Do you hate it when Google Maps gives you wrong directions or forces you to pay tolls? I want to help improve Google Maps to help make it the best Internet Map service. Here is my list of suggestions to improve their already decent mapping service.
Possible Improvements for Google Maps:
- Give users the choice over why type of route they want.
- Pull a traffic feed in to the page. This will help super-serve your users to get the latest details.
- Include Weather.com RSS feeds as a mashup?
- Link to cities’ traffic cams. This will provide users a real-life look at the traffic.
- Let users comment nearby routes or let users share their routes with others.
- More … ?
Basically, if you examine my suggestions, you will find that I want the Google Maps to transform to a infantile mapping service to a complete maps and traffic information hub, to serve as a utility for everyone find the best route and information about the roads. Mapquest already provides the user the ability to not take tolls, highways, or otherwise.
What do you think? What should Google do to improve their Maps service?
[tags]Google, Maps, Internet, Roads, Suggestions, Mashups[/tags]