Google's Maps Go Indoors With New Mobile Feature

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Seriously guys? Is this where we are heading? I can see using Google Maps to find the mall but using it inside the mall? C'mon.

The indoor directions include two retailers known for their labyrinth stores , Home Depot and Ikea. Macy's and Bloomingdales also have shared the floor plans of a few of their biggest stores. The Mall of America in Minnesota and 18 U.S. airports also are included in Google's initial index of indoor directions.
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The article refers to IKEA as a labyrinth. The two I've been in you can only go one direction. Hard to get lost in IKEA.
 
The only time I've been to Ikea, I got lost, and it was the "one way out" thing that did it. In a normal store you can just be like "I'll just go out the way I came in," but at Ikea it's like they make you follow this maze to get to the exit. I literally spent 10 minutes looking around at furniture, and another 15 minutes trying to figure out how to leave.

Not that Google Maps would help me with that anyway, because I'm not going to look up a map for the store I'm going to before I leave the house.
 
I never go into the damn mall. I need more direction in the mall than I do generally when driving a thousand miles.
 
Seems kinda pointless considering that most phones wont be able to get a GPS signal inside the building anyway...
 
Hell...Google maps still has yet to map my town w/ streetview or even correctly...town around here of 400 are mapped...but this one..on 2 major highways, 2500 people...no streetview and totally incorrect locations on most businesses. Screw the malls.
 
... What's the problem here? It's a cool feature. Airport maps? Hell yeah. Plus being able to find a specific store in the mall without wandering around looking for a kiosk is nice, too. Don't like it? I'm pretty sure you don't have to use it.
 
They make these things call Maps at mall entrances that you look at then walk to the desired store. People have been doing it for years. Crazy right ?:eek: Disconnect a lil people.
 
The Ikea I've been to is one direction only as well. You just have to keep walking until the exit at the end even if the item you were looking for is near the entrance.
 
See this is a "slippery slope"! Now that google are inside buildings, it's only so long before you wake up with some google employees in your bedroom taking photos of yor house! :eek:

Blyss+ said:
Hell...Google maps still has yet to map my town w/ streetview or even correctly...town around here of 400 are mapped...but this one..on 2 major highways, 2500 people...no streetview and totally incorrect locations on most businesses. Screw the malls.
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Is your town called silent hill?
 
People still go to the mall? *looks at Amazon Prime*

So besides people being too dependent upon technology, I feel as though brick & mortar should have more incentive for me to change out of my pajamas -- there are some very fundamental things. If I could search stores within x distance of me and see if they had item in stock and go there and ask to demo said product without the hassle of having them try to sell me something I don't need or being completely and utterly inept... nah, I don't see it happening.
 
Haha the first time I went to Ikea with some bros we ended up going in the wrong way and went through the whole store backwards :D
 
rcashier said:
They make these things call Maps at mall entrances that you look at then walk to the desired store. People have been doing it for years. Crazy right ?:eek: Disconnect a lil people.
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Read my mind!
People need to at least learn the basics if they're to survive when the system fails. Just imagine what'd happen to all the people who can't function without aid from their smart device if an EMP were to go off, or a full blown system failure were to happen for another reason. If you can't navigate the mall w/o it, then the world outside will surely be a horrifying place for you.
 
ikeas have shortcuts to the exit, but they are purposely not advertised as much. just follow the arrows if you get lost... stupid simple IMO

I'd like to walk around some malls... for nostalgia reasons. Also good if I have to plan a trip out there as I hate wandering around stupid malls. Also, I suffer from social anxiety so tend to just shop online. Home Depot and grocery stores I enjoy though. Best Buy? Ugh, I hate those stores with a passion, annoying fucks asking me if I need help. "GO THE FUCK AWAY MORONS!!!!" :)
 
I hope they map Philly's airport. I f'n hate that place. 7 terminals and not one looks like the other. I used to always fly US Air so I always flew out of terminal B. Jut this one time I had to fly Delta and had to fly out of terminal D.

Well im following signs to ticketing... go here... go here. go here.... I finally get to a sign thats pointing down and the only thing thats there is an escalator going UP!!!

RAGE!!!!!!!!!!
 
Honestly, I am on auto-pilot / zombie shuffle mode when I got to the mall. I just wander around aimlessly, I'll eventually find what I'm looking for...or not. OH LOOK, the food court! :)
 
rcashier said:
They make these things call Maps at mall entrances that you look at then walk to the desired store. People have been doing it for years. Crazy right ?:eek: Disconnect a lil people.
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I guess you can take a picture or two of it, some malls are 3 levels and you might want to go to multiple stores.

I wonder if you can google map multiple stores in the mall and have it give you an optimum route?
 
I don't see this as a bad thing. Airports and Malls can get pretty crazy.
 
I would love to be able to open Google Maps and find out how to get to the airport gate for my connecting flight before I even get off the first plane.
 
rcashier said:
They make these things call Maps at mall entrances that you look at then walk to the desired store. People have been doing it for years. Crazy right ?:eek: Disconnect a lil people.
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Yeah, except in some dumbass malls they're not in every entrance, and you seriously need to hunt for them.

Smarmy answers aside, I'd rather have one in my pocket. You can rock it oldschool if you insist.
 
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