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Google Maps keeps getting worse

2 points by quintussss ↗ HN
I live in Vienna, Austria. Whenever I try to search for a route by train on Google maps it keeps recommending bike routes. If I had a bike available, I would have searched for it, so why are you suggesting me to ride my bike if I want to go by train?

Sorry for the rant but I just feel like Google is going down hill

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anyfoo
Have you tried Apple Maps? I feel it's been getting better a lot (though I don't know how well it fares in Vienna).
rektide
I just tried to get 7 random routes across Vienna by bicycle and not a single one suggested the train.

I cannot reproduce your complaint at all. Do you have an example you can share? This seems false.

nicbou
Yep. It's bad.

It's getting worse and worse at finding places. The fuzzy AI-based search suffers from the same problems as the Google Search counterpart. It tries to get what you mean, while you know what you mean.

It also tends to return a maximum number of results, meaning that it omits random places. I don't want to see some restaurants scattered in the neighborhood, but all restaurants near me.

The UI is catastrophic. How many times do I have to click "X" or "back" to get to the search bar? Why does it keep wildly panning the map away from what I'm looking at? Why can't I search for something without losing the route? Why can't it keep the screen awake without a destination? Why won't it accept that I don't want the shorter route?

OsmAnd is much better in many ways. I love how I can ride my motorbike while displaying photo radars, petrol station and cafés at once. I can also create a multipoint route as I go without manually entering random addresses.