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City planners – let's build major thoroughfares so we can keep traffic away from residential neighborhoods. Google Maps – this tiny residential street looks em

by paxys 2y ago

City planners – let's build major thoroughfares so we can keep traffic away from residential neighborhoods. Google Maps – this tiny residential street looks empty, let's send a million cars through it.

Analemma_ 2y ago
If my taxes pay for it, I’m allowed to use it to reach my destination.
- pbhjpbhj 2y ago
  The adult version, or one of them, of "I'm not touching you" - "my taxes paid for it".
  - jeffbee 2y ago
    I think what they were saying is that for a person to believe that they have an exclusive proprietary interest in their "side street" is contrary to the fact that they are owned by the public.
pbhjpbhj 2y ago
I've found in the UK that Google Maps very heavily prefers major routes. That said, anything less than a motorway/A-road (trunk road) seems to get treated the same, whether it's a wide well marked road or a track with grass growing in the middle and foliage scraping the sides of the car. Do they use the same road weighting sets in all countries?
- mnw21cam 2y ago
  I find that for long distances, you're probably right, but for shorter distances, it definitely tries to route me down little tracks with grass growing down the middle and foliage scraping the sides of the car to cut the corner off a bend in a main road. I think the algorithm should probably weight more highly the time taken to reverse back to a passing point, and trying to turn right out of a tiny road into a busy main road behind a queue of ten other cars doing the same (which it fooled me into doing a while back). I agree with you that it doesn't seem to really know the difference between a less-major A road and a farm track. This makes navigating over Dartmoor interesting. And the roads are the wrong colours. </grumble>
Workaccount2 2y ago
I swear that google has done something to stop this from happening. It seems I can now find better routes through traffic than just blindly following google maps, which I can understand doesn't want to reroute rt-80 through Hemlock ln.
IncreasePosts 2y ago
That was always more of a Waze thing. Which, granted, is owned by Google, but I don't think the Google maps algorithms make the same get there sooner at any cost kind of choices as waze

by paxys 2y ago

Analemma_ 2y ago

If my taxes pay for it, I’m allowed to use it to reach my destination.

pbhjpbhj 2y ago
The adult version, or one of them, of "I'm not touching you" - "my taxes paid for it".
- jeffbee 2y ago
  I think what they were saying is that for a person to believe that they have an exclusive proprietary interest in their "side street" is contrary to the fact that they are owned by the public.

pbhjpbhj 2y ago

I've found in the UK that Google Maps very heavily prefers major routes. That said, anything less than a motorway/A-road (trunk road) seems to get treated the same, whether it's a wide well marked road or a track with grass growing in the middle and foliage scraping the sides of the car. Do they use the same road weighting sets in all countries?

mnw21cam 2y ago
I find that for long distances, you're probably right, but for shorter distances, it definitely tries to route me down little tracks with grass growing down the middle and foliage scraping the sides of the car to cut the corner off a bend in a main road. I think the algorithm should probably weight more highly the time taken to reverse back to a passing point, and trying to turn right out of a tiny road into a busy main road behind a queue of ten other cars doing the same (which it fooled me into doing a while back). I agree with you that it doesn't seem to really know the difference between a less-major A road and a farm track. This makes navigating over Dartmoor interesting. And the roads are the wrong colours. </grumble>

Workaccount2 2y ago

I swear that google has done something to stop this from happening. It seems I can now find better routes through traffic than just blindly following google maps, which I can understand doesn't want to reroute rt-80 through Hemlock ln.

IncreasePosts 2y ago

That was always more of a Waze thing. Which, granted, is owned by Google, but I don't think the Google maps algorithms make the same get there sooner at any cost kind of choices as waze