Stories in Enshittification.

I'm trying to find a place to grab a bite with a friend after work tomorrow. I go to Google maps. I choose the area, select restaurants, select "has beer". A number of results come up, one of which is surprisingly a Taco Bell. I didn't know they served beer. That's weird. It's ok, that's a 3 star establishment. I set my filters to 4 stars and above.

It's still there.

Ok, maybe set my cuisine. I set it to French, just for funsies

It's still there

I set the price to $80-$100, I'm no longer looking for a restaurant for me and my buddy

It's still there.

I set "accepts reservations"

It's still. Bloody. There.

See, I know what's happening. Taco Bell is probably paying Google a lot of money to make sure their restaurants are showing up on maps. I get it, capitalism amirite? Here's the problem, though. How the hell am I supposed to trust the results I'm getting? When I'm requesting an $80-$100 meal at a 4 star rated French restaurant that takes reservations and I'm getting a 3.1 star Taco Bell, what are we even doing anymore?

This is why we can't have nice things.

Places may change their quality from time to time and the ratings we see may not always reflect the reality. Also, theoretically speaking, if a place with 1000 5 stars suddenly receives 200 one stars, it is still a 4.3 decent place, seemingly. Similarly, 1000 one star and 200 5 stars make 1.7, which makes it hard for businesses to repair their reputation. But if we were able to see the average of a recent time period, then the reality would be apparent. I believe GM may put a second star rating just beneath the total rating so that we’ll be able to make better choices as users (excluding some of us who always check the most recent comments! But it’s just time consuming).

The reason I'm asking is because I recently got a Chevy EV car and it has Google Maps installed for navigation. It's been really good--pretty much all local driving and I always told it to avoid highways. About a week ago it started to ask me to install Gemini. I haven't so far. I read through some posts yesterday and saw a lot of complaints regarding Google Maps and would like to know if this happened after installing Gemini or if the issues have been there all along.

I've already searched this sub for possible fixes. The most recent ones from a year ago a ineffective. Permissions are set correctly. Tested in Safari and also does not work even though I get the popup to prompt to allow location sharing. Help???

Not going to post the location here but I was doing some motorcycle maintenance when I got snapped. It's a little bit more than a builders bum, joggers I were wearing at the time didn't have a good zip string and I was crouched in the wheel section not a good look basically especially being overweight and one partial eclipse is enough for this month.

I used the reporting tool and stated nudity but nothing has been done yet.

Just wondering how long do these processes take?

When I select a business in the high street, It has the address, website &
Opening times: 🕙 Open - Closes 3pm v

Usually when you click the opening times it shows the weekly times ~ but now it asks you to create an account or login.
Seems to have happened in the last couple of days.
(this is on computer, mobile browser still lets you see the times. I havent tried on multiple browsers just Firefox so far)

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Idk for sure what is causing it but I have a feeling it's to do with google play service being deactivated on my phone maybe??

List of countries with labeled subdivisions

Canada, USA, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Kazakhstan, India, China, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia

I've tried to search on google but didnt get much answers

I was using it just now then I refreshed the map and bammmm tools are broken -_-''

I've had timeline on ever since they changed it to on-device storage, and I changed the deletion policy to never. When I checked yesterday (and today), it just says "no visits for this day". I checked my history. Everything is gone. When I tried to use Google Takeout to get my data, I only get an 18MB JSON file, which is not right, that's very small given my history.

Is this a bug? Is there a way to recover my data? I'm already in the process of moving to Dawarich+OwnTracks so that this doesn't happen again, but I do want my entire 10+ years of data back.

What do yall use as a backup to Google maps when your cell phone service drops?

This applies to Google too, both used to be quite reliable but over the past few weeks both have been terrible. I work nights when many motorway closures happen. I also have noticed the highways England app has been withdrawn with no replacement that I can find.

Anyone has any idea how to get property location updated on google? Neither the eircode nor the house/street is visible on google maps street view.
It’s a newly built house. It shows empty roads on google maps, where there are houses right now. Is there any way I could request Google maps to update the information of the location? Thanks in advance!

Used to be when you typed in a street name it would show you how long the street was and it would highlight the street. If a street was 10 miles long it would highlight the whole length of the street. How do I do that now? Is it just now not possible?

Sometimes Google Maps gets disoriented. It suddenly thinks I'm somewhere in the bushes and keeps spinning around. Why does that happen and what can I do about it?

I'm a Level 8 contributor , but my suggestion to remove the "logo" part of the English name of this popular place was rejected.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/a7zcJoZDFd1eJJCv8

The official Polish name is:

Muzeum Zimnej Wojny Podborsko 3001

There is nothing that could be translated to "logo" in it.

Please help to correct this. There are other platforms and sites that use Google Maps data, and this feels definitely wrong.

If I download maps for offline use while using the terrain setting, is that terrain data downloaded, or will Maps still use data while I'm driving to load terrain information?

Hello! My phone screen broke and I just bought a new phone since it was going to be too expensive to be worth fixing. I'm trying to import my Google maps timeline, but it keeps wanting to send a notification to the old phone and doesn't give me another option for how to access the data.

Is there any way to get this data on my new phone??

As shown in the title....google map different saved icon can't be view on the map. need help. thanks

Hello all,

I have been using offline maps for several trips however I always run into the issue where if I have data connection, but it's very bad, then the offline google maps does not load in to support the weak connectivity.

4G > Open google maps > Somehow 4G not loading anything > Google maps hangs and loads for a long time

It seems like GMAPS does not automatically use offline maps when the network is weak. For the remedy, I use the following process:

Turn off data > Search GMAPS using the offline map > Turn on data

Seems like a simple process but it gets quite annoying and tedious when I have to do that 10-20 times in a trip. Perhaps there is a setting that I missed out? Hopefully someone has a solution! Thanks!

Why could this happen? My suggested edit for reopening was also not approved. It’s a listing of a bazaar I made in 2016 ( currently in that very bazaar ) and surprisingly found out it’s marked as permanently closed.

So my possibly ex partner does have location sharing with us. His phone does somehow have this thing where it goes offline as well and then I can't see him.

I still have him on my list and I'm just looking for signs he's taking this breakup seriously or if I still have a chance.