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User reports Google Maps proposed a sponsored detour to a trip
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this post was submitted on 30 Dec 2023
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last time I tried to use it on a 700km trip it would not even find the path, it would just calculate seemingly forever.
You need to download the maps in order to make it work. The default maps it comes with kinda suck. It's not intuitive but I was able to go from California to Wyoming that way.
I did have all the maps downloaded. I split the trip into three ~250 km sections and it routed each one separately just fine.
Yeah I also downloaded the U.S map and was pretty good navigating around Utah and Nevada. They had information on the locations and everything. It didn't have any traffic information like Google maps but it works perfectly fine.