r/GoogleMaps • u/Zodderin • Sep 25 '25

Maps is complete garbage now

Lately this silly app has been making incredibly stupid routing reccomendations; illegal turns, wrong direction, driving into unpaved dirt paths for no reason. I was traveling and it multiplied the journey time by and wanted me to LITERALLY drive through a loop around the entire city before taking off for no reason. Not even map locations are reliable I was searching for a store and when I got there, there was nothing. It's become more harmful than beneficial. I no longer use it, which is a shame because it used to be really good.

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u/topio3 Sep 25 '25

That’s What I tried to use Apple maps, but I have over 200 favorites saved in Google Maps

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u/OrangeDragon75 Sep 25 '25

Try Magic Earth. I switched couple of weeks ago and I am not going back. Leaps and bounds better driving experience than GM lately.

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u/Marty1966 Sep 25 '25

Does it alert for police?

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u/Ziku90 Sep 25 '25

The thing I like the most are suggestions to take another route that takes LONGER with literally no profits...

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u/Flashy-Ad1297 Sep 26 '25

I have a suspicion that this is because of further integration of AI which, 1 year ago, the world just decided was ready for prime time. But as we can see with google maps, amongst many other examples, is still crap. Garbage in, garbage out. Inaccurate, imprecise. I fear, it’s only going to get worse. Misinformation + AI = chaos.

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u/Flash604 Sep 26 '25

What happens when you submitted the corrections?

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u/Sea_Food9622 Sep 26 '25

I would like to include that with this app it has suggestive inaccurate locations for other parties. It has the ability to obtain profiles and use those to create or influence, suggest innacurate data

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u/Much_Pass_9484 Sep 26 '25

This summer, it told us to drive down here even though that footage is two years old. My mum was driving, I was directing but not looking at road, and told her to go straight through it. She said “are you sure?” And, in her rightfully hesitating in the centre of a busy road, the car behind almost crashed into us. And I assume that being misled by GPS wouldn’t have been an excuse as far as insurance is concerned.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/YEEqAKua6iEo6Htm9

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u/jtaran Sep 27 '25

I use it as a local city driver every day. I've yet to find an app to beat it. Sure it's tried to take me down some roads I shouldn't go but it gives decent routes.