Re:A man who spent $100K to remove a lie from Google
by rconti on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @03:50PM
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Try using it on a bike's handlebars. But now that I know I can turn the 'feature' off-- awesome! I will say, bike routing is amazing on Google Maps. It knows about every path and shortcut and road that is blocked to cars but open to bikes.
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Re:A man who spent $100K to remove a lie from Google
by eythian on Thursday April 05, 2018 @09:49AM
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It may be location dependent. For example, it doesn't know that I can bike across the street by my place, because there's a tram line down the middle. So it insists I go all the way to the end to turn around. It'll often also tell me to go a way that involves a left turn across effectively two lots of traffic, which is a nuisance when it's busy. Usually I use its routing as advisory, and figure out my own way based on it.