Me : let's watch some YouTube my favorite creators

[jcastroarnaud@mathstodon.xyz]

@arianvp I use the extension "YouTube Anti Translate" in Firefox to avoid such madness, and only use Youtube in the browser.

[alan@mindly.social]

@resuna @arianvp I have been known to enter latitude and longitude as my destination. Override that, algorithm!

Next year: "there's nothing at (lat,long), did you mean {location of nearest advertiser}?"

[resuna@ohai.social]

@alan @arianvp

It will do that. I deliberately set a landmark at the east most parking entrance of the building. It still navigated me to the southern entrance, because that is apparently where it believes there is an entrance to that block. And then its plotted route included internal directions inside the parking floor to the eastern entrance.

[artemist@social.mildlyfunctional.gay]

@monoxane @jj @amyisard @alper @arianvp @noodlemaz it depends on where, e.g. the us requires all agencies to publish static gtfs feeds, and many also publish free realtime feeds in gtfs-rt. for the nyc subway they're linked, no auth required, from https://api.mta.info/#/subwayRealTimeFeeds

[stevegis_ssg@mas.to]

@arianvp

Because I had most recently used it for crossing the city, google maps recently offerred me walking directions from Boston to Montreal. (I'm a fast walker but no.)

[artemist@social.mildlyfunctional.gay]

@monoxane @jj @amyisard @alper @arianvp @noodlemaz it's occasionally possible to scrape data for gtfs-rt, e.g. it's been done for amtrak, but for most sites it would take too long to scrape their realtime data to be useful. non-real-time data is easier, i've done it for china and am currently working on doing it for russia.

[eestileib@tech.lgbt]

@penpencilbrush @deathkitten @ainmosni @arianvp

I was trying to answer your question "why do we even need sidewalks?"

We need sidewalks if we want our human spaces to be navigable by non walking people.

[jobook@social.vivaldi.net]

@arianvp organic maps is also a thing

[bhhaskin@social.bitsofsimplicity.com]

@arianvp that's the neat part, you don't!

[syntaxxor@sk.girlthi.ng]

@arianvp@functional.cafe As far as I am aware, the only way to disable the auto-dubbing is if the creator of the video turns off approximately twelve settings in their creator dashboard. Which is fucking insane but that's where we're at.

[robin@daugherty.nl]

@arianvp StopTheMadness has the ability to disable translated titles on YouTube.

[samerfarha@mastodon.social]

@arianvp one time, in Brussels, I asked the front desk of the hotel if they could give me directions somewhere on a very nice day. “I can call a taxi for you…” “But it’s only 2 or 3 kilometers?” “Well, Americans don’t like walking!”

[dec23k@mastodon.ie]

@arianvp
Google Maps managed to lose a river in Ireland. The last section of one, anyway.
Go past the western edge of county Dublin until you find the Intel Ireland campus. Zoom in and follow the river (Rye Water) that runs behind it, until it hits an aqueduct.
In reality, the aqueduct carries a canal/rail line high above the river valley, allowing the Rye to eventually reach the Liffey. Google Maps shows the river flowing directly into the canal, on a neat 90 degree T junction, with no spills.

[dec23k@mastodon.ie]

@arianvp
Between the the aqueduct and the Rye/Liffey confluence, there's a river-shaped gap in Google Maps. An unexplained meandering green area of undeveloped land cuts through a residential area, where every housing estate has a river-themed place name. It's almost like someone is trying to drop hints that a river is very close by.

I tried fixing it in GMaps more than 10 years ago but it doesn't allow rivers to be edited.

Every other map seems to have the full Rye Water present and correct.

[kkarhan@jorts.horse]

@arianvp there's an extra #AddOn for #Firefox to disable #translations…