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1. Single tap on the map (but not on Points Of Interest) toggles UI visibility. 2. That one is the most annoying thing for me. It usually happens if you search
by hawski 10y ago
1. Single tap on the map (but not on Points Of Interest) toggles UI visibility.
2. That one is the most annoying thing for me. It usually happens if you search for something that it can't find in visible area, but it looks random. Google Search taught me that you can write a bit sloppy and it still is able to find it. Than in Google Maps it can lead to showing you some cryptic place in another country.
Another annoying thing for me is a language problem. I am living now in Germany, but I am from Poland. You can't do category search in Polish, because it will show you results in Poland. But at the same time if you look on details for the German place you will see category in Polish. So you may not know what Google expects.
Also when you click on category icon from search list (those red icons) it will search in language of the country you're in, but you have to click on a name in your language.
But multiple language support suck mostly everywhere... Chrome offers site translation (some of the time). I prefer translations to English, because they are better than translations to Polish. I also don't want to translate it always, because it is not always needed (and flicker is annoying) or not good enough.
To translate a site to English I have to do this every time (my UI is in Polish, but I will write all in English, but translation is mine):
1. Tap on underlined "Polish" in sentence "Translate to Polish"
2. Tap "Polish" in "Translation language" menu
3. Scroll to the top to find "English"
4. Tap "English"
5. Tap "Ready"
6. Tap "Translate"
7. Ignore annoying confirmation by scrolling or tapping "Ready"
At least translation from context menu is sensible now. You can select text by long tapping and tap translate and it remembers what language you selected earlier and has the most recent used languages at the top of the language list.