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Google maps is drunk. I'm at the blue dot & wanted to see how long it would take to walk to the red flag and this is the route it suggested.
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A few fun things Google Maps has done recently:
Going to a friend's new house in a rural area with long, long driveways. Google maps told us to go up their neighbor's driveway, park at their neighbor's house, and walk 1500 feet across a canyon.
Getting to a train station in Philadelphia, you know the kind of place that's had a steady address for probably at least a century: Sent me to a MicroCenter (I think it was) about a mile away. Finally figured out it was because there was a hotel behind it, and a lot of the reviews mentioned convenient access to the train station.
Google audio directions are also garbage if you're relying on audio (like riding a motorcycle). Often doesn't repeat the street name when you have to turn, which is fun when there are two or three streets in close succession. Also seems to pick a random distance from your turn to tell you to turn. Sometimes it's several hundred feet before, sometimes it's only just as you're passing the turn.