I use Komoot for wild walking and biking, and it’s incredible. Hugely more accurate and reliable. Just wondering if there’s something like that for city and intercity travel. Thanks for suggestions!

  • Mr_Blott@lemmy.worldOP
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    11 months ago

    Took me the wrong direction multiple times, wrong entrances three times, twice tried to send me the wrong way up a one way. Every time you stop, and put in a new destination, it assumes you’ve turned round 180° and gives you wrong directions to start with, then takes 30 seconds to correct itself. While walking, it constantly thinks you’re walking backwards. This is over the course of a 5 day trip

    It’s fucking infuriating now!

    Thanks for the suggestion, I’ll look it up!

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          11 months ago

          The spinning thing is the best you can hope for, but some phones just don’t have good compasses. Sometimes calibrating the compass and then using GPS to get the right heading will fix a phone’s sense of direction for a while, but if the phone keeps losing north, it’s possible you’ll need to recalibrate constantly.

          Note that these sensors are affected by nearby magnetic metals, so if you have a metal phone case of some kind, or if you attach it to a metal steering handle, you may be messing up the readings that way. Electromagnetic fields (of, say, a high current wire) can also induce errors, though I’m not sure how you would accomplish such a field while using your phone for navigation.

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      11 months ago

      Mine just recently embedded advertisements for businesses inside the map navigation screen itself, I just want to drive without seeing coupons for Firestone