Google is improving Maps with features including where to find EV charging stations and in-depth visualization.

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This is the best summary I could come up with:


Google users can now make plans through a new Maps update that will generate events and activities by typing “things to do” into the search bar.

Activities like art exhibitions or lists providing inspiration for things to do will now populate, giving photo-first results to users, according to a Google news release Thursday.

Google Maps uses artificial intelligence to analyze billions of photos shared by the app’s community and focuses on specific activities.

Its Lens feature also incorporates AI with its “Search with Live View,” creating the option to select the icon and hold up your phone to scan the area for information about nearby landmarks.

After ChatGPT launched in November of last year, Google strove to catch up with the release of its chatbot Bard, alongside other AI endeavors across the company.

Google has not launched SGE to the general public yet, but CEO Sundar Pichai said in a Q3 earnings call earlier this week that using AI will create “new opportunities for content to be discovered.”


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how do you define fun

like some think clubs are fun but really they sound like hell on earth

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Google is improving Maps

No they’re not. I use it every single day, and it’s actively getting worse.

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I haven’t noticed it getting worse what problems are you seeing?

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  • I mentioned in another post, but pointlessly (AI?) segmenting the same straight road or highway so you think your next turn or exit is way sooner

  • Search: “Carl’s Jr”, wants me to turn around and drive for hours, rather than guiding me to the one 15 min away on my route

  • Connected to Android Auto select “Start” multiple times, nothing ever happens on phone or vehicle screen

  • GPS stops sensing at all for no reason, other apps still work

  • Doesn’t know the names of places I added to Google maps, either in Labeled, Favorites, or Starred places

  • Forgets my custom maps that I refer to every day

  • Voice: “Report hazard on road” Response: “That feature haven’t been implemented yet” Oh yeah? It works in Waze, which you bought years ago!

  • Some streets incorrect in navigation, despite being correct on the map… Obviously I’m not the only one who doesn’t know how I would even report that, seeing how they’ve been wrong for years…

I’ll let you know if I think of anything else…

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I personally had only bad experiences with Google maps while traveling abroad. Like it cannot comprehend that im not in brazil anymore and dosen’t know where i am. If I ask for restaurants or grocery recommendations close to me it just gave me global results, like why the fuck are you reccomend me restaurants in England and New York while im on Buenos Aires?

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7 points

That’s one hell of a comprehensive list!

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30 points

When at the backstage to find where people are grouping for protest.

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Most important comment right here.

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goddamnit.

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