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I think this may be a 'bug': as you zoom into the US west coast, SAN is visible before LAX. But LAX serves much more people every day, so a random person is muc
by pinkmuffinere 7mo ago
I think this may be a 'bug': as you zoom into the US west coast, SAN is visible before LAX. But LAX serves much more people every day, so a random person is much more likely to care about LAX. Intuitively, it seems to me that LAX should show up first. That could be intentional, but I can't think of a good reason why that choice would be made.
- phinnaeus 7mo agoSimilar in Australia, BNE shows up before SYD. Edit: actually it's even weirder. Here's the zoom levels I see, from zoomed out, to zoomed in: - BNE, MEL - BNE, SYD, MEL - BNE, CBR, MEL (??) - BNE, SYD, CBR, MEL
- chupchap 7mo agoHaha I came in to write the exact same thing. Such a weird choice
- friendzis 7mo agoThis screams vibe-coded slop. Think about it, if you were to implement zoom based detail level, you would have to try hard to introduce a bug on line 3, yet it happens to hit prod. Yet, this thread is full of people defending this pre-alpha quality thing.
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- jerlam 7mo agoI think the map is biased towards airports with the most disruptions, not the largest.
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- mh- 7mo agoGoogle Maps has had this bug with street names not revealing based on any rational priority at varying zoom levels.. for like a decade. I'm going to start using this as an interview question for people to solve.
- 16bytes 7mo agoIf you think this is an easy problem to solve, here's an old article that discusses some of the challenges in doing so: https://medium.com/google-design/google-maps-cb0326d165f5 https://medium.com/google-design/google-maps-cb0326d165f5
- mh- 7mo agoI don't think it's an easy problem to solve at all, that's why I quipped about making it an interview problem. :) In an interview, I'm just interested in hearing people talk through trying to solve difficult problems. Getting to a solution is incidental. And it's way more fun when I don't know of a go-to solution, either.
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- friendzis 7mo agoNot only that, but airports blink in-and-out of existence as you zoom or pan the map around. It can't even decide if it wants to show a certain airport or not.