| ▲ | JacobAsmuth an hour ago |
| You'd say that Google Maps hasn't improved much in the last 20 years? |
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| ▲ | jazzyjackson an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| It’s doing a great job making sure I know where Burger King is when zooming into a city |
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| ▲ | nightshift1 22 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | Interesting submission on that topic :
How Google Maps allocates survival across London's restaurants
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46203343 | |
| ▲ | tasty_freeze an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | No kidding. When I zoom in on a few square miles around my house and ask to see restaurants, it shows only a few of them even though there is plenty of space -- it isn't like it has to prune some to make it readable. I zoom in and some appear that weren't there before ... why? There was room to display it before I zoomed in. Gaaah! | |
| ▲ | rickypp an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | I started to notice "Turn left at the light, after the Chipotle™" last year... ads in my turn by turn navigation is next level innovation | | |
| ▲ | johannes1234321 37 minutes ago | parent [-] | | I believe that the initial idea there was to refer to notable landmarks and these company signs are readable from a distance. But yes, they could serve well as ad space. |
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| ▲ | boelboel an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It's been up and down for about 8-12 years. Problems get fixed and new ones get added without a particular direction, at least that's what it feels like as a regular user. Some come back years after they were first fixed. |
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| ▲ | walt_grata an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Id say it improved until about 2016, since then the additions have generally made the software worse. More overlays and popups
More needlessly verbose navigation instructions
Less predictable routes. Thats just the start |
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| ▲ | intexpress an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Apple Maps has been better than Google Maps for at least 10 years and nowadays the way that Google Maps improves is often just by copying Apple Maps |
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| ▲ | californical an hour ago | parent [-] | | I’ve agreed for a long time… Unfortunately though, Apple Maps just added Ads, so expect them to start having the same issues as Google Maps does (like showing big ads for every location whenever you’re moving around at the map). After Apple Maps being one of my favorite reasons for having an iPhone for the last 7ish years, I’m back to OpenStreetMaps mostly, or still Google to look up business hours. Sad… but having downloaded maps will probably be a good thing long-term |
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| ▲ | daedrdev an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Google has said to turn right at an intersection where you are turning left for years because it doesn't know about a T shaped intersection that tens of thousands use a day. |
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| ▲ | ElectricalTears an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Maps thinks it's fine to do a u-turn on the Sydney harbour bridge. |
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| ▲ | dlev_pika an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Google: HOW ABOUT SOME AI ON IT?!? You know you want it. Lmao |
