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Hey again! Late night update: Today has been all about refinement. We started the day by announcing we've added a lot of new address data to our own database. Throughout today we've been working on cleaning that data against our other sources to remove duplicates.

Some of the search/duplicates data fixes are live and some of them require us to do a full rebuild which is scheduled to happen once a week (unless we push it faster but then everything goes down for a while).

Beyond that, we put a bunch of work into fixing how the system reroutes people when users go off the chosen route. It had be frustratingly sticky and REALLY wanted you to go what it thought was the fastest way.

Reroutes were also not acknowledging when people were driving and just assumed a stagnant starting point rather than the reality that when it reroutes you've usually missed an exit or chosen to pass it and won't be doing a U turn in the middle of the road.

We were very happy with the improvements to the quality of voice navigation prompts, however, they were extremely taxing to generate. Every direction was completely unique which means the whole phrase "Turn right in 400m at Canada Road" was made and could only ever be used for that specific prompt