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by BlueTemplar 1992 days ago
This is surprising to me, because AFAIK GMaps tends to calculate the fastest route, rather than the shortest one. But perhaps it just didn't have enough movement data where you tried it ?
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> It just didn't have enough movement data where you tried it

That maybe the reason, main roads have it, side-roads not so much. GMaps now have offline destination finder, I guess it doesn't even consider the movement data. The dependence on internet service for better route calculation is a bummer for travelling here.

That's a shame, there's nothing that prevents (the long-term, average) traffic data to be downloaded, just like map data is.