Google Maps FAIL

[SMOKEU]

no but my limited 130km fuel tank needs to know where i can get fuel

Are you riding a scooter or other 2 stroke of some sorts?

[iYRe]

I've driven through there using google maps in my car, and I would suggest that was about the point where I lose my mobile signal and the maps disappeared..

[Devil]

Why on earth would you navigate with Google Maps? It's retarded at the best of times.

[iYRe]

Why on earth would you navigate with Google Maps? It's retarded at the best of times.

because sometimes its the only thing that works.

I'm using Sygic Aura on my android phone and its pretty good.

At least google maps, if you ask it to get you to picton from auckland tells you to get the ferry.

[Devil]

Maybe i'm just blessed with having a phone that has built in mapping and navigation that doesn't require any downloads, unless you want to update an entire countries maps.

[MSTRS:Me]

I'm driving from Wanganui to Ohakune in the morning, then want to pop over to Turangi before heading home through Taumarunui & Te Kuiti. I was looking at my route on Google and noticed they're trying to take the piss. It's almost like there's a big black hole just south of Horopito that Google wants me to avoid. What others have you found?

You needed help to know how to do that trip? Why didn't you just ask me?

[Gremlin]

Maybe i'm just blessed with having a phone that has built in mapping and navigation that doesn't require any downloads, unless you want to update an entire countries maps.

I have this thing called a GPS... maybe some don't?

It's kinda like taking a sportsbike off road, and complaining it doesn't slug through the mud well

[iYRe]

Mines more like an adventure bike, its ok on the road, and ok off the road.. but not specifically good at either. But at least I dont have to have 3 things.. I can only afford one.

[jazfender]

http://maps.google.co.nz/maps?saddr=...ra=ls&t=m&z=10

Google LOVES the Akatarawas. Anyone knows... that's a real bad idea

I took that route on google maps suggestion when in the area, figured I hadn't been there before and was the more "direct" way.

FUCK THAT.

[cmoore]

Yeah I found that google maps showed a black hole south of the Bombays.....I rode that way once and found they were right........

[Hopeful Bastard]

http://maps.google.co.nz/maps?saddr=...ra=ls&t=m&z=10

Google LOVES the Akatarawas. Anyone knows... that's a real bad idea

Thats a really funny looking Akatarawas.... LMAO! Paekak hill road. Hmmm... Something has gone amiss in Gremlins head...


http://maps.google.co.nz/maps?q=from...src=6&t=m&z=10


Question is.... Why would you travel THROUGH Waikanae, If you want to end up in the town centre?

[jrandom]

Why on earth would you navigate with Google Maps? It's retarded at the best of times.

It's not. Their geocoding and routing is the best in the world, IMHO.

The problem is the map data. New Zealand map data is fucked, at least as it stands when you get it from the companies that supply it. This is the reason why people see these issues - State Highways are represented with complete gaps in the middle, etc. Can't automatically route someone through a road that isn't connected to itself halfway through, hence all the wacky run-arounds.

NZ map data is made to be put into printed map books, basically, not to be used by automatic route-generating software.

For the first generation of the Navman iCN series we engaged in a labour of love to pick through the map data for NZ and connect up all the fucked bits so that they could be routed properly. It wasn't profitable - NZ sales were about 1% of the total market. But before we did that, the general experience of users in NZ was that the 'device was shit' - unfortunately it had nothing to do with the device, just the fact that properly-represented map data wasn't available for the country.

These issues don't arise in the USA and Europe where accurate map data is a big industry with multiple large corporations competing as suppliers.

You have one of those Garmin Android phones, I guess? Garmin will have manually worked on fixing up the NZ map data for their customers, the same as we did. They won't make much money directly from that market, either, but it'll be worth it to not have Kiwis complaining on the internet that their unit is shit.

I'd say that Google Maps is, at the moment, discovering the same problems and cursing the same map data suppliers.

[Ender EnZed]

What others have you found?

Fucking heaps.

Why on earth would you navigate with Google Maps? It's retarded at the best of times.

It's still one of the most useful and immediate ways of working out distances to plan fuel stops. Most of the time.

[whowhatwhere]

This is a reasonably recent problem though right? I don't remember having these issues a few months ago.

[blackdog]

Thats a really funny looking Akatarawas.... LMAO! Paekak hill road. Hmmm... Something has gone amiss in Gremlins head...


http://maps.google.co.nz/maps?q=from...src=6&t=m&z=10


Question is.... Why would you travel THROUGH Waikanae, If you want to end up in the town centre?

If you ask it to get you to Levin from Stokes Valley it takes you over the Aka's though. Not helpful.