Google Maps changed the way we get around. It all began in a bedroom in Sydney

&gt;The Guardian lol<p>MapQuest actually changed the way we get around. It all began in 1967 in Chicago.

Too bad Google maps is a pile of garbage now. Directions that include advertisements. Nonsensical naming of bodies of water.<p>Google eats a bag of dicks more and more every day.

I heard a story, that I often recounted, that Google was famously made in the one day a week (10%) time engineers got for personal projects and development.<p>Seems I was misinformed and been spreading a falsehood all these years. Oh well. Now I know.

&gt; Google Maps changed the way we get around. It all began in a bedroom in Sydney<p>I guess &quot;The Guardian&quot; is in financial difficulties. They don&#x27;t have money to pay students to find out about iGo, TomTom and others. And the funniest part: they want money for this &quot;article&quot;. &#x2F;s

And since then, much like search, Google has apparently been on a mission to ruin Maps.<p>There are many stories of Google Maps getting people stranded in remote locations. Anecdotally, I find its route suggestions become less sensible every year.<p>Last month I took a drive through regional Australia from Swan Hill to Albury.<p>The quickest, safest, most fuel efficient and easiest route is to follow B400 Murray Valley Highway all the way, and this is what Apple Maps suggested.<p>Google Maps, on the other hand absolutely refused to do this. It insisted on routing me down dirt tracks in the middle of nowhere, even when I added every major town on the route as an intermediate stop. This is the sort of thing that gets people stranded and killed.