Google Maps navigation (lane indicators) in Malaysia is rubbish, especially at roads with an entry and immediately followed by an exit. The lane indicator doesn’t indicate clearly, resulting in unnecessary lane cutting
Consider merging into a road from a slip road, this is pretty straightforward
Consider the same situation but now there is an exit to the road immediately after merging in. Note that this entry sometimes is the same lane as the immediate exit. Sometimes the lane indicator shows all lanes in the section, and sometimes it only shows a simple merge. This creates confusion
Consider the same road from above but now we need to take the exit instead of merging into the road. Same as the second case, the lane indicator inconsistently show all the lanes
IMO it is best to always show all lanes and indicate the lanes to take, is this the standard design for navigation? How can i help edit these indicators?
Welcome to Connect, @dondon287 And what a thoughtful first post — you’ve clearly thought hard about this.
You’ve spotted something real. The short answer is that lane guidance (those lane arrows) isn’t something we can edit directly the way we add or fix a road — Google generates it automatically, increasingly with AI, on top of the underlying road data. So there’s no “edit lane indicator” button, which is why it can feel inconsistent at entry/exit points like the ones you describe.
But there are still ways to help:
• In the app, you can use “Suggest an edit” → report a routing/navigation problem when the lane guidance is wrong at a specific spot. These reports do feed back to Google.
• Even more impactful: making sure the underlying road geometry is correct — how the slip road connects, where the merge and exit actually split, one-way directions, etc. Lane guidance is built on that foundation, so accurate road data is the best indirect way to improve it.
You’re not alone on this either — there’s an ongoing thread about poor lane guidance in the UK with similar frustrations, so it’s a genuinely recognized issue.
Greetings from Tokyo — and great to have someone in Malaysia caring about this level of detail
And what a thoughtful first post — you’ve clearly thought hard about this.
— and great to have someone in Malaysia caring about this level of detail 