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OK, let me get this correct. The idea is to make the map not show places you have not been, the map that one uses to tell you how to get to places you have not yet been?
Am I missing something here, do people use google maps to go to place they have been already? Why?
traffic conditions
That has also kinda confused me, but might be my area. Does the traffic conditions change your route? does it stop you from going?
There are like 3 different routes that make sense for me to get home from work, depending on where there's traffic
Ah, here the map data is never that quick. Its tells me there is traffic in an area normally like 2 hours after it is relevant.
Wow that’s crazy. In the UK Apple Maps and probably others will offer to re-route me mid trip if it finds a faster route. Plus is insanely accurate if I leave home at 06:45 for a 39 mile trip it will say arrive 07:56 and sure enough I’m usually within a few mins.
There are 2 missing streets (as in they exist and I drive on them often) within a 1/2 block of my house and about half the speed limits in my area are just wrong (causing poor routing in weird ways). I have also had it off by 20 or more min on a few trips (also likely due to the bad speed limits). Other issues like u-turning to your destination (mapquest days flashbacks) due to I think just not having any info on where entrances to parking lots are.
I literally ignore it when it tries to re route me.
Like the other guy said. I also have 3 viable routes to work so I change depending on traffic and some of those routes have their own variations.
I live close to a ring motorway so I can get on to work and drive east or west and there is a two mile difference over 40 miles. Or I can take the road route and save a lot of stop start on the motorway and takes a little longer but is less miles.
I guess it is dependent on how much of a shit google gives for your area. Around here, I think the last time they took any data was 10 ish years ago.
Edit: Just checked my house, May 2013 was the last update on my street.
Traffic estimates don't depend on when they last visited your street. They actually harvest that data from Android and other Google maps (and Waze) users speeds on the road in near real-time. So if you have people on your road chances are Google can tell how fast roughly half of them are going and algorithmically determine if that's on foot, bike, car, etc to calculate traffic estimates.
Yes, it is real time tracking. But it still is wrong in my area.
Good thing its not my mess to fix.
some people are dogshit with directions, or it's a place they went once.
People are that bad with 3d space? Really?
Should we be concerned?
I think maps can be used for other stuff than just navigating. You're quite right that this would be useless for actually navigating (which is probably the main purpose of using a map or other navigation software), but it could be a fun concept for looking back on things.
I don't use Google stuff as much nowadays, so they might have gotten rid of it (knowing Google, I wouldn't be surprised), but I remember that one of the sections within the Google maps app was a "Timeline" section. I used that section a few times to check whether I actually went to a particular appointment that was scheduled a month or so prior, or to check which restaurant I ate at when I was last in [city]. I also found it fun to look at the overview of things, like being able to see the pins corresponding to the silly road trip I took with friends a few years ago. It's nice to look back every now and then.
I have some anxiety just thinking about going though my own recorded position from years ago. Like I know they are collecting it, but that is too much.