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Annoying Google Play Services notification

Hadron

Spacecorp test pilot
For the last couple of months whenever I've tried to use Maps for navigation it's constantly pinged me with a notification telling me that for it to work properly I need to give Google Play Services some extra permissions. This will repeat every minute or so as long as navigation is active (whether you swipe it away or leave it there). Of course navigation works fine, they just want me to enable more data access for it which isn't needed for my uses. In my case this was microphone access, which I don't need as I don't use voice control, and body sensors, which I cannot see the relevance of if I'm not using Google Fit (and should be obviously irrelevant if you are asking for driving instructions, but not necessary even for walking).

Anyway, I got fed up enough to find out exactly what needs to be disabled to shut this up: select the notifications controls for Maps (android 8 and 9 certainly, never used 7 so don't know there), and right at the bottom under "Other" there's a tick box for "Google Play services availability". Untick that and you won't be bothered by nagging messages about permissions that aren't needed in the first place. ;)
 
Now, if only we could get Google Maps to give CORRECT information...

I gave up on Google Maps.

Utterly worthless to me.

I actually find it more rewarding to properly refold a real paper map than to use Google Maps.
 
Oh, it's mostly accurate, unless you are looking for the specific business it isn't listing despite having been there for longer than Google, the pub that it's decided to relocate to about a km away from its real position despite correctly knowing where it was a few months earlier, or a hotel that it's decided is sited in the middle of a major traffic junction about 200m from where it really is (all first-hand examples).

I never rely on a single source anyway, and tend to use OSM-based apps as my primary, Google as a backup. No individual source is perfect: I often find open streetmaps have useful details that are lacking in Google, but it does depend on where you are and is sometimes the other way round.
 
Google Maps (better name would be Craps) has been woefully wrong every time that I ever used it.

I am hard pressed to think of any app that will actually install on my devices that could be more worthless.

At least it used to be interesting.
Now the satellite views have been made blurry compared to what they used to be, and all the unwanted junk fills the screen.

The last time we tried using that crap while on the road, we actually wound up just stopping and buying a real paper map.

After plotting our course with real roads and actual destinations, I immediately disabled Google Craps.

Calling it Craps is actually too good for it, as I believe that the odds in the dice game are better than the odds of Google Maps to be of any use.
 
Now, if only we could get Google Maps to give CORRECT information...

I gave up on Google Maps.

Utterly worthless to me.

I actually find it more rewarding to properly refold a real paper map than to use Google Maps.

Indeed

Like Google showing roads that don't exist and a "General Beer City" in our school running track and football pitch.
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