Comment on Google Maps Now Uses AI to Find Where People Are Having Fun
Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months agoIt obviously shouldn’t be asking you while you’re driving, but Google Maps does use the camera to improve your location. It scans things like buildings and landmarks, and gets your position based on where you are in relation to them. It’s surprisingly accurate.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
This might work in famous places but I can’t imagine pictures of endless crop fields where I live would help google with shit. And how exactly is GPS less accurate than pictures of buildings anyway? GPS works on your phone even without internet access, so I don’t think google has our best interests at heart here.
Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
I live in a small village in the UK, and it works here. GPS doesn’t always get a great signal, so this supplements it.