RE: LeoThread 2025-03-10 00:50
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what happened to Google maps? It says I need to wait 2 hours to be able to take a bus somewhere but I found a bus on my own that will take me a 12 minute walk from there right now.
It definitely used to be much more accurate than this
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AI has been added to it
Just a really bad one 😂
yeah it would seem that way! Enshittification
Btw, brave browser+INLEO working fine now!
What I always look at, regarding those apps, is: do I really need them? lol. In most cases (95% of the time), I don't, and so also avoid delivering them personal data. Google has no "natural right" to know where I'm moving to - in many cases I hit the streets without carrying a phone.
The "second best choice", imho, is to use the OG app that Google stole their idea from: OpenStreetMap. I guess they don't have a time calculator integrated, but they're open source, hence we could create one for them 😉.
if they have buses and subways I’ll go use that! But there is no way you can get around some parts of Tokyo without some kind of map app.
Interesting! Even asking for directions to the local people?
Here's the web version of Japan on OpenStreetMap, you can have a look at it:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=Tokyo%2C+Japan#map=6/36.83/138.45
well if you asked them they’d just pull out google maps and wonder why you didn’t hahah. I guess it’s fine if you want them to share their GPS in your stead.
The only alternative I can think of that doesn’t involve Google or Apple is to research every single train line in the area 😝 it would take over an hour
I'm now wondering if that Google Maps flaw would somehow be linked to the "Chromecast" outage I've threaded about a couple of minutes ago.
Maybe similar to what happens at Meta when WhatsApp, Facebook & Instagram are all inaccessible at the same time?
makes me wonder if your bus followed the same maps to get on a wrong route!
well it’s strange cause it took me exactly the same time as the map said 70 minutes…but I actually got really lost and got off the train twice when I didn’t have to lol. 😵💫
I realize Google maps and similar services are much better in areas where it’s all high frequency trains or only driving.