Re:Google Maps Hacks
by gbea42d4 on Sunday February 02, 2020 @01:15PM
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It's also important for these apps to consider if it's really legally allowed for the current driver of the current vehicle to drive on that street.
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Re:Google Maps Hacks
by celticninja on Sunday February 02, 2020 @01:19PM
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How can an app tell what vehicle it is in and what qualifications the driver has?
Waze has settings for this.
Re:Google Maps Hacks
by celticninja on Sunday February 02, 2020 @03:27PM
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Kind of my point, it relies on the user setting something.
Re:Google Maps Hacks
by benhurmarcel on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @06:47AM
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Not really a problem though. It's trivial to ask.
Might be true in a haply belief but I give you one first big critique:
It's NOT easy to time the release of such a feature.
In fact, since this is not easy, I see a big opportunity for a competitor to Waze.
do they have "how tall is your rental truck?"
I had a friend I helped move and we had to deal with google continually routing us towards low bridges.
You can buy satnavs with that feature: https://www.tomtom.com/en_gb/sat-nav/truck-sat-nav/ and of course, many truck rental companies will also rent you such a sat nav.
Does it work 100% of the time? Is it mathematically disproven, that it won't fail on any occasion?
Is it mathematically proven, that every bridge is always appearing in the dataset after it is possible to drive underneath it? Or over it?
No, having a sat nav doesn't obviate the need to be attentive to road signs and the size of your vehicle.
No map data supplier warrants that their data is free from errors, and even if they did the data could be out-of-date within hours as roads are being built all the time.
There is no proof - mathematical or otherwise - a sat nav won't switch off if you fail to plug it in. Neither is there any proof a bridge won't be closed due to roadworks, an accident, or other reasons.
How about drones?
In OsmAnd you can set vehicle parameters: height, weight, and width limits.
Re:Google Maps Hacks
by RugnirViking on Sunday February 02, 2020 @03:21PM
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you could probably just tell it your vehicle and/or qualifications if it was important enough,
True, maybe by scanning the number sign plate.
Re:Google Maps Hacks
by benhurmarcel on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @06:46AM
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This is especially important in Europe where we are having more and more city centers reserved for inhabitants, or forbidden to polluting vehicles.
Is it? I think we can decide for ourselves.
Re:Google Maps Hacks
by InitialLastName on Sunday February 02, 2020 @06:19PM
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I don't know; I rented a truck in an NYC outer borough for a move and had the hardest time navigating through the city because I had no easily accessible way to figure out where trucks were allowed.