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I feel like if this gains visibility the Google Project Manager will catch wind and will quickly correct both of these regressions.
by cptskippy 4y ago
I feel like if this gains visibility the Google Project Manager will catch wind and will quickly correct both of these regressions.
- orangepurple 4y agoI know I am contemplating deleting this post. This method is saving my behind traveling in foreign countries without a data SIM and I wanted to help others in a similar situation. Maybe HN mods can blacklist IPs from Google for this post (lol).
- cptskippy 4y agoI really miss the Android Marshmallow era version of Google Maps before the Material Design conquest. It was such a useful map for navigation. We used it with offline maps on a tablet to travel all over Scotland. When they redesigned it really hit home that you were the product and not the consumer of Google Maps. They removed all the useful metadata about routes like the elevation timeline. Configurable POIs were replaced with highest bidder adverts. I had to submit feedback for half a year complaining before they finally added back the Scale, and even then it was an off by default setting. At least for me, Google Maps is only useful if I know my destination and it's no longer a meaningful discovery tool for what's around me.
- justsomehnguy 4y agoSometimes a hack should be exposed so a better alternatives could emerge. Sometimes they do. Most of the time the hack stops working. Circle of hacks, I suppose.