Google Maps lost its luster for me when they made it difficult to plot arbitrary routes and draw regions. Once upon a time, I would use google maps to plot hik

Google Maps lost its luster for me when they made it difficult to plot arbitrary routes and draw regions. Once upon a time, I would use google maps to plot hiking routes and draw regions to describe destination areas. Ie, "in this neighbourhood one can find good street-level shoppes". You can still do these things, but it's cumbersome and buried in the menus; whereas I recall this behaviour being first-class.