Screw Google Maps, up the Mapquest!

I need to visit a business in person and planned to drive there yesterday. It's at least a 45 min drive I wanted to see how bad traffic and construction was so I could plan my route. I could pull up the business, but it refused to display the Directions button. I ended up not going and decided to visit next week.

Today, I looked up the business again on my laptop - no direction button. I googled the place and found a web page that indicated this site office is closed and they will be moving to another place (but no ETA yet.)

The page said to visit the place that is another 35+ mi beyond that place. I am glad I didn't try yesterday as it would have been a waste of time and I would not have driven another 35+ miles beyond.

I checked other sites to see if they mentioned the office being closed - some were unclear - but others gave store hours.

FYI - if google maps doesn't give you an option to get Directions - there may be a reason!

And more importantly, how do I find out?

I very rarely post reviews. I posted one 4 days ago and my score impacted their rating the review itself is missing. I don't understand.

How can I fix this?

I looked at the cosmodrome in Kazakhstan today, and there are strange 3d 'mountains' there. Are these artifacts? I looked at photos of the site and see no tall mountains that could account for this

thanks

In 2016 I was driving home from high school and I saw the google maps car. For years I’ve been able to see the full front of my car coming up the road perpendicular to the google maps car; sometimes I show people or I just “drive” around that neighborhood virtually for nostalgia. Now when I go to that spot I can’t see my car at all, not on phone or on desktop. The only trace of it is if I move up the road I can see a tiny sliver of it from behind a house.

Would google maps have like AI removed my car or something?

I'm now forgetting what it was before, because it was so neutral - but now that it wipes up and the image breaks up each time you click a different year, I realize whatever came before was much better. I hope they change this back.

Edit: it's almost dizzying, definitely not user friendly in that way either

I started working on a new list and I noticed I could add tags. I added a couple tags which are still there and now the option is completely gone within minutes. I can't edit the tags, add new tags, tag places. How does the button just disappear? How can I add tags or edit the one I do have going already.

There's a place I go where Google tells me my destination is on the left and to turn there, but what's on the left is the employee parking lot. The general public needs to drive farther, to the other end of the property, before turning left into the public lot. I didn't use the thumbs up/down option at the end of my last trip, at which point I could have submitted a comment. How do I do it now?

When traveling on foot, it would be great for Google Maps to offer a "least-effort" option, to get the route from A to B over which the elevation changes the least. This would be amazing in places like San Francisco and Seattle.

Lake Ontario name is missing! Please fix it!

I was driving home from a shopping trip yesterday and had Google Maps navigation going due to it being rush hour and wanting the shortest route with traffic. In the middle of a 3 mile stretch with no turns, the app voice said something like, "This is what it sounds like when you use navigation." ?????

I've been using Google Maps for years. Has anyone else had a glitch like this?

We keep hearing that AI is the future and going to automate so much of our daily lives, so I decided to see how current-gen Gemini and Google Maps handle a multi-stage commute.

I was coming home from an appointment in Auckland, NZ. My trip had three legs:

1. Walk to the train station
2. Train ride to my local station
3. Drive home from the station

I selected my final destination, let Maps default to Driving mode, and turned on live location sharing so my family had an ETA.

The Glitch Everything worked fine while the rail track ran parallel to the road. But the moment the train tracks veered off into the countryside away from the road network, Maps went into complete chaos.

Even though the map UI clearly showed my marker moving along a railway line, the turn-by-turn navigation kept aggressively trying to reroute me back to the nearest road. My ETA kept wildly bouncing up and down the further we traveled down the tracks. Once I got to my destination station and jumped in my car, normal navigation resumed smoothly.

The Question Given all the talk around AI integration, will future generations of Gemini / Maps finally be able to dynamic-switch modes based on live telemetry?

Your phone already knows your speed and location vector:

• < 5 km/h on a path? You're walking.
• 80+ km/h following a rail corridor? You're on a train.
• 300+ km/h over open water? You're on a plane.

Google Maps Timeline already classifies this data retroactively after your trip using accelerometer and cell data. Why hasn't active turn-by-turn navigation caught up to switch modes mid-route automatically?

Has anyone else noticed this wall between passive tracking and active routing, or found a good workaround for multi-modal travel?

TL;DR: Took a train with Google Maps set to driving mode. Even though Maps saw me on rail tracks, it constantly tried to recalculate routes back to the nearest road, making ETAs useless. Why isn't live transport mode detection built into active navigation yet?

Hello,

I’ve been working an a restaurant map for my city and I’ve uploaded the csv with a few columns, one of them being the link to the restaurant. When I go to this map and click on a restaurant the pop up displays the link but it is not clickable and I can’t even copy paste to search it. I’ve tried finding a way to make the URL clickable but nothing that google’s ai has spit out has worked. Has anyone had any luck with this issue?

I clicked on a map linked on reddit that showed thousands of different pins all around the country. Now when I open my regular Maps app I still see all the pins and can't figure out how to turn it off. I tried deleting it from my search history but it didn't help.

I am living in the nice city of Hamburg, which has a lot of military bases right next to living quarters. They are usually seperated with military fences, and guarded by military. Now google maps always tells the driver to go to military base. This wouldn't be an issue at all, as you can talk to the drivers. But nowadays germany has become very cultural diverse and I am not quite fond of dozen arabic languages. The communication is near impossible, and everybody seems to rely on your cards. So that often ends in me not getting a pizza.

I tried to change that, tried to write tickets and mails, but google still believes a military base is better to drive to me. Although there is a road that actually leads there. I am a bit of desperate. Is there anyone helping me to get my pizza?

Hey y'all,

I'm a frequent traveler who uses Google maps way too often. One pattern I've noticed over the years is that when I stay in newly built hotels/accommodations, the rooms are the cleanest, the staff is the most attentive, yet the price is relatively low compared to subpar alternatives. I've noticed this over and over again, I think it has to do with how competitive the hotel industry is, when a new hotel is completed they don't have a reputation yet, so they have to make a name for themselves by charging lower prices and offering the best service to rack up good reviews. That's my best guess.

The frustrating part about this is that Google maps makes it difficult to filter by 'newly opened accommodation'.

For example, I want to filter by hotels on Google maps with less than 20 reviews with a minimum rating of 4.7, but Google maps only lets you choose the minimum rating, not the maximum number of reviews.

If you search 'new hotel' on Google maps or google search, you'll often find listings with hundreds or thousands of reviews.

The best method I found is going on booking sites like Airbnb, booking.com, agoda, etc. And filtering by accommodation with a minimum star rating, but again these platforms don't let you select a maximum number of reviews, or filter by 'newly listed' properties so this is time-consuming.

The website top-rated.online in theory is the perfect solution to this because it lets you filter by number of reviews and rating, but the actual results that show up aren't quality.

Anyone got any recommendations? Thanks so much for the help. Let me know if you have any questions.

Got rid of @GoogleMaps for pandering to a convicted felon. Both @Waze and @Mapquest still call Lake Ontario by its true name

33°26'24.0"N 114°18'36.0"W

What is this place? The towns don't look real, and it isn't marked on any other map I can find. TF?

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/here-wego-maps-navigation/id955837609

It’s a Netherlands-based company using OpenMaps data. Very clean interface

I tried to add my business to google maps, but they wouldn't allow it because I do not wish to use my house address for a business address. I paid to rent a business address and google wouldn't accept that. When I look at some other companies (like HeyTony SEO services in Hamilton Ontario Canada), It does not show exactly where they are located. My business is mobile and I think they are too.

Why do they have the privilege of appearing on Google and I don't? I did contact google in the past about the issue and they said that only businesses with physical addresses can be added to google maps.