Gemini is rolling out to Maps on Android and iOS, with Android Auto coming soon.
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So long, Assistant—Gemini is taking over Google Maps
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So it chooses your route, but simultaneously also not responsible. Doesn't convey a sense of confidence.
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Uh, I know damned good and well how far 500 feet is. In contrast, I do not know what landmark the slopbot thinks is useful or how it will describe it.
Literally, this is why humanity invented standardized units.
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Same.
Hallucinations and mistakes will happen for sure.
If Apple does this with Apple Maps, I guess I will have to use open street maps or something.
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JFC... it means Gemini only handles the extra stuff like finding restaurants or gas stations or whatnot. Not the mapping & routing function, which gains nothing from leveraging ML.
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Plenty of useful alternatives to Google or Apple maps for navigation, Tomtom, Sygic , Here Maps etc.
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Are there any good third party map apps any more? Between this and Apple sticking advertisements in their maps program I'm looking for something to replace them both.
edit: on iOS.
edit: on iOS.
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Woof. I may, at long last, reinstall Apple Maps.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/26/ads-might-be-coming-to-apple-maps-next-year/
Sigh....
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"Start here. Go here."
How many new experiences do they think they're going to power?
How many new experiences do they think they're going to power?
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I'm using google Maps on iOs mainly for the better traffic info. Didn't know there was an assistant.
I type in an adress, follow the directions, park and stop using it.
I type in an adress, follow the directions, park and stop using it.
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Alphabet and Meta sure like to complain about privacy and security restrictions, don't they?
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Have all the good programmers fled Google? The quality of their software has really taken a tumble. Maps is especially bad. For example, open up maps on android.. that microphone button in the top right corner of the search bar doesn't actually work.. like it's not a button. You have to tap on the search bar itself, which opens up a new interface with a different microphone button that does work.
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So. I had an issue with Assistant. It didn't understand my English accent. Does the LLM work better? Do they support any language now?
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A work buddy of mine and me tried a little experiment with Gemini... We both on our phones would ask the exact same question about certain things and we made sure to spell and punctuate the same way.
Gemini would sometimes give starkly different answers to the same question, responding in the affirmative on one phone and in the negative on the other phone.
So, needless to say, we don't really trust Gemini to be consistent.
Gemini would sometimes give starkly different answers to the same question, responding in the affirmative on one phone and in the negative on the other phone.
So, needless to say, we don't really trust Gemini to be consistent.
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Landmarks? I'd be more worried about it "hallucinating" bridges over ravines.
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The hip kids are using old fashioned Garmin and TomTom GPS units. If you can, get the Garmin because TomTom has been caught doing sketchy things with data sales.
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It really feels like Google Maps has been getting worse and worse with recent releases. Glad to see this change to continue the trend. /s
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With so much money and so many layers in between my search and what I actually want this is getting to be too much.
Missing the days when search was dumb so I only had myself to blame if I couldn't find what I wanted.
Missing the days when search was dumb so I only had myself to blame if I couldn't find what I wanted.
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All the good programmers have retired. Their successors don't write code anymore; they let AI write code for them that never gets properly tested, just immediately deployed. UIs, for example, are definitely NOT a solved problem, but there hasn't been any innovation at all in the space for many years.
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The microphone button works for me. Single tap of the icon and I get the "Say where you want to go" prompt.
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A-Fucking-men. I don't want my navigation to be an "experience", I want it to be correct. Ernest Shackleton had a navigational "experience". Nobody needs that.
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Please tell me what you use for maps. I have been getting more and more dissatisfied with Google Maps even before Gemini. It just acts so strange compared to a few years ago. I ask for lodging in a certain small town and I get about a quarter of the USA instead.
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Try google maps along the northern border of Minnesota. It has been hallucinating bridges for about 10 years or more.
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I noticed yesterday that Android Auto's Google Maps had just added a bunch of map markers (in blinding white on night mode) for crappy chain restaurants. I had assumed they were just hoping to sell ads for that sort of thing, but I guess they also want to fold those into directions for even more brand awareness potential (I don't buy landmark navigation being easier at all)
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I took this as, Gemini isn't doing the actual navigating to the location, rather, it's used when you ask questions about additional locations, then passes that information to the program creating the route - not that Google is saying Gemini isn't responsible for hallucinations... Am I incorrect?
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Am I going to get told to "turn after the dog" because streetview captured a dog at an intersection once?
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I use Apple Maps. If they wind up putting adverts in, as some reports indicate they may, I'll move to something else, such as OpenMaps, or CoMaps, or something.
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Never used Assistant, so I'll probably also never use any part of this other than their injection of possibly dubious directions. I really hope there's a setting to just give me normal directions if this ends up pissing me off.
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So here's the acid test. Will it lead big trucks through Smuggler's Notch in Vermont on Route 108?
https://www.thedrive.com/news/semi-...c-vermont-road-even-though-they-all-get-stuck
https://www.thedrive.com/news/semi-...c-vermont-road-even-though-they-all-get-stuck
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