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by vitaflo 2562 days ago
I just finished a 2 month road trip and used a mixture of Google Maps and Apple Maps and have to agree, Google Maps was surprisingly sub par. This really surprised me.

The largest offender was routing from an Airbnb in Northern California to a restaurant nearby about 14 miles away. Google put us on a path that would take 3 hours! I had to double check to make sure it wasn't on walking or public transit mode. It was the most convoluted thing I've ever seen. Every time I re-entered it gave the same ridiculous route.

Very strange routing like this happened with regularity. Apple Maps had no such issues (and routed properly around closures). Add on the fact that the reviews in Google Maps are worthless because everything gets 5 stars, as we got further into the trip we pretty just only used Apple Maps.