Google Maps 4+

Thank goodness for Google every day . I was on the way to visit my friends who o had known for 60 years. Their Mother had passed and we grew up together. I had not been to her sons house for at least 7 years. I usually saw him at functions or at work. I had been there before the new roads were built and the housing additions by the lake were built . I grew up around the old roads and knew the way by horses and cattle ranches. I had went to see and visited the family. I had gotten irrevocably lost in the 99 degree heat and my patience was waning and I was desperate to get out of my car. I drove to the store on the corner and pulled inn and there was no store.
I’m 75 mies from Tulsa on a dirt road that had no street markers. I was hoping my phone didn’t die and. Leave me stranded in desperation I asked Google for directions to Ronnie’s house on Hound Dog Holler. Not Hollow…to my amazement it told me to turn around and go back 5 miles to the junction with the mailbox’s. Which I quickly did and found his house behind a new privacy fence that I had never seen. I walked in grabbed a beer and hit the shower as fast as I possibly could..
Thank you Google for this weekend that I could have never had without the saving Grace of the last road I ever would have taken…

In the recent past if I wanted to go to a specific location all I had to do was open up my browser, hit the directions button, and the Google Maps app would open and take me right there. Now when I go through that same process an alternative screen comes up, but you can’t see all of the options when you’re driving so you pull over and you’re still fumbling your way through the process with extended steps to maneuver through it and ultimately wants you to open up the Google Maps app, but by the time you get there the address is completely gone and won’t transfer over to the app. This app is completely useless because it will not allow you to navigate anywhere with directions now. I’ve done all of the updates, but to no avail does this app work. I’m sure I’m not the only person to complain about this, but at this point, I’m going to have to completely delete the Google Maps app and go with an alternative solution. Google Maps has one job to do. Why did you have to mess up what was already working? Now your app is non-functional.

Map doesn’t display on screen when I’m using step by step navigation but it does when you’re driving. So you can’t see where you’re going…you get notifications on your screen for each direction instead, something you have to try to read and pedal and steer simultaneously, unless you enjoy stopping to see what your next direction is after every single one you complete. That’s the other thing, it gives you directions literally the moment you need them. When you drive, if it says go left, you turn left and it tells you your next street and turn to look for and the distance before you reach it. In cycling mode, in the same scenario, it would say turn left as you reached the street and continue to say turn left until you reach your next turn. So you have no idea at all what to look for, can’t anticipate anything, and you’re basically riding blind between each step. And if you miss a step, it automatically re routes you, so I rode about three miles uphill needlessly in the rain yesterday because I couldn’t hear my phone over the road and rain noise, nor had any idea what turn to look for, when to look for it, or how to rectify all of those failures in real time, I was pretty much being led astray in the pouring rain by an app that doesn’t have any of these problems in driving mode…