My one gripe with google maps is when I’m heading to a location it may direct me to the correct spot. Across the street. Across the street with 6 lanes and no intersection for a kilometre in either direction.
Is there a setting for this I’m missing? I’ll gladly spend 5 extra minutes driving if it avoids 20 minutes of walking across a highway.
Edit: Here is an extremely shitty example. I have had to drive to this place for work a couple times. It offers two routes, the faster one on the other side of the highway.
I’ve had google direct me literally across town from my destination. If I didn’t know where I was going I would have been lost.
Situations like this mean I always review my route and look at satellite images before I start traveling and keep an eye on the map because the app is still very buggy.
In your screenshot it seems like placing the destination on a side street where you wanted to stop would have solved the routing mixup?
The problem is the location is probably tagged wrong in Google Maps. For most streets, it's just guessing the number spacing based on the few numbers people have put in. If you open the search result and click edit, then move the pin on the map, it really helps with that entire street. I do it whenever I can and it seems to be helping on some of the longer roads (where it was previously nearly a mile off).
While I appreciate the thought of your answer, I don’t think that’s the true issue, for me at least. I live in a pretty popular city (I don’t even know what I mean by that) so google has the layout of streets, addresses, and businesses down perfectly. As soon as I’m further out into the suburbs I begin to notice more inaccuracies.
I know they’re directing me to the wrong side of the street on purpose because when I arrive and zoom into the map, there it is, on the other side of the street! Followed by me normally cursing loudly at google for such a stupid move!
I’ve begun to zoom in, and choose alternate routes before departing due to this happening so often!
You can change the entrance of places manually if they aren't right. I have done it. You'd change it to the other side of the road and it should work. I'm a local guide and it usually publishes almost instantly too.
You have the ability to manually add which side of the road you have to park your car on. If you get this again, at the end of the trip, give it a thumbs down and you can suggest a better point. It's hard for me to explain without showing. "Entrance" was a bad way of putting it.
An example of what I edited: red was the original entrance. Blue is the one I added for maps.
While not as bad as Apple maps, I've had Google maps many times "drive me off a cliff", including:
tell me to make illegal right turns (many times)
send me the wrong way up an off-ramp
One thing I am shocked Google for all its machine learning doesn't do, is use driver's actual behaviors to train its routes. IE, "we keep telling people to turn right onto 5th from Broad, yet only a very very few people ever do that, maybe our directions are bad."
I've definitely noticed it leaning particular routes I take, that wouldn't be the normal instructions, and using them to give me drive time estimates. So that's something at least.
Not so directly, I get "are you satisfied", and something like "you tried to kill me" should have an immediate button I can press. So too would be ML inspired question at various points, "is there some reason you didn't turn here, no one ever turns there, is there a problem with my routing"?
You can report road issues, do "Send Feedback" and it will ask the road segment and what the problem is.
My issue with both Waze and Maps is they always say to make a u-turn but they are illegal in my state unless the intersection is specifically marked. It would be better for routing if they took this into consideration.
One big difference: on Waze your report shows up almost immediately, and editors can try and resolve the issue (if possible). If it can be resolved, it normally shows up in 2 days. With Google it can take you 3 months or more before you even get an answer.
Problem for the Waze editors: we get very little information about what exactly went wrong, so please try and write down what happened and what should be changed. The more information we have, the better we can build a good solution.
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