> garmins are pretty outdated compared to google maps.
> i still use one but i have no idea why. when i'm really traveling nothing bea
> google maps.
I have tried using google maps on a few occassions. My favorite stories
about those attempts involve google maps attempting to tell me I was about
500 feet out into Lake Michigan when I was in fact on land and not even in
direct sight of the lakeshore. It did have me in the right area of
Michigan, but had no clue where I was exactly. Since I could not satisfy
its direction to move 500 ft East to get out of the Lake, it was pretty
useless. This was NOT in an extremly rural area... I was actually in a
small town just off a major highway. It has done that to me multiple times
with Lake Michigan and the other lakes, in rural areas and in town, and on
more than one phone and different carriers.
My other favorite story is how I was using it, with some success, while
trying to navigate Chicago (when my planned route was closed) and, later,
Milwaukee (when my planned route was also closed). For whatever the Hell
reason, either google maps or the phone kept turning the volume down at random
times, and usually when I really needed its assistance.
My third favorite story is the time it had a road marked as a thru street,
and was very much directing me to stay on it, even though it was not a thru
street and quite obviously had not been in years. That was within the
limits of a major city. Similarly, it once took me on a longer than
necessary trip back to my hotel through a bad part of Michigan City for no
apparent reason. That was in 2019.
I remember fussing in one of the echos about that last one only to be told
that Google Maps had turned off their "don't route through bad areas" code
because people complained it was not "politically correct" to do so.
So my experience using Google Maps on my cell phone is very different than
yours. :) My successful use cases for Google Maps involves using them as
a map, and maybe even writing my own directions to certain places, on the
laptop before taking off for the day. I use it a lot for that and that
usually works well (although I still have to be careful of the roads that
no longer exist issue).
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