Gregory's Server@unlambda @whitequark @siderea I'd note the curved dotted line is *not* supposed to be your projected path. It's a :shrug: response that indicates you're on your own. No, it's not great in any measure. At least since we moved to WA three years ago, Google Maps has done that consistently for walking directions. It's been a PITA when we go into downtown Seattle and are going to park and walk because I have to fiddle with the options to get a walking path.
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 That's because the two different hops are on two different planes. The first hop is the pedestrian path inside the station, from the train platform to the surface, and then the second hop is on the surface from the headhouse of the station to the destination.  @siderea @rivetgeek @whitequark Ah, right. So they do have some notion of pedestrian routing; the question is why they don't continue to do the pedestrian routing after exiting the headhouse? It feels like this may be some kind of limiting of the route complexity; they've changed a constant somewhere where it will just give the "shrug" rather than trying to route you if the route goes over a certain complexity. |
@rivetgeek @whitequark @siderea But the confusing thing about it is that it's not just a single "shrug" dotted line; it's not a single segment, there's some kind of waypoint in between.
And it's a regression; Google Maps is capable of generating plausible walking directions for this route, and I believe that it used to do so for transit directions (though it's been a while since I've used transit directions, moved out of the city several years back), but it now seems to just give the "shrug."