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> Maps has only become slower and less informative (I remember when it use to actually display everything that was in a location and not just the popular/paid f
by beaugunderson 2y ago
> Maps has only become slower and less informative (I remember when it use to actually display everything that was in a location and not just the popular/paid for stuff) since 2009
"Ground Truth" is truly dead... we've been to 25 states in the last year and the speed limits displayed in Maps were correct about 10% of the time.
- pixl97 2y agoEh, were you going to? If say it's accurate about 80% of the time and with in 10mph all of the time. About the only time it gets really confusing is when you're on stacked highways/interchanges.
- beaugunderson 2y agoMaybe in or near a large city… In the vast majority of the country it’s not even close (55 in a 25 recently, many hundreds of miles where it won’t even show a speed limit even on major freeways in Florida)
- yencabulator 2y agoAreas with multi-million populations get updated maybe every few months, and might import and manually fix up data from the official sources, e.g. city planning. Areas with tens of thousands of residents get updated on a multi-year schedule; a year-long construction related speed drop might remain in place for years after the construction ends. Truly remote areas are batch imported from other systems, traced out from satellite images, or some such. Mountain and desert roads are rough suggestions at best. This seems to have always been true of Google Maps.