| How do you get google maps to select the quickest route? 12:52 - Jan 18 with 1361 views | Trequartista |
can't find the option. [Post edited 18 Jan 2020 12:52]
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| How do you get google maps to select the quickest route? on 13:06 - Jan 18 with 1340 views | Ryorry |
Options are usually automatically presented - shortest, quickest, avoiding M-ways etc.
Or click on each of the roads shown on map, whereupon they then become highlighted & show distance, time etc. |  |
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| How do you get google maps to select the quickest route? on 13:13 - Jan 18 with 1326 views | Trequartista |
| How do you get google maps to select the quickest route? on 13:06 - Jan 18 by Ryorry |
Options are usually automatically presented - shortest, quickest, avoiding M-ways etc.
Or click on each of the roads shown on map, whereupon they then become highlighted & show distance, time etc. |
It gives me directions, and then if I think this other way is quicker and drag it to my route, it then tells me my route is quicker. How do i make it select the quickest route in the first place? The only route options are avoid highways, tolls and ferries and i have them all unticked. | |
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| How do you get google maps to select the quickest route? on 13:20 - Jan 18 with 1310 views | uefacup81 |
| How do you get google maps to select the quickest route? on 13:13 - Jan 18 by Trequartista |
It gives me directions, and then if I think this other way is quicker and drag it to my route, it then tells me my route is quicker. How do i make it select the quickest route in the first place? The only route options are avoid highways, tolls and ferries and i have them all unticked. |
Are you doing a simple A-to-B route, or do you have intermediate destinations? |  |
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| How do you get google maps to select the quickest route? on 13:22 - Jan 18 with 1301 views | Trequartista |
| How do you get google maps to select the quickest route? on 13:20 - Jan 18 by uefacup81 |
Are you doing a simple A-to-B route, or do you have intermediate destinations? |
Just A to B. If I add "Via C" on my alternative route it's quicker! | |
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| How do you get google maps to select the quickest route? on 13:32 - Jan 18 with 1280 views | Guthrum |
| How do you get google maps to select the quickest route? on 13:13 - Jan 18 by Trequartista |
It gives me directions, and then if I think this other way is quicker and drag it to my route, it then tells me my route is quicker. How do i make it select the quickest route in the first place? The only route options are avoid highways, tolls and ferries and i have them all unticked. |
Try the Bing Maps one and compare the results. Sometimes the algorithms on these things can throw up odd results (not to mention sending you a long way round). |  |
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| How do you get google maps to select the quickest route? on 13:33 - Jan 18 with 1278 views | Ryorry |
| How do you get google maps to select the quickest route? on 13:13 - Jan 18 by Trequartista |
It gives me directions, and then if I think this other way is quicker and drag it to my route, it then tells me my route is quicker. How do i make it select the quickest route in the first place? The only route options are avoid highways, tolls and ferries and i have them all unticked. |
If you ask for A to B, a panel (mine's in blue) should pop up on left of your screen saying fastest route and giving an alternative. Have you inadvertantly disabled that maybe? (You get rid of it by clicking the arrow it has at top R). When I just keyed in postcode to L'pool, I got this -
ABC -
Liverpool
Add destination
OPTIONS
Send directions to your phone
2 h 14 min
98.1 miles
via M65
Fastest route, the usual traffic
(gives detailed directions)
Via A61, A59
2 h 15 min
96.4 miles
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| How do you get google maps to select the quickest route? on 13:38 - Jan 18 with 1271 views | Trequartista |
| How do you get google maps to select the quickest route? on 13:32 - Jan 18 by Guthrum |
Try the Bing Maps one and compare the results. Sometimes the algorithms on these things can throw up odd results (not to mention sending you a long way round). |
Yep Bing found the correct road - thank you.
If you are coming west out of Ardleigh, and heading for Portman Road (i'm not actually there, it's just an example), google maps gives an option for the Old Ipswich Road via Wick Lane of 27 mins or through Dedham of 28 mins.
But when you join the Old Ipswich Road heading towards Colchester it takes you all the way down to the A120 roundabout to join the A12. There is a road before that going under the A12. Add that road as a "Via" and suddenly it's 25 mins. [Post edited 18 Jan 2020 13:41]
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| How do you get google maps to select the quickest route? on 13:44 - Jan 18 with 1242 views | Ryorry |
| How do you get google maps to select the quickest route? on 13:38 - Jan 18 by Trequartista |
Yep Bing found the correct road - thank you.
If you are coming west out of Ardleigh, and heading for Portman Road (i'm not actually there, it's just an example), google maps gives an option for the Old Ipswich Road via Wick Lane of 27 mins or through Dedham of 28 mins.
But when you join the Old Ipswich Road heading towards Colchester it takes you all the way down to the A120 roundabout to join the A12. There is a road before that going under the A12. Add that road as a "Via" and suddenly it's 25 mins. [Post edited 18 Jan 2020 13:41]
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Google maps are notoriously innacurate in some local places. Our village hall is shown on their maps in completely the wrong place - half a mile away - which is a helluva headache when you've organised a theatre night there by a touring company, & not only some of the ticket-holders coming from a long way away, but also the theatre company themselves can't find it - *and* it's in a signal blackspot! | |
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| How do you get google maps to select the quickest route? on 13:47 - Jan 18 with 1233 views | Trequartista |
| How do you get google maps to select the quickest route? on 13:44 - Jan 18 by Ryorry |
Google maps are notoriously innacurate in some local places. Our village hall is shown on their maps in completely the wrong place - half a mile away - which is a helluva headache when you've organised a theatre night there by a touring company, & not only some of the ticket-holders coming from a long way away, but also the theatre company themselves can't find it - *and* it's in a signal blackspot! |
Yes, actual places are often a few hundred yards away, but i always thought it found the quickest route. I could understand if it thought the road wasn't there or was a private road, but it knows it's there because it recalculated when i forced it to use it. | |
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| How do you get google maps to select the quickest route? on 13:48 - Jan 18 with 1233 views | C_HealyIsAPleasure |
| How do you get google maps to select the quickest route? on 13:38 - Jan 18 by Trequartista |
Yep Bing found the correct road - thank you.
If you are coming west out of Ardleigh, and heading for Portman Road (i'm not actually there, it's just an example), google maps gives an option for the Old Ipswich Road via Wick Lane of 27 mins or through Dedham of 28 mins.
But when you join the Old Ipswich Road heading towards Colchester it takes you all the way down to the A120 roundabout to join the A12. There is a road before that going under the A12. Add that road as a "Via" and suddenly it's 25 mins. [Post edited 18 Jan 2020 13:41]
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I’m pretty sure that most maps functions and sat navs basically default to sending via main roads as often as possible. Presumably as they don’t know the actual roads and therefore to avoid sending people down roads which are completely inaccessible
For example even directing me across Ipswich, my sat nav will basically send me round the A14 (I live Ransomes end) to get to Whitehouse whereas knowing the various rat runs I can make it across quicker and shorter by going across town
I don’t think there’s a way to prevent this, other than manually adding in via points as you’ve done |  |
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| How do you get google maps to select the quickest route? on 13:54 - Jan 18 with 1219 views | Trequartista |
| How do you get google maps to select the quickest route? on 13:48 - Jan 18 by C_HealyIsAPleasure |
I’m pretty sure that most maps functions and sat navs basically default to sending via main roads as often as possible. Presumably as they don’t know the actual roads and therefore to avoid sending people down roads which are completely inaccessible
For example even directing me across Ipswich, my sat nav will basically send me round the A14 (I live Ransomes end) to get to Whitehouse whereas knowing the various rat runs I can make it across quicker and shorter by going across town
I don’t think there’s a way to prevent this, other than manually adding in via points as you’ve done |
Yes i think i've seen settings on satnavs to stick to main roads. If you de-select this it can often work the other way - it will send you down a narrow track thinking it is quicker because the speed limit is 60 but it is so windy (wine-dee) and narrow that it is a slower road.
I assumed google maps on a pc offered the quickest route though and i can't see a setting to force it. | |
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| How do you get google maps to select the quickest route? on 14:46 - Jan 18 with 1165 views | hampstead_blue |
Have you tried Waze? |  |
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| How do you get google maps to select the quickest route? on 15:44 - Jan 18 with 1130 views | itfcjim |
| How do you get google maps to select the quickest route? on 13:44 - Jan 18 by Ryorry |
Google maps are notoriously innacurate in some local places. Our village hall is shown on their maps in completely the wrong place - half a mile away - which is a helluva headache when you've organised a theatre night there by a touring company, & not only some of the ticket-holders coming from a long way away, but also the theatre company themselves can't find it - *and* it's in a signal blackspot! |
Where Google maps has an incorrect listing for somewhere you can correct it (though I think only on Desktop). I did this the other day for my mother in law's house as it kept sending me (and couriers etc) a mile further down the road. On reflection it was probably trying to do me a favour.
The correction took about a week and it's now correct on all devices |  | | |
| How do you get google maps to select the quickest route? on 17:44 - Jan 18 with 1072 views | Ryorry |
| How do you get google maps to select the quickest route? on 15:44 - Jan 18 by itfcjim |
Where Google maps has an incorrect listing for somewhere you can correct it (though I think only on Desktop). I did this the other day for my mother in law's house as it kept sending me (and couriers etc) a mile further down the road. On reflection it was probably trying to do me a favour.
The correction took about a week and it's now correct on all devices |
Oh right, would be interested to hear more about that. I'm on a mac tho, not sure what you mean by desktop? | |
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