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Not sure if everybody sees the same example but the map I see with different ways by car and by train is cute but obviously very wrong. A railway is rarely stra

• beering 13y ago
  The public-transit lines just connect the different stations/stops. Riders don't usually care so much where exactly their bus or train goes through, since they can only alight at certain points.
• 205guy 13y ago
  Yeah, I thought that was weird. I'd much prefer the transit being mapped out on it's actual path, with symbols for stops. In the video it does show a cool new feature where different transit options are compared in a timeline. As an aside, the new look of the maps reminds me a lot of my beloved Michelin maps. Google used to have zero terrain on the regular map, only forest/park shading, but now they have a minimal amount, just like Michelin. It really does help me "read" the landscape. A lot of the colors also seem to be converging to Michelin standards.
• snogglethorpe 13y ago
  Hmm, the current google maps correctly shows rail trips on the map as following the actual rail line, so I'm guessing they'll get the new one doing that too by the time its really release... :]