I found it odd during Turn By Turn nav that google told me to "Take a right after the Taco Bell."
Navigating by landmark is natural for humans, and it's cool to see Google moving to this approach.
My wife and I traveled to roughly the same area, and solely based on that one instruction we were able to go by memory, because of this new approach to nav that Google Maps is taking.
Google is well positioned to support it--between their business information + data from Android devices, detecting the closed places wouldn't be intractable.
Navigating by landmark is natural for humans, and it's cool to see Google moving to this approach.
My wife and I traveled to roughly the same area, and solely based on that one instruction we were able to go by memory, because of this new approach to nav that Google Maps is taking.