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Brian Campbell

@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."

3 Oct 2023 at 22:12 | Wall-to-wall | Open on hachyderm.io
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Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis replied to Brian

@unlambda

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.

@rivetgeek @whitequark

3 Oct 2023 at 22:52 | Open on universeodon.com
Brian Campbell replied to Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis

@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.

3 Oct 2023 at 23:01 | Open on hachyderm.io
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