I must have changed that back from miles once a fortnight since Google Maps launched 20 years ago. That's 500 times. Totally ridiculous for a company who core goal is profiling their users...
Seven interviews later and 1 PR later: Fails in A/B due to declining user engagement
I assume he’s also the one that taught it to spitefully let you drive off the side of the screen if you ever zoom out manually so that you can see more road on the phone than you can in real life. (With a “recenter” button that will zoom you all the way back in).
Satnavs had this all figured out in 2005.
Earlier this week Google prompted me with "your route may be affected by tsunami warning". Indeed, so I chose the longer, inland route rather than the coast roads.
15 minutes later I realise it's rerouted me "due to traffic conditions" -- obviously the coast road isn't as busy!
(This has happened many times before, but this was the first time I had a safety reason not to take the faster route.)
Edit: and while you’re there, move the ‘speed camera ahead, is it still there?’ Dialog. IT COVERS THE DAMN SPEED LIMIT ICON.
But I don't share your intuition that safety is also relative in that way. If you're driving dangerously (too fast, or while drunk), you're driving dangerously, even if everyone else is driving dangerously too. If you're in a country where nobody wears a seatbelt, it's still prudent to wear a seatbelt, just as much as in a country where that is the norm. I don't think Google Maps should encourage people to drive as dangerously as everyone else. Quite the opposite!
It's fine to point out that many people are terrible drivers and that a given crash that happens is more dangerous at a higher speed and if everybody were to drive under 60 at all times we'd all be safer, but clearly that will never happen unless we install a totalitarian government, put governors on all cars and give prison time for disabling them, with enforcers stationed everywhere to monitor. But no democracy would vote for that, so I don't think it's worth spending much mental energy on such hypotheticals.
> encourage
I think just the opposite: My feature would encourage people like me, who drive a "fast car" and can occasionally accidentally go too fast if a road is especially uncongested, to slow down to the speed that is customary or that others are driving, by reminding me that I could get a ticket and that driving faster than everyone else is dangerous.
Edit: after typing this realized this isn't ip, its provider. That maybe does make sense to cue off of.
Oh, "local" as defined by your IP too, so enjoy your VPNs.
The only solution is using the website instead, it has a currency dropdown.
Every year I fill up the feedback form on Google map to complain about this bug. Some years, I even did it twice. For good measure.
This bug is shameful at this point.
Exceptional, this is what I'm using from now on. Just hope the iOS 15 support is maintained, that's a killer app to keep perfectly good devices productive even after they're restricted from everything else :)
> 3D top-down view is the most comprehensible-looking map I've seen in a long time
The 3D top-down view with building heights is possible thanks to OSM providing this data, thanks to people improving the map with apps like Street Complete and Every Door. Make sure to check them out :-)
There's with this 3D view though: it sometimes hides streets. I usually end up disabling it at some point.
In Gmaps, Tap your profile picture, then select "Settings" and "Distance units". Choose between "Automatic", "Kilometers", or "Miles".
Pick the units you want.
It "seems" persistent for me.
Also it is really, really hard to search for "Nearby" places. Have to do it through "Directions". Really bad UX.
Unless you want to launch some AI feature (used to be chat app for ten years and then Google got bamboozled by ChatGPT…) you’ll not find allies and your career will not progress.
Your comment does not constitute a bug report, however. At a minimum:
- Are you logged in or out?
- What browser?
- What country is your profile set to?
- What country are you sending requests from?
Similar with "privacy popups" everywhere. Similar with every bank with "remember this device" feature. I add exactly the same device on every login, until it fills entirely the limit of allowed devices.
Anyway, how many metric hours are in a fortnight?
Yeah it makes sense I haven't encountered that since I don't have CarPlay