Over the course of 2024, Google Maps for Android has been working on a redesign that drops most fullscreen UIs in favor of sheets...

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17574522

Over the course of 2024, Google Maps for Android has been working on a redesign that drops most fullscreen UIs in favor of sheets…

  • Saik0English
    12•4 months ago

    Fuck Google Maps. I’ve been requesting to fix my road for 6 months now (new house I just purchased this year). They refuse. So now any website that uses google apis to validate addresses fucks me over. My road turns from “<road> Drive” to “<road> Court” at a junction with another road. Google maps just calls the whole road “Drive”.

    The road signs even show up in street view. And the other roads around me that have the same structure are all correct.

    • @doodledupEnglish
      6•4 months ago

      Use OSM (Organic Maps app). I’m almost certain someone in the OSM community has mapped your road. If not, let me know, I’ll map it for you.

      • Saik0English
        12•4 months ago

        It’s mapped properly in every other database outside of google (including Waze which is now owned by Google). But I can’t make websites not use Google’s database for address validation. I don’t use google maps personally.

      • SemperverusEnglish
        3•4 months ago

        For daily use, if you want something that uses the same data as OSM but has a Google Maps like experience, use Organic Maps instead. Its really good and very modern. Its also completely offline so it works without an internet connection. Slight warning though, it uses a cache of open streetmaps and not realtime data - this gets updated once a month.

        • PorkSodaEnglish
          2•4 months ago

          I just downloaded it and tried it. Unfortunately, since I live in the vast suburban sprawl of a major US city, its ETA is way off because I doesn’t take traffic info account. Compared to Google Maps, its ETA was off by a significant margin (12 minutes OM vs 20 minutes Google Maps and 38 vs 54).

          Glad to see this is an active project though.

          • SemperverusEnglish
            2•4 months ago

            Yes, the ETAs inherently cant be as accurate as Google because it is an offline map. Google Maps uses your location in addition to traffic data it collects to adjust time.

            This is less of Organic Maps’ fault and more of a data science problem.

            Maybe with a better algo, it could calculate the time better, but without the realtime data itll be tough.

            Additionally, I don’t think the OpenStreetMaps database collects speed limit data. This is one area that could actively be improved. Edit: I am wrong

    • Drusas
      2•4 months ago

      I can’t get Google Maps to recognize that my driveway is connected to the street I live on, not the street behind my house.