Google Maps

“I've actually just straight up used Google maps for high latitude archaeology when a grant for imagery fell through.”

“Lately I've been marveling at their decision on Maps to take up a third of the screen with a button to change the color of the arrow”

“Smartphone navigation is going to be a lot better (in my experience) and Google, Apple privacy terms are greatly superior.”

“Google was the second easiest but still took me deep into the feedback menu and then a week or two of waiting.”

“Seeing the total record of incorrect stuff that i had fruitlessly spent my own spare moments to fix convinced me to quit doing any free work for Google.”

“GMaps can be extremely slow when it comes to responding to user reports, or updating regional info like road networks or new subdivisions.”

“Yeah go ahead and completely change the scale of what I’m looking at a night quite predictable time just as I’m about to need the map the most”

“It is always showing the perspective looking straight ahead of your current direction, even when you're approaching a sharp turn.”

“Google Maps (at least in the US, in my experience) is really great about telling you what lane to be in.”

“Google Maps has a better excuse for wanting to be an app than most since a primary use case on mobile is turn-by-turn navigation.”

“Except people that have experience with Google Maps have watched it flag upcoming traffic congestion and explicitly reroute you”

“Almost every part of the US that is East of the Mississippi is stored offline in my phone with Google Maps.”

“Here's a tip if you use google maps: if you want to get from A to B but can walk a bit, just pick a point C between them then look up directions to and from point C separately. Works great”

“It's fine for pure walking directions, but it gets unhappy about the idea of someone using public transport walking.”

“Google is able to have such an up to date place database because it relies on a large quantity of crowdsourced submissions”

“Google maps might give turn by turn navigation but that is an overwhelming and largely irrelevant mess of details for most planning purposes.”

“Was always of the belief that they SHOULD be considering things like scarcity in the various recommendations the apps in their offerings provide.”

“Google Maps is very good at showing car parking spaces, which is the requirement if you live in a suburb in California like its developers.”

“For a standalone shop or restaurant the opening hours situation is usually still better with Google Maps rather than OSM.”

“there's still no option to penalize intersections. I'm still getting absurd side-street routes and unprotected lefts/crossings to save 1 minute on a 20-minute trip.”

“GMail and Google Maps were revolutionary when they came out, sure, but the vast majority of Google's products now are... fine?”

“If for the past ~20 years nobody has come up with something clearly better, then I would say that speaks to how outstanding the product that are being copied are to this day.”

“Maps & Gmail & Search all have plenty of accumulating flaws... but they also completely defined their product category”

“Google Maps is way better at searching for things like restaurants or local businesses but not as much the nav part.”

“for exploring your local area, finding restaurants, retail or other businesses it's hard to ignore unfortunately”

“Google Maps is hellbent on giving you ANY results. I can't think of any recent search where it doesn't zoom out to most of Belgium”

“YouTube (and Google Maps, and old.reddit.com but not default reddit) I find to be better on the website than the app.”

“It might be enough to lock me into using Google to find local businesses I didn’t know about before”

“Google maps works okay on slow connections if you download the tiles for the city you're in beforehand”

“If I had to choose between a map from Google maps and a map from an LLM I'd trust the map from google maps any day.”

“Google Maps and your service aren't the only two choices though, there are plenty of easy ways to display a map in a gdpr-friendly way.”

“it still happily recommends me take the "fastest" route through a street that's under construction for 2 months now”

“I submit photos and corrections to maps all the time, because those photos and corrections help me as well as other people.”

“The amount of value Google Maps has given me is far beyond what I'd be willing to pay in actual dollars.”

“I now have an "aerial" button in the bottom left corner when viewing Street View imagery that switches between the two.”

“Google maps main advantage was streetview, but if Google maps stopped existing we wouldn't go back to proprietary closed mapping solutions.”

“Google has the additional caveat that they record location history and therefore might be subject to geofence warrants”

“It's actually much worse than that. I will often see the business name as I'm zooming in, but if I zoom too far, it's no longer available.”

“The most annoying thing is when you search for instance for "Chinese restaurants" and Google maps shows me Japanese restaurants while hiding actual Chinese restaurants.”

“Personally I love going to completely unknown restaurants that has just opened and have zero reviews yet which Google Maps helps with too”