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Search is of course entirely useless, worse than useless, if you don't know in advance what you are looking for. Needless to say, search is not an adequate subs
by Bud 11y ago
Search is of course entirely useless, worse than useless, if you don't know in advance what you are looking for. Needless to say, search is not an adequate substitute for intelligent design and proper levels of detail on maps.
- ZeroGravitas 11y agoCan you explain your use case here? Normal Google search is great for finding the name of films you can't remember by typing vague descriptions of the plot. Maps has similar functionality, like "local coffeeshops" or "<business> in <city>".
- maxerickson 11y agoHow do you search for "an interesting area in Woonsocket". Like say you want to go to a park and then walk past some shops.
- eru 11y agohttps://www.google.com/maps/search/an+interesting+area+in+Woonsocket https://www.google.com/maps/search/an+interesting+area+in+Wo... Doesn't seem too bad.
- larrybud 11y agoMy technique: When I'm in an unfamiliar city, I search for restaurants and then looks for clusters. When you see a cluster of restaurants, this tends to be a downtown and is usually somewhere 'interesting'.
- crispyambulance 11y agoIf you don't actually know what you're even looking for, NO MAP whatsoever will be able to help you-- perhaps just take a walk? Of course, you DO have SOME idea of what you're looking for and that's where Google maps can help infinitely better than any paper map.
- lucb1e 11y ago> If you don't actually know what you're even looking for, NO MAP whatsoever will be able to help you. I use OpenStreetMap for this use case so I can only answer for them, and they seem to do a great job at it. If I am looking for the general shopping area, or office areas, or anything like that, I can zoom and pan through a city and find it very quickly. That Google doesn't show labels anymore makes it completely useless (and I've run into that a few times).