According to Google, there was no MG Road at all. Visiting a friend who told me to come on MG Road and it was easy to find his place. Well, Google did not route me through it. Upon finally reaching the lobby and asking, I was told that I could have just come in on the main road, that it was one straight road and a wide one and why did I ever choose to come through the back-roads. When I managed to reach my hotel (a very prominent one in a big tech-park) it routed me to the back entrance on a small street. The city has ONLY small narrow tiny twisty back-roads where one car has to pull over with one set of wheels in the ditch and stop to let an oncoming vehicle pass. The city has no main/wide roads at all, none, zero, nada, zilch.Ģ. From Google, my impression of Ernakulam/Cochin is as follows:ġ. I experienced this last week when I went to Eranakulam/Cochin - a city I am totally unfamiliar with. They take all the small, tiny, narrow, back-roads and google, being very crowd-sourced, recommends majorly such roads for cars too.
I have a pet theory that (since google does not have a 'bike' option, only 'car') all bikers/two-wheelers spoil the navigation for car users. I used to trust google maps completely, but starting from the recent past I am not too happy with Google Maps.
