Asklemmy

44183 readers

1285 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
!lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

283

Is Google Maps getting worse? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by hperrin@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

157 comments fedilink hide all child comments

My dad uses Google Maps, and he mentioned that it seems to be getting worse. Like, giving him directions that are obviously worse than alternatives. Has anyone else here experienced this?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] sloppy_diffuser@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I've been getting weird walking instructions. Like 6 min walk is +30 to avoid some invisible barrier.

[–] Soku@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I live in a city with great public transport and for years Google maps was great for bus/tube times and walking routes. Now after 6 years of no probs Google maps has forgotten the bus stop right under my window and thinks I should walk up or down the road to the next stop. It has forgotten the crossings what are still there, no road works or anything, and thinks I should take 15 min detour instead of just crossing the street right then and there. It's clearly going downhill here.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Those invisible intangible barriers can be tricky like that.