Do you mind if I pass these comments along to the Maps team?
No, go ahead.
When you say "would be the best way", what do you mean? Not using unpaved or otherwise smaller/slower roads?
Things like taking highway exits that are "before" your destination, even though passing it on the highway and going "backwards" on surface streets would be faster and/or less involved.
It's also really bad at route-finding on the city level. Like picking weird side streets and throwing in inexplicable U-turns.
Here's an example of both, from the MIT area to Worcester Polytechnic Institute:
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Date: 2008-08-12 07:45 pm (UTC)No, go ahead.
When you say "would be the best way", what do you mean? Not using unpaved or otherwise smaller/slower roads?
Things like taking highway exits that are "before" your destination, even though passing it on the highway and going "backwards" on surface streets would be faster and/or less involved.
It's also really bad at route-finding on the city level. Like picking weird side streets and throwing in inexplicable U-turns.
Here's an example of both, from the MIT area to Worcester Polytechnic Institute:
Google Maps is weird.
MapQuest goes the way I would.