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> hostile and annoying If someone from Google Maps or LinkedIn team is here, please, when I take a screenshot it's because I want to a screenshot, not share th
by fer 2mo ago
> hostile and annoying
If someone from Google Maps or LinkedIn team is here, please, when I take a screenshot it's because I want to a screenshot, not share the friggin location/post.
Not sure who got the idea that it was useful, it isn't.
- mikepurvis 2mo agoI would happily use the Google Maps "share" feature, but I've yet to encounter any but the simplest of scenarios where it actually preserves the entire context of what I'm trying to share: the viewport, the start and destination, stops along the way, route choice, the time of day, all of it. If I'm sending a screenshot it's because I want to send exactly what I see on my screen and not have my recipient's gmaps instance happily recompute a route it thinks is better or leave out the routing information I included, or switch from biking to driving directions, or whatever else.
- Waterluvian 2mo agoIt's of course about lock-in. In the early Web-GIS era there were a few competing but popular notation standards for sharing lat/lon/zoom/<sometimes more> that was meant to be human readable and compatible with any WMS or similar. Ah... to imagine a world where you could just share a coordinate string and people could open it in whatever map app/page they wanted. Geo URI is probably the closest we have today but I don't think much of anything outside the OS Geo community accepts it.
- mikepurvis 2mo agoI think that's actually a separate issue. What I specifically want from a Google Maps share URL is for it to be something I can send over text that will reproduce for my recipient exactly what I see. A lat/lon/zoom/start?/dest? is kind of what a Google Maps share currently is, but it's neither an interoperable standard nor a reliable capture of the current state, so really the worst of both worlds. (Also, hi AB! Nice to see you on here)
- Waterluvian 2mo agoHi! I think I’m on the same page (give or take a zoom level) now. That is hard to do between separate geodatabases (hence CRS, placenames, geocoding, etc.) but Google isn’t even doing it within their own. And the only way I can obtain a link is to first place a pin, which wants to snap to nearby features. If I try to link a nice trail near my home it snaps to the quarry instead, making me look like a maniac with a terrible idea of what a “quiet walk” looks like.
- zrobotics 2mo agoThe other reason someone might want a screenshot specifically isn't to share a location, but to share a route. For instance, I might want to text a friend a screenshot of my driving route. Maps can sometimes route weirdly, so this is definitely a use-case I've needed before.
- mikepurvis 2mo agoI've noticed similar things with off-road biking as well. Hydrocut generally does an okay job of snapping to the trails there since Google knows about them, but I was at Rondeau this weekend, and Google kept insisting I was on the adjacent Lakeshore Rd rather than the Harrison trail [1] that I was actually on. And this had real consequences because my youngest and I had become separated from the rest of our group and were trying to use a "share my location" through Signal, but the Android system-supplied location used was the one that had been unhelpfully snapped to the road. [1]: https://www.alltrails.com/trail/canada/ontario/harrison-trail https://www.alltrails.com/trail/canada/ontario/harrison-trai...
- thaumasiotes 2mo agoGoogle does provide an interoperable standard for communicating lat/lng pairs via text: https://maps.google.com/pluscodes/ https://maps.google.com/pluscodes/ I believe it was their response to what3words. It's not as good at the "communicating by text" use case as what3words.
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- KennyBlanken 2mo agoI have a seething hatred for google maps links people send on mobile because Google no longer shows you the map in your mobile browser. It has for at least a year or twoo required Google Maps be installed to show you what the person linked to.
- Razengan 2mo agoBlame Apple for even allowing apps to be aware of the user taking a screenshot. Just like their iCloud Keychain API that lets apps secretly track users across app reinstalls and device resets.
- bethekidyouwant 2mo agoGetting your account back on reinstall is good
- Razengan 2mo agoI can fucking type my username and password, thank you. And I prefer to see and choose the data an app stores on my fucking ICLOUD ACCOUNT. And fucking DELETE it when I want. There's no way to do that from an iOS device.
- doc_ick 2mo ago.
- Dylan16807 2mo agoI thought your other comments about writing your own were sarcasm about how that's such a terrible situation if that's the kind of thing it would take. But this one looks like you actually mean it? Yikes.
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- Razengan 2mo agoSomeone should follow you around saying that to you every time you complain about anything
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- umeshunni 2mo agoToday I noticed that Amazon Pharmacy decided to blank out my prescription info that I was screenshotting to send to my doctor. WTF.
- wolvoleo 2mo agoAnd if you take a screenshot of a product in the Amazon app it hijacks that and copies a link instead.
- AshamedCaptain 2mo agoFrom the same lunacy that forces me to write my 30-something character Wi-Fi password on a "secure password field" that only shows me the last character, almost ensuring that I will make an unlimited number of typos and spend way too much time for something that should only take 30 seconds. It's not clear who it is protecting against, it does not seem to be effective at protecting against anything at all, it is actively annoying to the user, and has no way to disable. Perfect example of the usual "security theater" feature.
- Barbing 2mo agoSuper secure!!1one Unsecure: open Shortcuts, tap Gallery, search “Adjust Clipboard”. Add to Action Button folder and run from Action Button. - Or add “Dismiss Siri and Continue” action after “Get Clipboard” so you can say “Siri, Adjust Clipboard”. Type in the still-unreasonably small window, tap Done, paste password. (Then clear clipboard I suppose and consider privacy implication if your clipboard syncs to Mac.)
- Barbing 2mo agoGood thing if you have GMaps open to the directions list while driving and tell Siri to take a screenshot, it doesn’t throw up a full page of nonsense over your directions that only Voice Control (not Siri alone) or a [potentially nonexistent] passenger could close. Oh wait it absolutely does.
- water-drummer 2mo agoHow else are they gonna track you? Think of the big tech
- duskdozer 2mo agoIt's not about what you want. It's about increasing engagement with the Google platform