Too bad Google maps is a pile of garbage now. Directions that include advertisements. Nonsensical naming of bodies of water.
Google eats a bag of dicks more and more every day.
I heard a story, that I often recounted, that Google was famously made in the one day a week (10%) time engineers got for personal projects and development.
Seems I was misinformed and been spreading a falsehood all these years. Oh well. Now I know.
> Google Maps changed the way we get around. It all began in a bedroom in Sydney
I guess "The Guardian" is in financial difficulties. They don't have money to pay students to find out about iGo, TomTom and others. And the funniest part: they want money for this "article". /s
And since then, much like search, Google has apparently been on a mission to ruin Maps.
There are many stories of Google Maps getting people stranded in remote locations. Anecdotally, I find its route suggestions become less sensible every year.
Last month I took a drive through regional Australia from Swan Hill to Albury.
The quickest, safest, most fuel efficient and easiest route is to follow B400 Murray Valley Highway all the way, and this is what Apple Maps suggested.
Google Maps, on the other hand absolutely refused to do this. It insisted on routing me down dirt tracks in the middle of nowhere, even when I added every major town on the route as an intermediate stop. This is the sort of thing that gets people stranded and killed.
>The Guardian lol
MapQuest actually changed the way we get around. It all began in 1967 in Chicago.