[batiudrami]

Good for navigation, terrible for up to date business information (opening hours) and reviews.

Google maps’ reviews aren’t great - everything is a 4.3 because they incentivised users to review business interactions they didn’t care about by paying them pennies in Google pay credit - but it will at least tell me reliably if a business is closed today or has shut down.

[walthamstow]

The network effect of Google Maps is huge. If a restaurant menu isn't officially online, someone will have posted a picture of the menu and half the dishes on it.

[pixelesque]

Google maps' business/shop/restaurent information is indeed a lot better than Apple maps / Yelp in the UK, however I've found here it relies on business owners to update that info, and so often has "orphaned" businesses / restaurants still in it that have closed months (sometimes more than 6) ago.

Sometimes there's a recent review saying that, but other times there's no indication at all.

[RickS]

That's fair, I agree. But anything that can be contorted into a billboard will be, so that shortcoming is more feature than bug, at least for me. They're just a map, and that's it, which ~~keeps~~ kept them on the right-ish side of Goodhart's law.

[sroussey]

Good for navigation? I use as default but never if I’m in a hurry.

[satyamkapoor]

Agree ++