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Re: The New Google Maps

#191
A couple use cases that I'm still waiting for on mapping applications:

- I have a bike, and a pass that gets me on any local bus or light rail car. Busses and light rail cars can carry people with bikes. What are the best two or three route options from point A to B using some combination of bike routes and public transit?

- I am already following a route to get somewhere. Suddenly I decide I want/need to stop at a (gas station | cafe | restaurant | other). Make it easy to find such a place (optimizing for not taking me too far off my route, and doing it soon if it's a long route), add it to the route, and don't forget the original destination.

Google Maps on Android seemed farther along than iOS last I used it, but neither really handled these use cases well, last I tried.

Re: The New Google Maps

#192

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For some reason, Kerguelen island and quite a few others in the Indian Ocean don't even exist on Nokia's maps.

Nokia's maps, judging from what here.com shows, seem to be essentially useless outside the U.S./Europe. Japan/Korea/etc are essentially not covered at all ... they don't even seem to have any roads except for the most major highways—Tokyo on here.com literally has like five roads!—and what very little data they do have is often wrong. Even Apple does vastly better... oO;

YMMV.

I've used it in South Africa, Mozambique, Botswana and Namibia, and was very impressed. Little tracks that hardly qualify as a road are there, and reliable. The other big deal in that part of the world is that both maps and navigation are 100% functional when offline.

Re: The New Google Maps

#193

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I think coldtea was implying that there's something else that 13 year old boys (assumption from GP name) generally want more than anything, and it's generally a bit more physical than Gmail invites.

Not to mention they don't listen to ..."TWiT with Leo Laporte "!

Man I loved that podcast for some reason. I was a weird kid.
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