mesiah

March 07, 2011 at 5:37pm

Sometimes I wonder about googles routing algorithms. For whatever reason it seems to take some screwy routes sometimes, especially when traveling cross country. On our last trip from ohio to connecticut the route there was somewhat standard, although not the usual route we take. But the route back took us down near new york city, had us jumping from one highway to another and crossing the george washington bridge. When it first came back with that route I thought I entered something wrong so I double checked. Then I thought "what the hell, lets take it just for something different." It added nearly 2 hours to the regular trip.

I don't know if the google engineers are getting crafty with their routing algorithms, but they need to tone it down some or at least make that the second option. Its easy enough to ask for an alternative route, but a lot of times the alternative routes aren't a whole lot different.