What Are You Doing Right Now
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said
You should get one of those Google Cars and let them do the driving for you!
Make sure to put it on super aggressive driving mode, otherwise wherever you're headed to will take an extra 12 hours...
I'm concerned about using a Google Car given what Google GPS does. Routinely it takes us on things that aren't roads, into dangerous situations and on roads that take twice as long as the normal route you'd just pick by looking at a map.
I've never had Google send me down something that isn't a road... but it has definitely gotten lost in the town square, lol.
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I think the issue that @scottalanmiller has is that he's using it in parts of the world not as well documented as streets in America / UK
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@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said
You should get one of those Google Cars and let them do the driving for you!
Make sure to put it on super aggressive driving mode, otherwise wherever you're headed to will take an extra 12 hours...
I'm concerned about using a Google Car given what Google GPS does. Routinely it takes us on things that aren't roads, into dangerous situations and on roads that take twice as long as the normal route you'd just pick by looking at a map.
I've never had Google send me down something that isn't a road... but it has definitely gotten lost in the town square, lol.
We had it turn us onto roads that were replaced with buildings decades ago just yesterday. Wrong ways on one ways. Down a road that was in such bad repair that it tore the front bumper off of the car earlier this week. It will avoid major highways that are perfectly good and fast and send you down back streets in cities so narrow that the car almost can't make it down.
It's totally ridiculous.
I've been in places where it sent me to bridges that were so long gone that no one could remember them and the area had turned into a shanty town and it was totally unsafe to be there and Google said it was the main route into the city!
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@scottalanmiller How often are google's street cars seen in the parts of the world that you travel in?
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller How often are google's street cars seen in the parts of the world that you travel in?
Never, including my travels in the US. But Google GPS technology is just as common everywhere but it is dangerously poor in many places (most places?)
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But google's GPS technology and Maps are specifically built off of the google cars driving around the roads in those area's.
Otherwise they are based solely from satellite pictures of the region, which would be as useful as you describe.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
But google's GPS technology and Maps are specifically built off of the google cars driving around the roads in those area's.
Otherwise they are based solely from satellite pictures of the region, which would be as useful as you describe.
Oh, you mean the Google cars, not the Google self driving cars? I've never seen one anywhere, including in the US. They have street level views, so it can't be satellite. I'm sure there cars are here the same, more or less, as anywhere else.
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I know paper maps are rough in a digital age, but choosing to rely on technology in such far to reach places where big business doesn't have an interest isn't big businesses fault.
If there was money to made there, then there would be effort to develop those area's and the tech in the region.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I know paper maps are rough in a digital age, but choosing to rely on technology in such far to reach places where big business doesn't have an interest isn't big businesses fault.
I wouldn't call the downtown intersection of a major capital city an out of the way place or a place where there isn't big business. Deutsche Telekom tower is on the intersection, as is the national opera and a municipal renovation project that puts Disney World to shame.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
If there was money to made there, then there would be effort to develop those area's and the tech in the region.
Remember, this is a region that has been Internet than where you are from
I'm in a city four times the size of Rochester, with vastly better Internet. -
And I'm only 20 minutes away from the largest US military base in Europe.
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@scottalanmiller Better internet doesn't equate to better value for google to pay people to drive the streets in the area like they do in the US /UK.
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Here is what it looks like just behind where Google has the roads dangerously wrong..
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller Better internet doesn't equate to better value for google to pay people to drive the streets in the area like they do in the US /UK.
Far easily to pay them here. And Google's dangerously inaccurate data here impacts their business in the US, too. I'd find it unlikely that they are avoiding it, my concern is that it is wrong.
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I'm not saying that there aren't pluses to the area, but that big business has little reason to invest in things like google maps for the region.
Google has probably only once or twice looked at the region (from a Google Maps perspective) and never thought about it since.
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Might I suggest you make a recommendation regarding the Google Maps conditions here.
https://www.google.com/mapmaker
Enter the country / city and the details you know are wrong.
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@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said
You should get one of those Google Cars and let them do the driving for you!
Make sure to put it on super aggressive driving mode, otherwise wherever you're headed to will take an extra 12 hours...
I'm concerned about using a Google Car given what Google GPS does. Routinely it takes us on things that aren't roads, into dangerous situations and on roads that take twice as long as the normal route you'd just pick by looking at a map.
I've never had Google send me down something that isn't a road... but it has definitely gotten lost in the town square, lol.
I've had google try to send me over an unpaved mountain pass before, luckily I check the routes I drive before I drive them.
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@brianlittlejohn said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said
You should get one of those Google Cars and let them do the driving for you!
Make sure to put it on super aggressive driving mode, otherwise wherever you're headed to will take an extra 12 hours...
I'm concerned about using a Google Car given what Google GPS does. Routinely it takes us on things that aren't roads, into dangerous situations and on roads that take twice as long as the normal route you'd just pick by looking at a map.
I've never had Google send me down something that isn't a road... but it has definitely gotten lost in the town square, lol.
I've had google try to send me over an unpaved mountain pass before, luckily I check the routes I drive before I drive them.
If a turn looks funky, I simply won't take it. If I'm not expecting a dirt road, or it looks like it will take a 4x4 to get through, I simply ignore it when it tells me to turn that way and eventually it rights itself.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I'm not saying that there aren't pluses to the area, but that big business has little reason to invest in things like google maps for the region.
Google has probably only once or twice looked at the region (from a Google Maps perspective) and never thought about it since.
Except we know that that isn't the issue. The cars have pictures of roads that have been closed for twenty years or more. They show current construction. So they've been here quite recently, maybe within a few months. These roads had to be closed before Google was even a company - the buildings where the road should be, while not ancient, are certainly quite old. I would guess 40+ years but no way to be sure, but 20 years I can't see how it would be younger than that.
All over the region the issue is not that the maps are out of date, it's that Google's mapping algorithms are just insane. Dirt roads or back streets instead of highways, that Google knows about. Crazy winding roads to avoid 1/10th of a mile on a highway. It's bizarre and insane.
But their maps are up to date, just the logic telling you where to go is broken.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Might I suggest you make a recommendation regarding the Google Maps conditions here.
https://www.google.com/mapmaker
Enter the country / city and the details you know are wrong.
It's everywhere, it's the decision making of their GPS that is primarily what is wrong.
