I swear that with each update they’re adding more and more artificial stupidity
The Magic Earth app on Android auto does this to me all the time, I’ll bring up a saved address that’s only a short drive away and it will say it’s like 2000km away until I actually start navigation.
Try giving Android Auto the location permission and see if that fixes it.
Sometimes I really struggle to understand how Google Maps works. I take some time finding the right area I want to search in, center the map in a very specific place, then search for a term or category and then it takes me to a completely different country to show the results.
It was doing this to me yesterday, kind of infuriating.
It would have been amusing to see the route trajectory
Google maps has been getting worse as well. I’ve been moving off after many years of using it.
What do you use? I tried OSM but found the navigation interface required too many taps on hidden menus to set up and to close. It’s easy to re route on the fly on Google and just tap finish when arrived, but that’s not the case for OSM.
Osm+. It took a long time to set up, but it was worth it. What also helped is downloading as many local maps as possible and set up favorites. It’s not perfect, but for what I use it for, I like it.
Osm is okay, but honestly so far behind GMaps that I’d rather go blind than trust it. Better chance to arrive.
It’s still the closest and of course beats Apple Maps but being lost beats Apple Maps. But it also highlights how good Google Maps is at navigation.
If you rather go blind than trusting any digital maps, then the only other option is going back to old fashion paper maps that existed before Google Maps was a thing.
And then you see the route trajectory making you turn into a river to flood your vehicle, or worse, have you turn onto a beach because the route trajectory goes right into the ocean like it thinks you are driving some sort of boat mobile.
Everybody’s in here complaining but the app just wanted to show its user the rip in space and time it discovered just down the street.
And you may find yourself in another part of the world
And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile
And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife
And you may ask yourself “how did I end up here?”
And you may ask yourself “Well, how did I get here?”
Same as it ever was
I was reading an Apple Maps “best restaurants” guide and it had a button to get Uber Eats from a restaurant listed as 7,900 miles away.
And? Was it worth it? What did you order?
Lillipad Cafe in Sydney, AU. I was going to order a kangaroo burger with deep-fried saltbush, but turns out they’re closed :(
Damnit. I hope you get another chance soon
I’m not sure what it is about car map searches but the suggested locations are always crap. My wife uses CarPlay and I’ll use that or android auto in my car. (So Apple Maps then google maps)
If you type like grocery into either of the maps from the dash then they’ll lose their goddamn minds and recommend some backwoods gas station instead of the local Kroger.
On our phones it’s totally fine but jfc the dash results
Is that Magic Earth?
Yes
Google Assistant is definitely getting worse and worse all the time. When the Google Homes first released they were actually pretty useful and handy. I was willing to pick a few up and they served a good purpose. They ran CIRCLES around Alexa and all those.
Now many years later, the devices don’t hear questions correctly, have to ask them four different times, they can’t even pick up my wife’s prompt words anymore, don’t even give reasonable answers when they do get the question right… It’s made hundreds of dollars worth of devices infuriating and useless.
I bought a product that worked. It no longer works because it’s been “updated”.
I’m so glad I’m not alone in this opinion. It’s absurd.
No, a lot of people recognize it has gotten worse, but the post is a device that doesn’t run off google maps but rather another guidance program so it will end up off topic everywhere
The worst part is that they’re still way better than Alexa. I hate the Google Home app; I can’t use the Alexa app.
Yeah, that’s still true as well. But it feels like one step ahead. Before it was in a totally different field. It’s gotten that much worse.
I mean…. It’s Google. What do you expect?
Just do what it says. Drive to Malaysia. But chances are you’ll pass a few burger kings on the way.
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That’s Magic Earth Navigation & Maps and the results are that app’s fault.
You can tell from both the app icon and it’s the exact same Burger King logo it uses (Google Maps uses a different one).
Yup lmao on my phone I got Malaysia as the first result while the others were nearby.
I’ve had this happen to me on Google maps on iOS before
OP blames Google for the crap the user installs. Lemmy attitude is always a good shield for large companies because it makes any complaint seem absurd by association.
It’s sad that I was hoping for Lemmy to be a place to have a better vetting of comments by votes but its frankly worse than Reddit.
Its hive mind is sadly becoming less diverse and just up votes “LOL THIS THING BAD” with no sourcing or anything.
I’ve found myself sadly going back to Reddit more because the comments are just of higher quality and diversity of opinions.
Completely agreed; your remarks resonate with me. I have found that the “hive-mind mentality” is prevalent on Lemmy, in particular in this community and to the extent that discourse is actively shut down with inane comments that just mope and complain on top with in-depth or factual corrections downvoted.
I personally find this exceedingly frustrating. On Reddit, most context and constructive debate was found in top comments. However, here on Lemmy, it’s more at a high school TikTok level, with top comments typically all very similar; mostly “some company is evil incarnate” or “I proudly pirate copyrighted material and here are the ways I’ve justified this for myself.”
None of this contributes to an informative comment section and it grinds my gears. I just wish this community would be better.
Yeah it’s a very very one-sided community, especially in regards to companies and governments and so on. And it’s not like there’s not a lot to complain about, but people here freely apply the same broad strokes they complain about on reddit et al. And that in turn shields problematic stuff from criticism because all criticism is so absurd and overdone.
There’s just little nuance in online discussions in general, and less so here. Partially of course becuase of how small Lemmy is.
Same for me literally today. I know what was closest, but didn’t want to deal with the “recalculating route”, so I decided to ask Google to pick the nearest McDonald’s as an extra stop:
- 19 minutes detour
- 4 minutes detour
- 25 minutes detour
- 2 minutes detour
At this point, I’m convinced Google only cares about presenting what’s most profitable to them regardless of any sort of convenience to the consumer.
It’s too far gone for it to be even usable.
SORT BY BOTTOM_LINEvsSORT BY BESTI’m pretty sure they don’t profit from sending you to another McDonald’s.
how is this profitable for them
Different locations can have different CPC (cost-per-click) bid configured. Even if you have multiple locations of a business, it’s still managed per site. Different areas also have different CPC rates depending on who is around that location (not including your own businesses). For example, a metropolitan CPC rate is higher than a rural one because so many others compete with you.
That 25 minute one is near a bunch of other stores and I’d bet has a higher CPC rate. The 2 minute one is more isolated.
I checked and that all have about the same rating (3.5), so it shouldn’t have been ranked by that. In the end, Google isn’t picking what’s best for the consumer, and enough to encourage me to go 20 minutes extra out of my way. Them being all the same franchise helps clarify it isn’t an issue of finding a better search term match since they’re all identically labeled the same.
This might be a stretch but McD can be franchised. If one franchisee pays top dollar for ad placement and other nearby franchises don’t, it would be profitable for them to send you to that franchisee even if it’s further.
…that being said I’m probably reading too much into it. Probably just your usual Google jank.
maybe the others on the way are closed
What we really need is c/SoftwareGore
Yeah it exists !softwaregore
Edit: I don’t know how to do the magic linking thing but https://lemmy.world/c/softwaregore
You got so close!
