{"id":136140,"date":"2018-04-17T15:35:18","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T21:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=136140"},"modified":"2018-04-28T00:08:26","modified_gmt":"2018-04-28T06:08:26","slug":"google-maps-is-experimenting-with-natural-directions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/04\/17\/google-maps-is-experimenting-with-natural-directions.html","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps is experimenting with natural directions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like, “Turn right at the Burger King.”<\/p>\n

Which sounds like a cool idea, and probably is in 99% of the cases. I can see wanting to limit the types of companies used as land marks (Burger King is obvious; Smith and Jones Legal Offices on the 14th Floor, probably not), and there’s a danger of companies going out of business. But that sounds like a refinement.<\/p>\n

Plus, I now understand better the Maps Contributor questions about “Is this business plainly visible from the street?”<\/p>\n


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\nGoogle Maps uses landmarks to provide natural-sounding directions<\/a><\/span>
\nGoogle Maps now uses local landmarks to give you more human-like directions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Like, “Turn right at the Burger King.” Which sounds like a cool idea, and probably is in 99% of the cases. I can see wanting to limit the types of companies used as land marks (Burger King is obvious; Smith and Jones Legal Offices on the 14th Floor, probably not), and there’s a danger of … Continue reading “Google Maps is experimenting with natural directions”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,5,80,20],"tags":[1531,1450,1530],"class_list":["post-136140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-cars","category-media-commercial","category-hi-tech","tag-gps","tag-maps","tag-satnav"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Google-Maps.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135122,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/20\/burger-king-bullying-psa.html","url_meta":{"origin":136140,"position":0},"title":"A Burger King Bullying PSA","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 20-Oct-17 2:12pm","format":false,"excerpt":"One doesn't associate Burger King with Public Service Announcements or positive social causes or things like that. 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