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Google Now remembers parking location

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selmerdave

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So I was very excited to find out that Google Now remembers parking locations, I live in NYC and I park my car in a different spot at least once a day. But it's become frustrating in that it only remembers it occasionally despite having confirmed that I want it to do that.

When it remembers it it's highly accurate, but as an occasional surprise it's really quite useless. If it can do it at all why can't it do it consistently? Anyone know what it needs to trigger it?

Dave
 
selmerdave said:
So I was very excited to find out that Google Now remembers parking locations, I live in NYC and I park my car in a different spot at least once a day. But it's become frustrating in that it only remembers it occasionally despite having confirmed that I want it to do that.

When it remembers it it's highly accurate, but as an occasional surprise it's really quite useless. If it can do it at all why can't it do it consistently? Anyone know what it needs to trigger it?

Dave
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It uses your location and your phones sensors to determine when your moving (faster than walking) and when you stop it marks that as a possible place you've parked.

Its algorithm has to be really quite complex if you think about it. It has to monitor movement speed, location, it has to try to determine if you've just stopped because you're at a stop light or are in heavy traffic, or if you are actually parked.
 
Hmmmm be careful of the kidz wanting to play hide -n- seek under someone's car . if it picks up multiple your cool but if it erase and re do :eek::what:. I do the old fashion way just the letter and number .
 
Rxpert83 said:
It uses your location and your phones sensors to determine when your moving (faster than walking) and when you stop it marks that as a possible place you've parked.

Its algorithm has to be really quite complex if you think about it. It has to monitor movement speed, location, it has to try to determine if you've just stopped because you're at a stop light or are in heavy traffic, or if you are actually parked.
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Thanks, not looking to belittle its complexity but it seems that something like tracking movements more than 10mph and marking where they stop combined with the gyroscopic sensors detecting walking it should be feasible/reliable.

Dave
 
I'm guessing it'll get better and better as they get more data/feedback from users. :thumbup:

I have my google now set up so that it knows i mostly travel by public transit - so I haven't had an opportunity to check out the parking features yet.

How often would you say its right - 50%? 80%? 10%?
 
I think it is neat.. but.. the times I use GPS.. it has an error of up to 10 - 40 ft radius. and what about if you use a parking garage.. does it help you with levels??
 
I've found it very accurate, and as long as it gets me within a 1/2 block it's not so hard to find the car. It's not that useful in a garage though I did have one occasion where somehow it worked. Not with levels of course.
 
I use Where Is My ...??? (That's actually the name of the app). I've also written a Tasker task to save the current location, then set Maps to get me back to it. But both of those require that you tell the app "this is where I'm parked". If you forget, or if you think you'll be able to find the car without help, you're sunk.

G+ does it automatically. But in typical NYC traffic (in Manhattan, south of Central Park, anyway) you're probably "driving" at walking speed or slower half the time, so the algorithm needed to figure out whether you're walking or driving would probably be too complex to run in a phone. (How many times can you walk down Broadway, passing moving cars? NYC is a special case, in lots of ways.)
 
i never use Google Now mainly because it always gets everything wrong. it keeps thinking my home location (i manually set it into Maps too) is 15 minutes from my actual home, and gives me a 'time to home' when i am already there. it, in a recent update stopped using the GPS and now goes to a 'high accuracy' mode that uses the cellular/wifi radio which is anything but accurate. trying to disable anything except GPS location causes Google Now to stop working, only showing my weather card and a card telling me to 'enable high accuracy' so i disabled it and never use it again. it's so limited and the voice actions are very limited too, not able to turn on the wifi, or switch off Bluetooth by voice, or change music track/volume. S-Voice does all that perfectly fine.

Another bug was it thinking i live in London, UK despite me actually being in Kentucky.

Parking location is pretty useless as my job is blue collar country mechanic work. as such there are no assigned parking places that would be any good use of the feature.
 
nickdalzell said:
i never use Google Now mainly because it always gets everything wrong. it keeps thinking my home location (i manually set it into Maps too) is 15 minutes from my actual home, and gives me a 'time to home' when i am already there. it, in a recent update stopped using the GPS and now goes to a 'high accuracy' mode that uses the cellular/wifi radio which is anything but accurate. trying to disable anything except GPS location causes Google Now to stop working, only showing my weather card and a card telling me to 'enable high accuracy' so i disabled it and never use it again. it's so limited and the voice actions are very limited too, not able to turn on the wifi, or switch off Bluetooth by voice, or change music track/volume. S-Voice does all that perfectly fine.

Another bug was it thinking i live in London, UK despite me actually being in Kentucky.

Parking location is pretty useless as my job is blue collar country mechanic work. as such there are no assigned parking places that would be any good use of the feature.
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Regarding location modes in KitKat:

The high accuracy mode uses the GPS as well as networks

Battery saver uses network only

Device only uses just the gps
 
i want it to use the GPS. Google Now always shows 'max battery' but no option to change it. unfortunately it always places me at a cell tower a few miles away, going by what Maps thinks is my location when i am 15 miles southwest of where it thinks i am. it worked fine before that location update.

Google Now refuses to work in Device only. it shows only weather and a card asking to enable high accuracy which is anything but.

either way it was pointless, as most Google apps tend to be in my use. Google now always told me the obvious, often waiting until i was at work to tell me i was at work (gee, never thought i was there, despite the huge Tony's Carts and Parts sign...golllleeee!) and the extremely limited voice control...

as usual, Samsung is so far ahead of Google it leaves contrails.
 
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