re: Google Maps is annoying AF

Yep not even close

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The most important functionality is the crowd sourcing of real-time data that Maps is able to integrate. This improves the routing which is the primary reason for the technology.

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its delayed resulting in SIGNIFICANT problems. Maps gets periodic updates from waze but its not real-time like waze, there's a delay. when a major wreck happens in front of you, those 2-3 minutes are critical; waze tells you instantly and you can get off the road before you're in gridlock.

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What Waze functionality is your favorite? Police notification is the main one not in Maps that I am familiar with.

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- objects on the road - saved me a few times as i was able to slow down and cars in front of me were veering left/right at the last second because they were oblivious to a ladder in the road until they were right on top of it.

- police (nuff said)

- ability to read comments on accidents, police, etc to gain a better perspective.

for instance, recently traffic was backed up for MILES near my house. We were having a birthday party and the parents couldn't get back to our house because they were stick in gridlock. I opened waze and scrolled to the epicenter and people sitting there stuck were commenting the police had shut the road down because of a jumper on the natchez trace bridge. they were then able to make the decision to turn-around and take a different route rather than just sitting there.

you wont get that from google maps.

So you thinking Google is batch processing updates from Waze? That seems quite inefficient when the value of Maps is real-time mapping. I don't think there is a way to prove the true integration or lack there of.

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I also get neighborhood frustrations, as we get people from the adjacent county cutting through my hood every day, backing up traffic and whatnot. I get it, they're looking to shorten their commute, but it's definitely annoying.

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Houston began to put concrete pilings on neighborhood streets (creating de-facto dead ends) limiting the number of entrances and exits a neighbor has. This means less thru traffic. It also means less options for people who live there. I think that is a good solution. You have to take the good with the bad.

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why everyone hasn't adopted Waze already, I will never understand

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I used it when it was flooded and it had areas where it says it was flooded, but comments would say it wasn't. So basically you have people looking at their phone to avoid traffic. Gee, that's safe.

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Also waze is the best thing out there.

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I find the Waze map terrible. Looks like a cartoon map and it's not very intuitive to use.

I use Google maps and click on the "traffic" feature. It uses information from Waze and displays it on a real map.

google maps is a POS

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turns our orientation around

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Tap the map one time, and you can chose North-up or direction-north. I'll grant you the default "3D" tilted map screen is irritating to me, but you can turn that off in settings.

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you cant zoom out

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Tap the map one time, and a zoom control comes up on the left.

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see whats ahead in terms of accidents, etc.

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Or, tap on the "next turn" panel at the top, and when the list of turns drops down, note the "reports ahead" tab to the right.

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You are right. Concepts like this start out clean and functional.

Then developers have to justify their existence by adding features (Look what I did!), which eventually ruins the product through bloat.

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Basically what's happening with Google maps. It keeps bringing up features that are completely unnecessary. It's especially annoying if you need to do it while on the road. Then it also seems to often to select odd routes that screw up the time and don't change until you're right up on a turn.