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It's inflammatory, but this website is worse. There's some video playing of a stranger eating mustard skittles taking up the bottom quarter of the screen.
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Have you tried Waze? I find that better at detecting jams and routing around them.
I tried it. It started pinging me mid drive to call out the nearby Burger King or something and offer to reroute me there. Last thing I need when I’m trying to navigate unfamiliar urban areas while operating a heavy piece of machinery at high speed is more distractions and more things to process.
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It's deeply concerning that the only alternative to Google Maps being terrible is to use Google's Waze. The only thing stopping another Inbox situation is the threat of anti-competition law.
What do you mean another Inbox situation?
...he complained, in an article on a website where 30% of vertical space is used by an autoplay video ad featuring an idiot asking me whether I'd eat "mustard Skittles".
Ironic.
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Worth adding that information to open street maps so that it available for other maps too.
Compare the experience of adding stuff to OSM and to Google Maps. Much easier. OSM is for nerds. Very hard to add even basic info. Google Maps it’s trivial. Same as uploading photo to Google Maps is easier than adding it to WikiMedia Commons. Such is life. (Ironically one of the biggest sources of photos is commons is Panoramio; before Google merged it with Google Maps, the photos there defaulted to Creative Commons.…
To add new features I have to use SCEE, which is more nerdy mainly because it involves using FDroid to install it. But I've no idea how to add, say a park bench to Google Maps.
Is it just me or have you guys also noticed that the routes suggested by Google Maps have gotten worse? It seems that it only takes into account current traffic jams and not the ones which will occur 30mins into the trip. For instance, there's this spot in my city where I know there is a traffic jam at around 3:20 PM every day. I usually set off from home around 2:50 PM, which means I'll hit that congested area by 3:…
I came here to look for someone talking about it and totally agree, Google Maps routes are getting really worse over time and now I switched to Apple Maps almost exclusively. I can understand the jam thing but the weird route thing is crazy, especially because that route often makes you spend more time not less. It prefers weird backroads with lots of turns instead of straight larger roads (and that's stupid) but a t…
Part of that could be driving style.
Getting to one nearby city really has two main routes for me—the single lane highway, or the backroads with a bunch of weird turns and stuff.
You hop on the highway and besides a couple of towns you pass through you more or less just space out for an hour and then you’re there. Your speed on the highway is pretty much fixed. There’s heavy enough traffic that even if you were to try and pass and drive aggressively you’re never really beating the map estimate. Often you come in a bit longer because it only takes one person doing 15-20 under the speed limit to just create a rolling roadblock.
The back roads, however, are basically empty. How fast you get there is pretty much up to you.
The highway is faster and less stressful for my wife. The back roads are faster and less stressful for me. I’m not even speeding much or driving aggressively. I’m just comfortable actually doing the speed limit through those areas and passing where necessary.
All this data they slurp up about me, and they can't even figure out that I checked into my hotel and slept in it last night, and am probably not looking for another nearby hotel today. Or that I never go to nightclubs, and probably won't be going to one today either. They say they collect data to improve their products, not just to sell it to advertisers. I believe they sell it to advertisers, I'm starting to suspect they don't use it to make better products at all.
I just find that the UI is nicer to use and look at and it seems to be more performant and smoother.
I haven't really had any problems getting to where I need to go using Apple Maps. Maybe it doesn't work well in some countries and places, but it seems to work perfectly fine where I need it to.