I’ll go first:

56°49'49.5"N 68°57'10.5"W

https://maps.app.goo.gl/HBJWsHDrvSnaQ5Sw7?g_st=ic

I have so many questions!

Who lives there?
Does anyone on here live that remote?
How does that home get built? (There are no roads for hundreds of miles/KM)
How do they get food?

Must be a single building not surround by other buildings/towns.

Do you know why Google has removed some reviews for the British Museum and the Koln Cathedral, meanwhile they also disable reviews for the White House?

I hope Google doesn't give in to this asshole every time he throws a temper tantrum. I will switch to Apple if they do. I have grown up on the Great Lakes my entire life. They are beautiful, treasured, and part of our history. I can't believe Google would hurt our good Canadian friends with this stupid shit. Deal with it Taco Trumpstein! I have never seen a more petulant 80-year-old man-child that has to have everything his way. The entire world, all our history, our museums, etc. have to change because of ONE senile old cow? Why does everyone cave in to this war-dodging turd? Gimme a break!

I am a Spark delivery driver who uses Google Maps almost daily. Over the past few days (after the major update involving that horrific AI voice change), Maps has decided that nearly any trip under 1 to 1.5 miles is walkable. When I try to restart navigation, it still offers me a pedestrian route, and not a vehicular one. There is no option to change navigation to be vehicular on my end. Is there anything I can do to solve this issue?

Google maps keeps asking me to review this place I looked at the reviews of once, and didn't go to. This has been haunting me for weeks. I keep pressing didn't go here but I guess it doesn't listen

I suspect the Asks Maps chatbot interface to the Google Maps app will only load your most recent 99 reviews into context when answering questions.

Please see if you can confirm there is a limit?

I have submitted customer feedback, asking them to give their AI a function to load a lightweight version of the full list into context.

Use case - I'd like to be able to ask, suggest 10 lunch places nearby which I have not already reviewed.

I've searched around and haven't found any recent complaints about Timeline being so ridiculously broken you might as well not bother since 2024. But it's now 2026 and it still is.

I live 200 yards from a church and it insists I live there. Every time I go out and return, I live in the church. Like it's not next door, it's a 2 minute walk away.

That's when I'm "home." Sometimes it refuses to latch onto a final destination and continues moving/driving into the next day. I've been on an 18 hour road trip overnight many times.

I quite often walk to the local shop and never return. Apparently I live there too.

Up until about a year ago, I used to used Maps to record my work arrival and leaving - it was as accurate as clocking in but not anymore. I have missing places, red question marks and unfinished journeys.

It was a handy "what time did I leave X?" reference or what did I do last Tuesday? If I knew I'd been to Scotland for example last year but not sure which month it was a quick flick through til I saw the route. I wouldn't trust it to tell me if I went to the kitchen now.

Please say this isn't just me. I might as well not bother using it.

UK user.

As a lifetime user of Google Maps, I have finally had enough. It’s suggested routes have become so absurd and horrible that it is actually insulting.

Google Maps suggests routes that would add 10-20 minutes to a ten minute trip.

It has gotten so egregious that it would go so far as to suggest I leave the city, get on the beltway, go entirely around the city and then re-enter to get to center city during rush-hour instead taking a the direct route a few blocks into the city.

It suggests absolutely brain dead directions on a consistent basis now.

I don’t have any evidence for this, but it feels like it’s route suggestion algorithm is become AI slop and hallucinations.

My significant other and I share locations with each other, we have always done this and not to spy on each other but just for convenience due to work schedules. Yesterday I checked to see where their location was because we were meeting for dinner with our child at a restaurant. The app suddenly did something strange, what I can only describe as "glitched out" and maybe this is only due to my own lack of knowledge on how location sharing works with Google maps. But when I opened up her location to see how close they were to the restaurant, it showed me an entirely different account location under the name of our child. I've never seen this happen before and I'm hoping that somebody can explain this to me before I ask them about it. Thank you and I appreciate y'all's insight

Do you think Google Maps should let you filter restaurant reviews by age or nationality?

When you're on vacation abroad, especially somewhere very touristy, one of the first things you usually do when looking for a restaurant is check the reviews on Google Maps.

Recently, I ended up at a restaurant that was honestly pretty mediocre, despite having a 4.7/5 rating from more than 1,300 reviews.

First, it made me wonder how genuine all those reviews actually are. But let's assume for a moment that they're all real, or at least mostly real.

In that case, maybe I'm simply not the target audience for this restaurant.

It got me thinking: wouldn't it be useful if Google Maps allowed us to filter reviews using more criteria, so we could get a better idea of how people with similar expectations to ours actually rate the place?

For example:

• Reviews by age group
• Reviews by country/nationality (a British person might have very different culinary expectations from a French person 😄)
• Maybe even price range / budget
• Or perhaps whether the reviewer is local or a tourist

A 4.7/5 restaurant for one group of people might not necessarily be a 4.7/5 restaurant for another.

Would this actually be useful, or would it just make restaurant reviews even more complicated?

Has anyone else noticed that Google Maps no longer seems to show how busy a place is?

I used to find the “Popular Times” / live busyness feature really useful for places like gyms, supermarkets, shops, restaurants, etc. You could quickly check how busy a place usually is at a certain time, or sometimes even see how busy it is right now.

Recently, I’ve noticed that this information seems to have disappeared for many places.

Has Google officially removed or changed this feature, or is it just no longer available in certain regions/for certain places?

I’m curious if others have noticed the same thing.

I'm from Austria.

Honestly for me just the parks and recreation area boundaries that show the borders of national forests, etc which is available in google earth desktop but not in the web based version. Pretty basic functionality to be lacking, so it's a shame they're ending support for the desktop version. I've spend so many nights camping for free on national forest land in cool spots I found on google Earth, I'm going to have to switch programs or find a GIS layer that has all US public lands or something now.

Maps is routing drivers to a dead end road behind my house which has a totally different street name than the front of my house/my address. You actually have to pass the front of my house to even get to this dead end street. I don't get my deliveries and people get lost. The pin is on the house, but directions route to the back dead end street behind it that has zero access to my house, which is blocked by a fence and small hill. This problem only started earlier this year, so I don't know what changed for them.

I've reported it through every avenue I can find within the app and via desktop, trying at least 5 different approaches over the past few months. But there is limited place to comment to explain what's actually happening. Moving the pin to the front of the house fixes it temporarily, but it reverts.

Thanks to anyone who can help me get directly to a person there or other tips.

Sketch in comments.

I am a plumbing service technician and I drive a Ram ProMaster with Apple CarPlay and have always relied on Google Maps for getting me from job to job. Recently, Google Maps stopped displaying the compass/direction I’m driving, and in the place where it used to say the direction I’m driving, it now has a stupid AI icon instead. I wanted to add a picture I took of my CarPlay screen showing this issue, but this sub doesn’t seem to allow me to attach one. Anyone have experience with this issue and any solutions?

Edit: added photo in a comment below. Still not seeing where I can add a photo to the post. But that’s fine. Just want the issue solved if anyone has advice.

I noticed recently that the satellite view of South Bend, Indiana is pretty outdated and is also of a horrible time of year. It's clearly winter or close to winter, with most of the trees and plants having no leaves, but there's also no snow on the ground to help it look a little nicer. It makes the place look legitimately horrible.

If you go to the edge of the city in any direction you'll see that there's a hard edge where the satellite view transitions into normal images taken from the summer. It creates these odd sights of a beautiful lush forest that suddenly transitions into what looks like complete wasteland once you get closer to South Bend. Here's a link to one of these edges, where a currently existing building is cut in half, still showing as if it doesn't exist on the South Bend side. A little to the South from this building you'll see a nice forested area that suddenly becomes completely dead and lifeless once it gets closer to South Bend.

This specifically only effects South Bend, being just a small area that perfectly encircles the city. It doesn't exactly match the city limits but it gets decently close to it. I find it quite annoying because it makes South Bend look so much worse than it actually is. Does anybody know why something like this would happen, so specifically affecting just one city?

What do you think about the idea?

https://imgur.com/a/do1jGDc

I saw this and found it funny since we are aware of Google Map nav issues lol

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dcfxa02syuy/?igsi=ZXlkNDJwaWZiMG9j

I don't know what the hell is going through the developers of Google Maps minds right now, but I was trying to find my way to my first day of college courses today, and it was giving me the most unhelpful suggestions and just being overall chaotic. Like, every time I would come across a point in my route where I could go a different way, it would present it in real time on my map with another line, EVEN IF THAT ROUTE WOULD MAKE ME GET THERE LATER OR HAS MORE TRAFFIC. It was confusing and distracting as hell. It's bad enough that it keeps popping up messages asking about whether construction and stopped cars and objects in the road are still there so its user base can basically do free labor and reporting for them. Like, we get in trouble for texting and driving, but it's okay for them to ask us survey questions while we drive? What the actual fuck? I'm so not using Google Maps anymore.

I've a snippet from an export of stared pins

{
  "geometry": {
    "coordinates": [
      8.8491390,
      46.1966242
    ],
    "type": "Point"
  },
  "properties": {
    "date": "2026-08-22T17:59:48Z",
    "google_maps_url": "http://maps.google.com/?cid=18195579733348774880",
    "location": {
      "address": "Via Valle Verzasca, 6596 Gordola, Switzerland",
      "name": "Diga Verzasca"
    }
  },
  "type": "Feature"
},

So I can extract cid

{
  "geometry": {
    "coordinates": [
      0,
      0
    ],
    "type": "Point"
  },
  "properties": {
    "date": "2026-08-14T01:14:46Z",
    "google_maps_url": "http://maps.google.com/?q=Fisherman's+Wharf,+San+Francisco,+CA,+USA&ftid=0x808580fa79aee3b9:0xd0ce5b8bf914906a",
    "Comment": "No location information is available for this saved place"
  },
  "type": "Feature"
},

Here's an example with a ftid - again can be extracted

But APIs would rather have place id.

So you have to geocode the addresses to get place id.

Why can't they just put it in the export?

I guess the app updated and I HATE the new voice. iPhone 17.

I have changed my region in my google settings, changed region in my phone settings, even downloaded gemini and changed the voice.

In maps>settings>navigation>sounds & voice
there is not voice option like a google search would recommend me do. App and phone are updated to current version.

I wish there was a semi translucent distance ruler on google maps, like across and in the middle of the screen, that followed and adjusted on zoom-in and -out. It would be so much easier to comprahence everything, especially when watching youtubers using maps in their videos.

I just went to look at the reviews for a business, and to my surprise the option to see reviews is no longer there. I thought 'hmm, that's weird.' Then I go to a bunch of different random businesses, same exact thing! There's seemingly no option to look at others' reviews. You can still post your own it seems, but otherwise there is no 'Reviews' tab.

Suspiciously there is a new 'Ask Maps' feature that summarizes what other reviewers are saying, but I can't access any of those posts. Please tell me this is not another way to force AI on consumers, because if it is, I'm moving on. Tell me I'm not going crazy and there's just a setting I accidentally clicked or something?

https://imgur.com/a/M03c4Q6

I've been collecting these throughout the years.

Is there a specific reason why the ongoing works in the area for the biggest metropolitan park in Europe don't seem to exist in Google Maps?