<story><title>Google Maps Hacks (2020)</title><url>http://www.simonweckert.com/googlemapshacks.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eckmLJE</author><text>Around the time this fake traffic jam project was first performed, a friend of mine was working on a condo development that was just about ready to list for sale. They planned an open house. The property itself was very nice and successfully delivered. However, there was a problem.&lt;p&gt;The property was very convenient to a local highway without being so close that it experienced noise&amp;#x2F;traffic&amp;#x2F;primary exposure to exhaust, etc. Google Maps would reliably take people on this highway and to the same exit. From that exit, locals would go one way that was a nice, quiet drive through some residential parts of town. But Maps would take you a different way, a detour down a side street with a public housing project that often presented an open air drug market, and was the site of not infrequent shooting deaths.&lt;p&gt;Presumably Maps sent you that way because the other direct way was the way most people took, and so this detour had less traffic and was marginally faster. This street was some distance from the condo project, but it would still give people a certain impression of the neighborhood that the developer felt was unfair.&lt;p&gt;I sent them the linked writeup hoping they would try it, but they never did as far as I know. Also, I&amp;#x27;m not sure how well-received someone walking down this street with a bunch of phones in a wagon would be.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google Maps Hacks (2020)</title><url>http://www.simonweckert.com/googlemapshacks.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Steltek</author><text>How does Google Maps handle a bus or other transit? You could have 50 people, all starting and stopping every 100m, like it&amp;#x27;s bumper-to-bumper traffic. I suppose they don&amp;#x27;t all have Google Maps open but it could be reporting anyway. People don&amp;#x27;t need Navigation for the daily commute to work yet highways show up red just the same.</text></comment>