DrTorch
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WTH happened to google maps?
Why **** with something that works?
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02-21-2014 10:20 AM |
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Doctor Krieger
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RE: WTH happened to google maps?
Looks and feels a lot more like Bing! maps now....
Just download Google Earth, problem solved.
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02-21-2014 11:24 AM |
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AngryAphid
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RE: WTH happened to google maps?
Technology is wonderful, but my twenty five-year-old Rand McNally is more accurate.
Google maps should preface all generated routes like a meteorologist doing the weather…
70% chance this trip is correct with scattered destinations, later turning into partly arrival.
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02-21-2014 11:48 AM |
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Brookes Owl
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RE: WTH happened to google maps?
I've been using the new version for a while (didn't realize it hadn't been released widely). I like doing searches and seeing the results on the map instead of making the map smaller to fit a sidebar. What don't you like?
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02-21-2014 11:57 AM |
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DrTorch
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RE: WTH happened to google maps?
(02-21-2014 11:57 AM)Brookes Owl Wrote: I've been using the new version for a while (didn't realize it hadn't been released widely). I like doing searches and seeing the results on the map instead of making the map smaller to fit a sidebar. What don't you like?
I was fine w/ the sidebar. The directions tab is not obvious, nor are the directions.
Printing it out gave me several small (aka unreadable) maps. While there is logic to giving me multiple maps, it wasted paper w/ the sizing.
Basically, it lost it's intuitive interface, and I don't see values in the trade-offs.
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02-21-2014 12:53 PM |
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Brookes Owl
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RE: WTH happened to google maps?
(02-21-2014 12:53 PM)DrTorch Wrote: (02-21-2014 11:57 AM)Brookes Owl Wrote: I've been using the new version for a while (didn't realize it hadn't been released widely). I like doing searches and seeing the results on the map instead of making the map smaller to fit a sidebar. What don't you like?
I was fine w/ the sidebar. The directions tab is not obvious, nor are the directions.
Printing it out gave me several small (aka unreadable) maps. While there is logic to giving me multiple maps, it wasted paper w/ the sizing.
Basically, it lost it's intuitive interface, and I don't see values in the trade-offs.
Huh. I have the ability to print w/o the small maps. I wonder if we're looking at the same thing.
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02-21-2014 01:18 PM |
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DrTorch
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RE: WTH happened to google maps?
(02-21-2014 01:18 PM)Brookes Owl Wrote: (02-21-2014 12:53 PM)DrTorch Wrote: (02-21-2014 11:57 AM)Brookes Owl Wrote: I've been using the new version for a while (didn't realize it hadn't been released widely). I like doing searches and seeing the results on the map instead of making the map smaller to fit a sidebar. What don't you like?
I was fine w/ the sidebar. The directions tab is not obvious, nor are the directions.
Printing it out gave me several small (aka unreadable) maps. While there is logic to giving me multiple maps, it wasted paper w/ the sizing.
Basically, it lost it's intuitive interface, and I don't see values in the trade-offs.
Huh. I have the ability to print w/o the small maps. I wonder if we're looking at the same thing.
I probably can too. But I usually print directions w/ a map, so I selected the "print maps" option.
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02-21-2014 01:27 PM |
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QuestionSocratic
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RE: WTH happened to google maps?
I live in a 3 year old development and my street is on Google maps but not Mapquest. Seems most GPS units can't find the street either.
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02-21-2014 05:28 PM |
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Doctor Krieger
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RE: WTH happened to google maps?
(02-21-2014 11:48 AM)AngryAphid Wrote: Technology is wonderful, but my twenty five-year-old Rand McNally is more accurate.
Google maps should preface all generated routes like a meteorologist doing the weather…
70% chance this trip is correct with scattered destinations, later turning into partly arrival.
^ Too old to deal with technology imo.
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02-21-2014 05:46 PM |
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AngryAphid
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RE: WTH happened to google maps?
(02-21-2014 05:46 PM)Doctor Krieger Wrote: (02-21-2014 11:48 AM)AngryAphid Wrote: Technology is wonderful, but my twenty five-year-old Rand McNally is more accurate.
Google maps should preface all generated routes like a meteorologist doing the weather…
70% chance this trip is correct with scattered destinations, later turning into partly arrival.
^ Too old to deal with technology imo.
New millennium luddites don’t need a machine to tell us how to get from point A to point B.
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02-21-2014 07:38 PM |
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