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Google maps routing issue

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  • 05-06-2019 2:03pm
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    highdef
    Registered Users Posts: 6,150 ✭✭✭


    Having been driving on the same route to work for about 9 years, Google Maps has begun routing me via a longer route and is refusing to send me via a certain road.

    I travel from north Kildare to Inchicore. I leave the R148 (old N4) after Palmerstown and travel down to Chapelizod. I then drive up Saint Lawrences Road, on to Ballyfermot Road. I turn right onto Sarsfield Road and the right again onto Grattan Crescent and into Inchicore. What's happening of late is that Maps does not want me to travel onto Grattan Crescent at all.

    Below is an example of the routing it is giving me from just before the turn off onto Sarsfield Road with my normal route highlighted in yellow which I am still taking. Is this something that can be reported to Google or is there possibly something that has changed or will soon change to make this route change seem more sensible?

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    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,278 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Are all your turns (still) legal?

    It may be that the east end of Sarsfield Road has been incorrectly flagged as bus-only in both directions.

    Google Maps are notoriously difficult to contact and are generally unresponsive. There is a "Report a Problem" button on the bottom right of the Google Map (this seems to alternate with a "Send Feedback" button).

    Wouldn't M50-Naas Road or Kylemore Road be better?


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    highdef
    Registered Users Posts: 6,150 ✭✭✭highdef


    Victor wrote: »
    Are your turns legal?

    Yes, all legal and above board. Sarsfield Road is one way for private vehicles. There is a contraflow bus lane on it however I travel in the legal direction. Grattan Crescent appears to be the road that Maps no longer likes. It does everything it can to avoid travelling on Grattan Crescent.


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    Dexter2019
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    If you know the way yourself ,why do you need Google maps?

    Not trying to be funny, just dont understand the logic..


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    highdef
    Registered Users Posts: 6,150 ✭✭✭highdef


    Dexter2019 wrote: »
    If you know the way yourself ,why do you need Google maps?

    Not trying to be funny, just dont understand the logic..

    Because my expected arrival time at work is no longer accurate. Depending on which alternative route that maps is suggested to me, my journey time can be showing as being over 10 minutes longer than when I travel via my normal route.

    I use maps for my commute mainly as a tool to estimate my journey time rather than the actual routing but if the routing is wrong, then my journey time is wrong.


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    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 28,838 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    I have noticed this lately as well, Google maps giving bizarre and unnecessarily long routes. Mostly within Dublin in my case.

    I can't give specific examples unfortunately, but it's puzzled me for a few months now.


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    OldMrBrennan83
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    Dexter2019 wrote: »
    If you know the way yourself ,why do you need Google maps?

    Not trying to be funny, just dont understand the logic..

    It's excellent for traffic.


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    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,278 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    It's not allowing cars on Sarsfield Road at all, even for short trips. https://www.google.ie/maps/dir/53.3418677,-6.32245/53.3419329,-6.3213713/@53.3422409,-6.324334,17z/data=!4m2!4m1!3e0

    It is allowing short trips on Grattan Crescent.
    https://www.google.ie/maps/dir/53.3406451,-6.3202117/53.3410337,-6.3199005/@53.3408023,-6.3224485,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!4m1!3e0


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    highdef
    Registered Users Posts: 6,150 ✭✭✭highdef


    Victor wrote: »
    It's not allowing cars on Sarsfield Road at all, even for short trips. https://www.google.ie/maps/dir/53.3418677,-6.32245/53.3419329,-6.3213713/@53.3422409,-6.324334,17z/data=!4m2!4m1!3e0

    It is allowing short trips on Grattan Crescent.
    https://www.google.ie/maps/dir/53.3406451,-6.3202117/53.3410337,-6.3199005/@53.3408023,-6.3224485,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!4m1!3e0

    Thanks for clarifying that. I had assumed that Grattan Crescent was the issue because even when I drive onto Sarsfield Road anyway, when I get to where I would turn right onto the Crescent, Maps would insist that I travel onto Inchicore Road, onto Chapelizod Bypass, South Circular and onto Emmet Road towards Inchicore......quite a trek instead of the 250m or so of travelling along Grattan Crescent.


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