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]
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Directions from my home on Bob White Dr. Sumter, SC are incorrect from minute I leave my driveway. I am told to make a right on Quail Run and left on Tantay Trail to Cains Mill Rd. That is nonsense. Tantay Trail is to the left, north of Bob White Dr. not to the right. I should know. I’ve lived here for over 4 years and there are only 2 streets in my community, Bob White and Quail Run, with only one entrance and exit road, Bob White Dr. Quail Run does not even run into Tantay Trail, as there is a wooded forest at the north end of Quail Run.
If you can’t even tell me how to leave my community, how can I trust Google Maps to get me where I am going. By the way, I understand your maps are from the same company as where my GPS gets their maps. My GPS is correct. It actually knows where I live and the location of my surrounding streets. Why don’t you?
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