{"id":4843,"date":"2023-05-21T19:39:21","date_gmt":"2023-05-21T23:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/?p=4843"},"modified":"2023-05-21T19:51:32","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T23:51:32","slug":"google-maps-does-not-say-street-names-take-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/?p=4843","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps does not say street names (take 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During my recent trip abroad, Google Maps yet again was refusing to say street names, so it would say &#8220;take the interchange on the right&#8221; instead of &#8220;take exit 55 towards Footown&#8221;. It <a href=\"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/?p=2398\">had happened before<\/a>, but this time the reason was different. Google maps would randomly &#8220;forget&#8221; about street names, and then remember them again, sometimes in the middle of the same trip. Like, it would start with &#8220;turn left&#8221;, &#8220;turn right&#8221;, and then suddenly switch to &#8220;to left to the ABC street&#8221;, without me changing anything in the phone.<\/p>\n<p>I am still not sure what it was: the quality of the network, some other environmental parameter, or just a random bug. No amount of fiddling with the text-to-speech settings would make a difference. I took the phone back to the US, and the problem went away just as mysteriously as it appeared.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, I googled the issue to death, but did not find a solution. It would be nice if Google Maps somehow indicated that it switches to the &#8220;no names&#8221; mode and why it is so, but alas.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4849\" src=\"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/road_sign.jpg\" alt=\"Road sign\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During my recent trip abroad, Google Maps yet again was refusing to say street names, so it would say &#8220;take the interchange on the right&#8221; instead of &#8220;take exit 55 <a href=\"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/?p=4843\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-ikriv","post-4843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4843"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4850,"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4843\/revisions\/4850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}