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Google introduces Labs for Google Maps
- dirtbox 17y agoNo all that ground breaking in itself, but really hammering home the feeling that Google is pulling out the stops this year. What next, I wonder.
- ntoshev 17y agoI'd like to have a default zoom depending on viewport center - it should be larger in cities than in the field. Should be relatively easy to interpolate if they log (lat, lon, zoom) tuples of how humans use the map.
- ableal 17y agoLet me copy their lifejacket here ;-) If such a [Labs] feature breaks, and you're having trouble loading Maps, use this escape hatch: http://maps.google.com/maps?ftr=0 http://maps.google.com/maps?ftr=0. The latitude/longitude (LatLng, shades of "creat" ;-) tooltip and marker features are neat, but: - the tooltip is annoying - possibly only show after a >1s delay, or turn on with context, like putting the marker - checking marker vs. tooltip, the tooltip seems to present the LatLng at the wrist of the hand cursor, not a finger ? - cannot copy LatLng text/value from marker ... (HN, now doing feedback form duty ...) P.S. while I'm at it: general Google search, and Maps search itself, doesn't seem too savvy about LatLng strings taken from random web sources. A little bit of elbow grease there could go a long way ...