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#2Usually happens due to very high uncertainty in localization estimates.
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#3Usually happens due to very high uncertainty in localization estimates.
I have it happen to me over and over again when Waze has my GPS coordinates. Its uncertainty is on the level of where I am in my house, and not which town I'm in.
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#4I'm working on b2b software and when working with the designers at http://fairpixels.pro I've learned many things from their approach as to why (a lot of) software sucks. Personal example: I've been measuring qualitative feedback users have been giving us and passing it to them to make design updates. They (design team) would come back with me with questions about data & metrics. They were more interested in what the users DID vs what they told me. This sounds small, but has made a huge difference in the way I look at product design & development. The things users told us in a few cases, didn't match the way they were acting in the product. After some research, we found out why and managed to redesign those features and solve the problems.
The thing with most software, just like ours, is that many of us engineers don't have the deeper design knowledge to really understand how a product needs to be build from a user's perspective.
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#5Unrelated but similar and I feel like venting... On Google Maps you'll search for something, and the results are shown as a list that almost covers the entire map. It's Google MAPS and it hides the map for so many things. I'd rather go to a place that's 3 miles straight down a free way than 2 miles of stop lights, but I don't know that if the map is covered!
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#6Have had this problem many many times, maybe someone from big G will tell us why
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#7I think the clock icon next to the entries they're complaining about means that it's surfacing them because the user had looked at those particular stores' search results before, and would likely want to revisit those search results.
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#8Usually happens due to very high uncertainty in localization estimates.
By adding a distance measurement they've solidified a best-guess, though.
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#9Usually happens due to very high uncertainty in localization estimates.
Looks like it prioritized historical locations over nearby locations. The little clock icon usually represents a prior location that was selected.
Could be an interesting design approach to know which locations are "fungible". I.e., one Wawa is as good as another, but your parent's house isn't a replacement for mine [1].
[1] I'm sure your parents are very nice, of course :)
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#10The HN hug of death strikes again.
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