I swear that with each update they’re adding more and more artificial stupidity
That’s Magic Earth Navigation & Maps and the results are that app’s fault.
You can tell from both the app icon and it’s the exact same Burger King logo it uses (Google Maps uses a different one).
OP blames Google for the crap the user installs. Lemmy attitude is always a good shield for large companies because it makes any complaint seem absurd by association.
It’s sad that I was hoping for Lemmy to be a place to have a better vetting of comments by votes but its frankly worse than Reddit.
Its hive mind is sadly becoming less diverse and just up votes “LOL THIS THING BAD” with no sourcing or anything.
I’ve found myself sadly going back to Reddit more because the comments are just of higher quality and diversity of opinions.
Yeah it’s a very very one-sided community, especially in regards to companies and governments and so on. And it’s not like there’s not a lot to complain about, but people here freely apply the same broad strokes they complain about on reddit et al. And that in turn shields problematic stuff from criticism because all criticism is so absurd and overdone.
There’s just little nuance in online discussions in general, and less so here. Partially of course becuase of how small Lemmy is.
Completely agreed; your remarks resonate with me. I have found that the “hive-mind mentality” is prevalent on Lemmy, in particular in this community and to the extent that discourse is actively shut down with inane comments that just mope and complain on top with in-depth or factual corrections downvoted.
I personally find this exceedingly frustrating. On Reddit, most context and constructive debate was found in top comments. However, here on Lemmy, it’s more at a high school TikTok level, with top comments typically all very similar; mostly “some company is evil incarnate” or “I proudly pirate copyrighted material and here are the ways I’ve justified this for myself.”
None of this contributes to an informative comment section and it grinds my gears. I just wish this community would be better.
Yup lmao on my phone I got Malaysia as the first result while the others were nearby.
I’ve had this happen to me on Google maps on iOS before
Just in case anyone wants this converted to freedom units, 9.792 km is 744 spindles, and 2,6 km is about 95 shackles. HTH
That would be approximately 48,188,975 and 12,795 bananas respectively, assuming 8 inch average banana length. What fruit are we using for scale over here anyways? I missed some committee meetings.
Fruit as the basis for a measurement system? That sounds ridiculous. Use barleycorns like the rest of us!
Google Assistant is definitely getting worse and worse all the time. When the Google Homes first released they were actually pretty useful and handy. I was willing to pick a few up and they served a good purpose. They ran CIRCLES around Alexa and all those.
Now many years later, the devices don’t hear questions correctly, have to ask them four different times, they can’t even pick up my wife’s prompt words anymore, don’t even give reasonable answers when they do get the question right… It’s made hundreds of dollars worth of devices infuriating and useless.
I bought a product that worked. It no longer works because it’s been “updated”.
The worst part is that they’re still way better than Alexa. I hate the Google Home app; I can’t use the Alexa app.
Yeah, that’s still true as well. But it feels like one step ahead. Before it was in a totally different field. It’s gotten that much worse.
I’m so glad I’m not alone in this opinion. It’s absurd.
No, a lot of people recognize it has gotten worse, but the post is a device that doesn’t run off google maps but rather another guidance program so it will end up off topic everywhere
It would have been amusing to see the route trajectory
Everybody’s in here complaining but the app just wanted to show its user the rip in space and time it discovered just down the street.
And then you see the route trajectory making you turn into a river to flood your vehicle, or worse, have you turn onto a beach because the route trajectory goes right into the ocean like it thinks you are driving some sort of boat mobile.
Google maps has been getting worse as well. I’ve been moving off after many years of using it.
What do you use? I tried OSM but found the navigation interface required too many taps on hidden menus to set up and to close. It’s easy to re route on the fly on Google and just tap finish when arrived, but that’s not the case for OSM.
Osm+. It took a long time to set up, but it was worth it. What also helped is downloading as many local maps as possible and set up favorites. It’s not perfect, but for what I use it for, I like it.
Osm is okay, but honestly so far behind GMaps that I’d rather go blind than trust it. Better chance to arrive.
It’s still the closest and of course beats Apple Maps but being lost beats Apple Maps. But it also highlights how good Google Maps is at navigation.
If you rather go blind than trusting any digital maps, then the only other option is going back to old fashion paper maps that existed before Google Maps was a thing.
Sometimes I really struggle to understand how Google Maps works. I take some time finding the right area I want to search in, center the map in a very specific place, then search for a term or category and then it takes me to a completely different country to show the results.
It was doing this to me yesterday, kind of infuriating.
Fault of the crappy app you’re using, not Google.
Isn’t this just gmaps search?Which is also incidentally running on Android Auto which is also google?
Edit: nvm it’s a different nav app lmao
Do you guys like Burger King? I stopped eating there a long time ago and feel no need to go back after the foot lettuce incident…
TIL that incident
LOL how you can post that on 4chan and think they won’t do everything to doxx you 😂
I actually enjoy burger King but they are super unhealthy so I rarely go. Maybe once per year
I find Burger King has the best pictures of the worst burgers.
Terrible food, even by the ultra low standards set by McDonald’s.
Go on…
Buurgeer king foot lettuce, the last thing you want in your Burger King burger is someone’s foot fungus
Go on…
Buurgeer king foot lettuce
Original longer version: https://youtu.be/azSYefZhv1s
The Magic Earth app on Android auto does this to me all the time, I’ll bring up a saved address that’s only a short drive away and it will say it’s like 2000km away until I actually start navigation.
Try giving Android Auto the location permission and see if that fixes it.
What we really need is c/SoftwareGore
Yeah it exists !softwaregore
Edit: I don’t know how to do the magic linking thing but https://lemmy.world/c/softwaregore
You got so close!
I swear it used to be possible to tell the assistant to navigate to the nearest [franchise] and it would understand it. How has it gotten so much worse over time?
I don’t know, but my guess would be people gaming the algorithms. Search results have also gone to shit after everyone SEO-ed them to death, and this is probably the same.
My favorite optimization is this restaurant in NYC called Thai Food Near Me:
I remember that ten years ago you could tell it „Okay Google, bring me to [music festival]“ and it would reply „calculating route to [place where that festival is held]“ without problems. I wouldn’t bet on it still being able to do that.
And you may find yourself in another part of the world
And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile
And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife
And you may ask yourself “Well, how did I get here?”
Same as it ever was
And you may ask yourself “how did I end up here?”
You didn’t say nearest to what…
It’s a GPS device. Why wouldn’t the default be closest to your current location?
Because the local one didn’t pay as much for placement.
Some guy in Malaysia:
That’s the joke.
Maybe you passed by a space tunnel somehow
And then find out you are in Triangulum, the Galaxy known as M33, and wonder how the hell did you end up two million seven hundred thousand light years away.
Just do what it says. Drive to Malaysia. But chances are you’ll pass a few burger kings on the way.
Hey were you in Florence near the Piazzale Michelangelo?
WTF??? How did you extract that even if I censored it
I’m surprised 🤯 😂
I’m not the person who found it originally, but I understand how they did it. We have three useful data points: you are 2.6 km from Burger King in Italy, that BK is on a street called "Via " and you are 9792 km from Burger King in Malaysia.
- The upper BK in Malaysia is not censored, so we have its exact location.
- Find a place in Italy that is 9792 km away using the Measure Distance tool on something like Google Maps.
- Even though there are potentially multiple valid locations in Italy, we know you’re within 2.6 km of another BK. Florence is sensible because there are BKs near the 9792 km mark.
- Once we do that, we can find a spot that is both 9792 km from Malaysia BK and 2.6 km from a nearby BK on a street called “Via”, effectively finding where the image was taken.
It’s not perfect but it works well! This is the principle of how your GPS works. It’s called triangulation. We only had distance to two points and one of them doesn’t tell us the sub-kilometer distance. If we had distance to three points, we could find your EXACT location, within some error depending on how detailed the distance information was.Good explanation. Just a tiny detail: “via” in Italian literally means “street”, so not much info there.
Oops. Good to know… I guess the main thing was simply that there was a BK in the right place relative to the 9792 km arc then.
Isn’t the 9792 street distance though rather than a straight line?
I’m not sure Italy and Malaysia is connected by road
Yes a bit lucky but just draw the 9xxx km circle around the MY BK and then I saw the circle go straight through Florence (also Bologna was a likely candidate). Then find a BK within 2.6 km with a fairly long street name and draw a circle, it intersects with the other circle in two places. The obvious one was the parking near Piazzale M.
I can also get the GPS coordinates at all times from your phone so it was easy to verify I was right.
Can also make guesses as to where you’re from as well bc not too many languages spell it Malesia
edit: looks like Finland, for example, spells it like that, plus the Italia lines up as well
