• tim-clark@kbin.social
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    7 months ago

    Google maps won’t even give me the closest chain store when I search. Directions to the target 13miles away and not the one 1 mile away. That would need to be fixed in order to provide the closest charger for my ev. It’s google so nothing will get fixed

    • onion@feddit.deEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Obligatory have you tried OpenStreetMap?

      Btw car chargers are being added to OSM as well

  • reddig33@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I don’t understand why if need AI to find a charger on a map. It’s not like the charger has legs where it gets up and moves to a new location every other week.

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
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      7 months ago

      The value is that it shows people who aren’t using EVs yet what’s available

  • Kid_Thunder@kbin.social
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    7 months ago

    How about adding speed limit without a destination, showing house/building numbers around you, traffic overlay without a destination, allow voice response to if reported hazards/speed traps/whatever is still there, better lane assistance, turn or which side the destination is on preview on the turn before so you know which lane to be in? Maybe a Recents list that doesn’t seem like it’s just a shuffle of a few random locations you’ve been to maybe once in the last 6 months?

    Maybe some of that has been added somewhat recently?

        • thefactremains@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          7 months ago

          Alerts only includes upcoming turns/exits. I don’t want audio notifications of turns or exits. Only speed traps and hazards.

          • spongebue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            7 months ago

            There’s that midway sound setting that only makes noise if you screw up, but not every little turn. That also alerts for those things in my experience. It also welcomes me when I cross a state line which I think is sweet 😊

    • SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      How about if you have a destination, find me a rest area/restaurant/whatever that is on the route. Not just around somewhere.

      • astropenguin5@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        7 months ago

        You can pretty well? The search along route feature works pretty well, sure there are a few things a little out of the way but not much

    • londos@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Would also love to have just an ETA without directions. I usually don’t need them commuting or going about town, but I keep them up anyway to keep track of time. Would love just an ETA widget.

      • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        7 months ago

        They’d have to know where you’re going, and an eta only works if you follow the path it thinks you’re going to be taking. The best you can probably do is directions, but mute the alerts.

      • Kid_Thunder@kbin.social
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        7 months ago

        Maybe they’ll replace it with a few of the features of Waze but without ads, adds stuff that have been asked for by people for years and the Google Maps look, call it Google Ways and act like it’s going to be continued to be developed as Google Maps 2.0. Then Google Maps goes away but Google Ways never gets updated with anymore features.

        All the competitors on the market lose a large part of their customer base now.

        Then one day Google Maps makes a reappearance to replace Google Ways. You can now select an icon to represent your car but otherwise, it has no Waze features and has less features than the original Google Maps but they promise they’ll be porting those features over. They never do.

        That’s pretty much the kind of thing I expect from Google.

      • iamjackflack@lemm.eeEnglish
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        7 months ago

        On mobile apps? I just looked at a couple samplings of highways and there’s nothing. I started an actual route same area and it shows traffic density on the highway. I think Kid_Thunder is correct, it doesn’t show road usage if you don’t have a destination specified. Is what your saying for the web site specifically?