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Google Maps is just a live traffic data set now. I use it during my commute, and its ability to tell me the speed limit of a road segment is deteriorating over
by cjs_ac 2y ago
Google Maps is just a live traffic data set now. I use it during my commute, and its ability to tell me the speed limit of a road segment is deteriorating over time. Google doesn't need any fancy machine learning algorithms to work out what the speed limit of a road is; they just need to work with local governments to get their databases of speed limits. The whole product increasingly reeks of issues that couldn't be replicated in an open-plan office in Mountain View, so probably aren't real.
- jeffbee 2y ago"Google Maps is not up-to-date enough on the speed limits along the route I drive 10 times per week" is among the dumber complaints I've read. Google of course does what they can to update speed limits. Coverage varies[1]. Some content on Google Maps is provided by government content partners[2]. 1: https://developers.google.com/maps/coverage#countryregion-coverage-for-core-mapping-features https://developers.google.com/maps/coverage#countryregion-co... 2: https://support.google.com/mapcontentpartners/answer/144284#zippy=%2Csupported-file-types-for-google-maps-content-partners-gmcp%2Csupported-types-of-data https://support.google.com/mapcontentpartners/answer/144284#...