{"id":5618,"date":"2014-06-23T09:54:09","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T16:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/?p=5618"},"modified":"2014-06-23T10:02:33","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T17:02:33","slug":"google-maps-now-showing-travel-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/2014\/06\/google-maps-now-showing-travel-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps Now Showing Travel Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>in a continuing effort to show that its mining of data is actually useful for the end consumer, i noticed some things today on the new version of <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\">Google Maps<\/a>. for the longest time i had it set so that i always defaulted to the old Maps interface because i couldn&#8217;t figure out how to use the new one, but a reset of my browser settings (it was acting up) reverted me to the new Maps.<\/p>\n<p>imagine my surprise when i saw reservation dates and my hotel shown relatively prominently on the map! and upcoming flights at airports!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/files\/2014\/06\/Untitled2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5625\" src=\"http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/files\/2014\/06\/Untitled2.png\" alt=\"Untitled\" width=\"942\" height=\"668\" srcset=\"http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/\/sites\/48\/2014\/06\/Untitled2.png 942w, http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/\/sites\/48\/2014\/06\/Untitled2-300x212.png 300w, http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/\/sites\/48\/2014\/06\/Untitled2-400x283.png 400w, http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/\/sites\/48\/2014\/06\/Untitled2-200x141.png 200w, http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/\/sites\/48\/2014\/06\/Untitled2-150x106.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 942px) 100vw, 942px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>so not only do i have <a href=\"http:\/\/tripit.com\">TripIt<\/a> set to pull my travel plans from Gmail to automatically set up itineraries, but it looks like Google does it automatically as well. at least the former i opted into, the latter was completely unexpected.<\/p>\n<p>that can lead to problems, though:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/files\/2014\/06\/map12.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5622\" src=\"http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/files\/2014\/06\/map12.png\" alt=\"map1\" width=\"663\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/\/sites\/48\/2014\/06\/map12.png 663w, http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/\/sites\/48\/2014\/06\/map12-300x203.png 300w, http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/\/sites\/48\/2014\/06\/map12-400x271.png 400w, http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/\/sites\/48\/2014\/06\/map12-200x135.png 200w, http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/\/sites\/48\/2014\/06\/map12-150x101.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 663px) 100vw, 663px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>so far so good &#8212; it&#8217;s showing my next flight.\u00a0but a list of cards appears on the left when you click on the airport, a list that&#8217;s just a plain ol&#8217; hot mess.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5621\" style=\"width: 417px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/files\/2014\/06\/map2.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5621\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-5621 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/files\/2014\/06\/map2.png\" alt=\"map2\" width=\"407\" height=\"848\" srcset=\"http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/\/sites\/48\/2014\/06\/map2.png 407w, http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/\/sites\/48\/2014\/06\/map2-400x833.png 400w, http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/\/sites\/48\/2014\/06\/map2-200x416.png 200w, http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/\/sites\/48\/2014\/06\/map2-150x312.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 407px) 100vw, 407px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5621\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In case it&#8217;s not clear, I&#8217;m a Star Alliance flyer \ud83d\ude09 (for now)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>so many of these flights are <strong>no longer valid<\/strong> due to changes or cancellations, but without deleting emails, i guess Google thinks they&#8217;re still correct. and i&#8217;m not quite sure why it chose to display a flight in November (that i&#8217;m no longer on, but again, it doesn&#8217;t know that) as the first flight in the list, when it knows i have one coming up quite a bit sooner.<\/p>\n<p>another thing is that its algorithm for determining which reservations to show based on location needs some improvement. if i search for Barcelona, say, it shows my accommodation information, but it didn&#8217;t when i searched for Ibiza above (nor when i searched for\u00a0Sant Antoni de Portmany, the actual town where my hotel is located, even though it knows it&#8217;s in that town).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/files\/2014\/06\/map3.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5623\" src=\"http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/files\/2014\/06\/map3.png\" alt=\"map3\" width=\"489\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/\/sites\/48\/2014\/06\/map3.png 489w, http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/\/sites\/48\/2014\/06\/map3-272x300.png 272w, http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/\/sites\/48\/2014\/06\/map3-400x440.png 400w, http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/\/sites\/48\/2014\/06\/map3-200x220.png 200w, http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/\/sites\/48\/2014\/06\/map3-150x165.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 489px) 100vw, 489px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>welp, as i&#8217;ve always said, &#8220;i, for one, welcome our new supercomputer overlords&#8221;. i&#8217;m not entirely convinced that adding information to points of interest (on the map itself) is that useful since they&#8217;re small and not very noticeable, but i do like the cards that appear on the left displaying reservation information, which i think will definitely go a long way in helping me plan (and making sure my plans are correct!). hopefully 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