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Or why's it so hard to get it to show a street name? It will show some, and it won't show others. If the one you want is in the latter category you've got a l

• choward 9y ago
  That and for some reason the scale only shows up while your zooming and for a couple seconds after. I want to see it all the time, damn it!
  • sampo 9y ago
    Go to settings and select "Show scale on map" / "Always".
    • choward 9y ago
      I swear I've looked for that setting before. Thanks!
• dmitriid 9y ago
  Because the are so many things you can show on a map. For fascinating essays on digital maps, this site: https://www.justinobeirne.com https://www.justinobeirne.com Related to your question: Google Maps’s Quiet Transformation (2017), esp. the second half of the article https://www.justinobeirne.com/a-year-of-google-maps-and-apple-maps https://www.justinobeirne.com/a-year-of-google-maps-and-appl... Surpising Changes to Google‘s Cartography (2016) https://www.justinobeirne.com/what-happened-to-google-maps https://www.justinobeirne.com/what-happened-to-google-maps Why are Google Maps’s city labels more readable than those of its competitors? (2010) https://www.justinobeirne.com/google-maps-label-readability https://www.justinobeirne.com/google-maps-label-readability
• gonzo41 9y ago
  I would invite you to do some web mapping, Level of Detail is the hardest problem, and it makes no one happy.