- The offline experience is garbage. Default behavior should cache large routes offline immediately when I’m on WiFi.
- partial connectivity experience is garbage. Stalled map loads, freezes, etc while driving through a 1x cell service area, even if map was pre-downloaded.
- ads for places I don’t care about.
- unable to automatically show places I do care about.
- searching for exits sucks
- searching for rest areas sucks
- measuring distances requires interrupting the navigation
- no way to view current speed, elevation
- filtering for restaurants with drive throughs very frequently ignores the “with drive through” part of the query.
- gas prices come and go on gas station display. No way to filter on price.
- why in the world can’t we filter based on restroom cleanliness?
- trailer towing friendly parking lots?
- enter max range between drives, give me fuel stops optimizing for gas cost or cadence of stops. Mapquest did this in the early 2000s FFS and you printed out the result.
- overlay recent breadcrumb history on map without it getting blown away any time navigation is interrupted.
- search map without interrupting navigation in a way that doesn’t assume something should be added as a waypoint. (Sometimes people use phones for more than one thing at once on a 12 hour road trip.)
The list goes on and on. There are like 4 use-cases that work with google maps and they are all for basic users and nothing else.