (Balboa/Garnet on the 5, for those in the San Diego area) has a tendency to clog up easily due to multiple red lights right off the exit. Google Nav lets me know if I should get off there (most direct route) or take the 52 to Clairemont Dr and circle around (less direct, less likely to be traffic clogged), depending upon the real-time traffic data.
millzlane 15y ago
It's nice for people who's routes may change depending on traffic or events. Because maps uses the traffic info to update your routes also.
dredmorbius 15y ago
Public transit -- schedules vary and in many places you now have realtime arrival information. Depending on circumstances, on route may be preferable to another. So yes, I'll have a few frequently traveled routes I look up frequently. While we're at it: annoyance with the NextBus mobile website and apps: inability to bookmark specific trips, specify travel in terms of "I'm here, I want to be there, what's the fastest way" (I've got about a half dozen options available to me). Also a way for transit agencies to disclose issues (I've learned that several trains/buses with identical arrival times holding at several minutes out probably means some upstream blockage), and to identify routes on which there's going to be a service change (there's a route I follow which has usual destination, but a fair number of vehicles deviate from it to provide pull-through service to another location in an entirely useless direction). That said, realtime transit arrival/scheduling information is a huge win. I can remember a time when it was a pipe dream.

mcmire 15y ago

Yeah well, some of us are horrendous at directions and sadly rely on GPS for everything, even to places we've been 30 times :P

Nate75Sanders 15y ago

Your last sentence -- I use GPS almost everywhere I'm driving because of the real-time traffic data.

georgemcbay 15y ago
Same here. I use Google Nav everywhere I go, even when I know how to get to the location. I even use it on the ride home from work every day because the exit closest to my apartment (Balboa/Garnet on the 5, for those in the San Diego area) has a tendency to clog up easily due to multiple red lights right off the exit. Google Nav lets me know if I should get off there (most direct route) or take the 52 to Clairemont Dr and circle around (less direct, less likely to be traffic clogged), depending upon the real-time traffic data.

millzlane 15y ago

It's nice for people who's routes may change depending on traffic or events. Because maps uses the traffic info to update your routes also.

dredmorbius 15y ago

Public transit -- schedules vary and in many places you now have realtime arrival information. Depending on circumstances, on route may be preferable to another. So yes, I'll have a few frequently traveled routes I look up frequently. While we're at it: annoyance with the NextBus mobile website and apps: inability to bookmark specific trips, specify travel in terms of "I'm here, I want to be there, what's the fastest way" (I've got about a half dozen options available to me). Also a way for transit agencies to disclose issues (I've learned that several trains/buses with identical arrival times holding at several minutes out probably means some upstream blockage), and to identify routes on which there's going to be a service change (there's a route I follow which has usual destination, but a fair number of vehicles deviate from it to provide pull-through service to another location in an entirely useless direction). That said, realtime transit arrival/scheduling information is a huge win. I can remember a time when it was a pipe dream.