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I don't really think it was stale or stagnated exactly. You probably saw recently a few posts about how much work goes into them and why exactly they're better
by devindotcom 13y ago
I don't really think it was stale or stagnated exactly. You probably saw recently a few posts about how much work goes into them and why exactly they're better than Apple's or Microsoft's. It's very subtle and fundamental stuff. They didn't change much, it's true, but that's because the competition was so bad and they leapfrogged them by so much at the beginning.
We'll see how the new look works in action - I can't say I see a huge improvement, though there are definitely a few features that make it more at-a-glance effective.
- Spearchucker 13y agoIn comparison to http://here.com http://here.com Google Maps was stale.
- jlogsdon 13y agoWhen was this launched? I have never heard of it, and it looks pretty solid.
- jeroen 13y agoIt's Nokia Maps.
- untog 13y agoI beg to differ. That map style looks worse than Google Maps to me.
- pavs 13y agoNot even remotely close.
- seszett 13y agoFor some reason, Kerguelen island and quite a few others in the Indian Ocean don't even exist on Nokia's maps.
- snogglethorpe 13y agoNokia's maps, judging from what here.com shows, seem to be essentially useless outside the U.S./Europe. Japan/Korea/etc are essentially not covered at all ... they don't even seem to have any roads except for the most major highways—Tokyo on here.com literally has like five roads!—and what very little data they do have is often wrong. Even Apple does vastly better... oO;
- hexasquid 13y agoThere is something very strange about Japan maps. I couldn't get them to cache on Android, and Bing / Here maps wouldn't show them at all.
- Spearchucker 13y agoYMMV. I've used it in South Africa, Mozambique, Botswana and Namibia, and was very impressed. Little tracks that hardly qualify as a road are there, and reliable. The other big deal in that part of the world is that both maps and navigation are 100% functional when offline.
- sneak 13y agoDespite not updating Google Voice for HiDPI for what felt like an inexcusably long time, one thing they almost always do right is serve retina stuff whenever and wherever possible (which was probably aided internally a bit by the release of the pixel). Anyone making graphics-intensive sites (maps, photos, landing pages, etc) that isn't serving @2X versions is now officially Doing It Wrong. The retina iPad has been out for ages, and we now have a sub-$1500 laptop (and of course all of the high-end Apple stuff) on which all of this low-res stuff makes your brand and product look like crap. Seriously, it's not that hard.
- Digit-Al 13y agoI tried the different views on this. Maps 3D appears to be identical to Satellite, and Terrain appears to be the same as the normal Map view.