Mine actually started crashing when I opened it, so yeah. Luckily I live in a grid so it's not really hard to figure it out myself.

I'd like to recommend 'Magic Earth' to everyone, who wants a privacy respecting Maps alternative with trafic data. I used it on several >500km trips and it only misguided me once. It uses OSM maps and can navigate offline.

i tend to use waze more anyway

I don't know about getting worse but it definitely has trouble in my area with some businesses/ parking lots and how to get in to them

Yeah I feel like it's become bloated and slow tbh.

I haven't had any issues with Google maps recently, occasionally it'll try to take me on a more "fuel efficient" route. Recently my wife used apple maps and it took us to the wrong location, it kept trying to take us to Washington township when the address we entered was in Washington heights.

Absolutely. Not only does it show ads now, it's so busy that it's distracting and hard to keep track of your route.

It’s been broken on Fx Android for the last few weeks. I mostly use it to cross-reference information lacking on OpenStreetMap (or if I need to see photos). It sucks since locally, the only maps businesses bother with is Google.

Apparently everyone ITT has had 100 times more trouble with Google maps than I ever have had. Seriously entire categories of problems I've never experienced. Google maps has never tried to make me drive through a yard or field for example. Been using it since before it was a smartphone app.

All this talk about organic maps here on Lemmy does not feel organic at all.

Is there an ad campaign or something?