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I was thinking the same thing of "who cares." I take the train and walk a lot more than I drive. I need street names, and GMaps have made them harder and harde
by djsumdog 9y ago
I was thinking the same thing of "who cares."
I take the train and walk a lot more than I drive. I need street names, and GMaps have made them harder and harder to see for years:
https://www.justinobeirne.com/what-happened-to-google-maps/ https://www.justinobeirne.com/what-happened-to-google-maps/
I gotta pinch zoom all the way in, jiggle the map around a bunch, just to see street names. It's annoying as fuck since it's the most important thing on the map when walking in a city to orientate yourself (because we all know those digital compasses are garbage).
I should really just carry a magnetic compass on my key chain again.
I really miss the classic maps interface. More streets, more relevant detail and much much faster. Classic maps that used the whole screen without the white area on the left, and the vector rendering tech would have been way better than their crappy web interface now.
- adrianN 9y agoOr buy a proper hiking GPS. Garmin makes great products. They also run off two AA batteries for like a week.
- saagarjha 9y ago> I was thinking the same thing of "who cares." > I take the train and walk a lot more than I drive. Intersting, I have the opposite opinion precisely because I walk to most places. Building outlines give you a good idea of where you can walk–often taking the Manhattan path through a city is suboptimal, and you can cut through blocks based on what's in them. Building outlines let you know if there are alleyways that you can go through.