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Google Maps keeps getting worse
2 points by quintussss on June 1, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments
I live in Vienna, Austria. Whenever I try to search for a route by train on Google maps it keeps recommending bike routes. If I had a bike available, I would have searched for it, so why are you suggesting me to ride my bike if I want to go by train?

Sorry for the rant but I just feel like Google is going down hill




Yep. It's bad.

It's getting worse and worse at finding places. The fuzzy AI-based search suffers from the same problems as the Google Search counterpart. It tries to get what you mean, while you know what you mean.

It also tends to return a maximum number of results, meaning that it omits random places. I don't want to see some restaurants scattered in the neighborhood, but all restaurants near me.

The UI is catastrophic. How many times do I have to click "X" or "back" to get to the search bar? Why does it keep wildly panning the map away from what I'm looking at? Why can't I search for something without losing the route? Why can't it keep the screen awake without a destination? Why won't it accept that I don't want the shorter route?

OsmAnd is much better in many ways. I love how I can ride my motorbike while displaying photo radars, petrol station and cafés at once. I can also create a multipoint route as I go without manually entering random addresses.


I just tried to get 7 random routes across Vienna by bicycle and not a single one suggested the train.

I cannot reproduce your complaint at all. Do you have an example you can share? This seems false.


Have you tried Apple Maps? I feel it's been getting better a lot (though I don't know how well it fares in Vienna).




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