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The MUMPSorceress
Jan 6, 2012


^SHTPSTS

Gary’s Answer

Shaman Linavi posted:

maybe it wants you to head down to a protected intersection like a googcar instead of making a dangerous left turn

U turns are so dangerous they're the only maneuver that is illegal in most Wisconsin communities.

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anthonypants
May 6, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo
Dinosaur Gum
the two people not wearing lifejackets in this video are cops

fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
:xickos:

anthonypants posted:

the two people not wearing lifejackets in this video are cops

good.

Best Bi Geek Squid
Mar 25, 2016
seems like every time i use google maps the interface gets worse and more obtuse. it's pretty impressive

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

by VideoGames
Salad Prong

Best Bi Geek Squid posted:

seems like every time i use google maps the interface gets worse and more obtuse. it's pretty impressive

seems like you're having a series of strokes making your progressively dumber

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

fishmech posted:

seems like you're having a series of strokes making your progressively dumber

turn on your monitor

Best Bi Geek Squid
Mar 25, 2016
ain't strokin
google's just broken

HoboMan
Nov 4, 2010

remember when there was the option to go back to the old google maps?

i used to select it and in the reason for switching back i would put "this new maps is worse in every possible way" every time

Last Chance
Dec 31, 2004

i was driving in a new city and decided on a lark to use gmaps on my iphone. it told me to drive the wrong way down an exit ramp. then i saw the app was set to walking directions for some reason. ive never used it for that

cinci zoo sniper
Mar 15, 2013




no google maps change has affected anything in my semi-daily use of it

Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006

anthonypants posted:

the two people not wearing lifejackets in this video are cops

scum floats

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



cinci zoo sniper posted:

no google maps change has affected anything in my semi-daily use of it

Stockholm syndrome

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
fuchsia on pixelbook, no i don't know why they bothered either

Cocoa Crispies
Jul 20, 2001

Vehicular Manslaughter!

Pillbug
google maps buried the "avoid tolls" option 100 deep in menus last week while i was meeting coworkers and we had more cars than toll passes

cinci zoo sniper
Mar 15, 2013




Krankenstyle posted:

Stockholm syndrome

have you tried using other maps in latvia?

Sapozhnik
Jan 2, 2005

Nap Ghost

Shaggar posted:

scum floats

your latest character arc is very confusing to me, shaggar, please ask your writing team to check your opinions about police against the existing canon

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



cinci zoo sniper posted:

have you tried using other maps in latvia?

I memorize my route from paper maps like god intended.

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

for basically being a rally co driver i really hate navigation directions

Cybernetic Vermin
Apr 18, 2005

google search and google maps are the two good google products (i'd toss in google scholar as rather indispensable, but that's pretty niche) , so many other more clearly terrible ones to choose from if one wants to complain~

cinci zoo sniper
Mar 15, 2013




Cybernetic Vermin posted:

google search and google maps are the two good google products (i'd toss in google scholar as rather indispensable, but that's pretty niche) , so many other more clearly terrible ones to choose from if one wants to complain~

cinci zoo sniper
Mar 15, 2013




google docs are tolerable and google reader was nice too

Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006

Sapozhnik posted:

your latest character arc is very confusing to me, shaggar, please ask your writing team to check your opinions about police against the existing canon

ive never supported cops or other government union employees so idk where you're getting that from

Elder Postsman
Aug 30, 2000


i used hot bot to search for "teens"

I will never forgive google for killing wave.

Endless Mike
Aug 13, 2003



infernal machines posted:

fuchsia on pixelbook, no i don't know why they bothered either

can't be worse than "linux that can only run a web browser"

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

by VideoGames
Salad Prong

Cybernetic Vermin posted:

google search and google maps are the two good google products (i'd toss in google scholar as rather indispensable, but that's pretty niche) , so many other more clearly terrible ones to choose from if one wants to complain~

sorry dude, the insane people need to shriek about how the color code of the road changed by 0.01% and now its totally unusable!!!

Just-In-Timeberlake
Aug 18, 2003
i used waze on a lark on a trip a few weeks ago and it worked well enough and being alerted to cops is nice.

but the voice nav is so loving stilted, like it's babbies first gps.

and i'm like "wait a second, google owns this poo poo, why haven't they rolled it into maps yet?"

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

by VideoGames
Salad Prong

Just-In-Timeberlake posted:

i used waze on a lark on a trip a few weeks ago and it worked well enough and being alerted to cops is nice.

but the voice nav is so loving stilted, like it's babbies first gps.

and i'm like "wait a second, google owns this poo poo, why haven't they rolled it into maps yet?"

the primary features of Waze have been rolled into Maps for several years at this point. things like the cop warnings, gamified points system for driving and editing, and the different ui are being kept out for various reasons. also because a lot of waze users really don't want to switch over to another ui and also because on the other hand waze really isn't suitable for being expanded to handle non-driving uses

waze traffic info, route edits, etc all gets fed into the goog maps stuff tho

Just-In-Timeberlake
Aug 18, 2003
i just want cop warnings

because



























gently caress
the
police

Hugh G. Rectum
Mar 1, 2011

waze used to have james may as a voice option and they took it out. gently caress u google give me my old british celebrity voice back.

Sapozhnik
Jan 2, 2005

Nap Ghost
james may is very yospos

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



he named his cat after a porn thing I made 15 years ago

anthonypants
May 6, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo
Dinosaur Gum
back when i owned an android phone i would say "ok google navigate home" or i would put "home" into the search bar and google maps would decide that i meant the city of home, washington maybe 30% of the time and refuse to resolve to the address i'd already configured as home. it wouldn't wipe out my current home address and it would get fixed a few days later but it's still incredibly bizarre that google would let that happen so often

FamDav
Mar 29, 2008

anthonypants posted:

back when i owned an android phone i would say "ok google navigate home" or i would put "home" into the search bar and google maps would decide that i meant the city of home, washington maybe 30% of the time and refuse to resolve to the address i'd already configured as home. it wouldn't wipe out my current home address and it would get fixed a few days later but it's still incredibly bizarre that google would let that happen so often

my only experience with google loving up is the one time i wanted to give them money for g-suite they hosed up halfway through the signup process, leaving me with a user i could not delete from my account. waited 3 days to see if any automated system would fix it, then closed my account because i'm not twitter-pretty enough to get this fixed by google support.

Sniep
Mar 28, 2004

All I needed was that fatty blunt...



King of Breakfast

Krankenstyle posted:

he named his cat after a porn thing I made 15 years ago

goatse?

Notorious b.s.d.
Jan 25, 2003

by Reene

Cocoa Crispies posted:

google maps buried the "avoid tolls" option 100 deep in menus last week while i was meeting coworkers and we had more cars than toll passes

only poors care about tolls

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

by VideoGames
Salad Prong
map apps should have a "minimize tolls" option in the same way that Waze has an option selection for dirt roads which has "allow", "avoid long", and "don't allow".

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

there's a python thing on github you can download that will take all the roads in a specified area and calculate how twisty they are (average radius of curvature and number of inflections per linear mile) and plot it on a map so that you can pick the twistiest roads to ride on your motorcycle or drive in your lotus.

wish google would add that one. maybe i'll just port it into a lovely android app myself

anthonypants
May 6, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo
Dinosaur Gum

Sagebrush posted:

there's a python thing on github you can download that will take all the roads in a specified area and calculate how twisty they are (average radius of curvature and number of inflections per linear mile) and plot it on a map so that you can pick the twistiest roads to ride on your motorcycle or drive in your lotus.

wish google would add that one. maybe i'll just port it into a lovely android app myself
there's bound to be a way to add that to google maps via some api

Cocoa Crispies
Jul 20, 2001

Vehicular Manslaughter!

Pillbug

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

only poors care about tolls

or people who live in 2018 and don't carry around a massive canvas sack full of coins for all the tolls in the orlando area

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Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006
do they not do ez pass?

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