2024: year of the openstreetmaps
this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2024
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For some reason, this got me imagining an ad causing an unnecessary detour the wrong way on a one way road and cause a head-on collision. which is going to get them hit with a class action lawsuit that could send their line graph all the way down into the ground.
Popups while driving? With buttons that have to be pressed for it to go away? What could possible go wrong diverting the attention of a driver this way?!
The article was updated, this was fake news. There are no popups while driving.
It was all based on someones Tweet, which either made it up or was confused.
Ah, the eagerness to publish some “news” based on a Tweet or a Reddit post from a random person with no confirmation at all.
It’s too bad androidauthority doesn’t think the “reject all” cookies rule applies to them.
Yeah that's just unsafe. You're gonna make me have to reroute my GPS while I'm driving? No thanks.
Crazy watching Google kill themselves in real time.
I've had something like this happening to me a long time ago. While going from a city in Uruguay to a city in Argentina, Google Maps "suggested" a route that was 2 hours longer but took me through the ferry (a paid business). Even though I chose "keep my route" several times, from time to time, the suggestion popped up with a "time limit" to confirm. If I failed to notice it, the suggested route would be selected.
Time to switch to open street maps
And i thought it was bad when the gps says to make a right at the starbucks instead of using the street name.
But why line go down?!
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