Google maps taking me in circles?
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I like to use google maps as a say-nav since I find it’s better than the car system most of the time. However I’ve recently had a challenge with it a few times. It’ll send me on a route then ask me to turnaround and go back, or it’ll do a fairly wide circle around the destination getting there eventually. Yesterday if I’d done what it wanted I’d have gone through the tunnel under the river Mersey and then literally turned around at the next roundabout and gone straight back through the tunnel. I’ve looked at the settings but can’t see anything obvious. Any ideas? Thanks
Sorry I can't help with your specific problem but I have myself experienced some strange Google Maps behaviour.
Periodically and maybe after an update it decides to Avoid Motorways. At first I think it must be rerouting to avoid a traffic jam but after a a few diversions down minor roads it dawns on me.
Slightly more bizarre are a couple of times where Google Maps ignores the existence of the M5 and especially the section between the M6 and M42 and won't even show the road on the map when I am actually driving along it.
I expect everyone experiences the periodic decision where Google Maps decides to stop showing traffic conditions.
Periodically and maybe after an update it decides to Avoid Motorways. At first I think it must be rerouting to avoid a traffic jam but after a a few diversions down minor roads it dawns on me.
Slightly more bizarre are a couple of times where Google Maps ignores the existence of the M5 and especially the section between the M6 and M42 and won't even show the road on the map when I am actually driving along it.
I expect everyone experiences the periodic decision where Google Maps decides to stop showing traffic conditions.
Go into settings and double check everything from Fastest Route to Avoiding Tolls. I once dropped Vikingette2 off at Uni in Manchester and altered the setting to avoid toll roads (so I didn't come down the M6 Toll) as I was returning early on a Sunday and I wanted to cruise through the Peak District. Then for a couple of weeks later it kept routing me through the Blackwall Tunnel rather than the Dartford Crossing because it was still avoiding tolls.
Google maps usually specialises in never telling you to do a U-Turn.
If you leave my office (Central London) and follow google maps, it'll have you follow the one way system all the way over the river and back round again - If you go out, turn left down a dead end, you can come out and turn right and save about an hour..
Perhaps likely in your case though, it isn't unheard of for Junctions to be classified incorrectly - There's another near me where it doesn't believe you are allowed to go straight across, and will instead send you on a few mile detour down rat runs.
If you leave my office (Central London) and follow google maps, it'll have you follow the one way system all the way over the river and back round again - If you go out, turn left down a dead end, you can come out and turn right and save about an hour..
Perhaps likely in your case though, it isn't unheard of for Junctions to be classified incorrectly - There's another near me where it doesn't believe you are allowed to go straight across, and will instead send you on a few mile detour down rat runs.
I’ve had a couple of instances recently where it’s only offered routes in the direction I’m facing, when a quick u turn or drive round the block would point me the other way. The most recent example was five miles if I turned round but Google only offered two routes, both over fifteen miles!
I don’t remember it doing that in the past so maybe it’s this ‘avoid u-turns’ thing that another poster mentioned.
I don’t remember it doing that in the past so maybe it’s this ‘avoid u-turns’ thing that another poster mentioned.
Every so often my Google Maps decides I don't live where I do, and instead moves the location of my "Home" to a small village about 2 miles away from my house. I've checked my saved locations (Home, Work etc) and that shows the right place, so I don't know why it wants me to move to the middle of someone else's road.
boyse7en said:
Every so often my Google Maps decides I don't live where I do, and instead moves the location of my "Home" to a small village about 2 miles away from my house. I've checked my saved locations (Home, Work etc) and that shows the right place, so I don't know why it wants me to move to the middle of someone else's road.
Infuriating. On my home PC Google Maps has forgotten my home location and has placed me 30 miles north. This causes me frustration when I am checking routes before leaving and it starts from the wrong location.However it may not really be Google Maps at fault as it could be my Edge browser picking up what it thinks is my IP address location according to the location of my ISP.
My mobile phone is getting location OK.
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