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Agreed. Google keeps ruining maps with needless UI changes. I still occasionally drop down to Classic because some feature I use is hard to find or hasn't been

Agreed. Google keeps ruining maps with needless UI changes. I still occasionally drop down to Classic because some feature I use is hard to find or hasn't been ported yet.

marvy 11y ago
example?
- pfranz 11y ago
  I'm pretty sure the person you drop down for street view was missing for a few weeks. I can't remember if street view was accessible in other ways. I was looking for the short url last week. It used to be near the top-right under something like "URL." Now, it's in the bottom-right, under the gear, then "share or embed map." I was looking for satellite view for awhile, until I realized they renamed it to "Earth." I just assumed they no longer offered a printable page with directions. When messing around for this comment I found it under "Details" after you look up driving directions.
- adamzochowski 11y ago
  In classic mode, you can do street view half of the screen, and map/earth view the other half of the screen. This is amazing if you are travelling to a new area and want to learn map quickly (as you see street view and map view at the same time, in as much detail). The new street view hides the map in bottom corner, it now is a small thumbnail travesty with no way to to make it larger. And the thumbnail map cannot be made into satellite/earth view.
  - marvy 11y ago
    neat!
derf_ 11y ago
I thought Classic had finally been removed for good? When I went to get directions a few weeks back and they told me that a) I couldn't use Classic anymore, and b) the new UI only had a drop-down for arrival time with half-hour increments, instead of letting me type a precise time (trains often arrive a couple minutes after the hour), and c) they removed the option for getting public transit directions at all (that had been there and working in Classic for years), I said three strikes and you're out and switched to Yahoo.
- gs7 11y ago
  You can still get to it by going to https://maps.google.com/lochp https://maps.google.com/lochp

Agreed. Google keeps ruining maps with needless UI changes. I still occasionally drop down to Classic because some feature I use is hard to find or hasn't been ported yet.

marvy 11y ago

example?

pfranz 11y ago
I'm pretty sure the person you drop down for street view was missing for a few weeks. I can't remember if street view was accessible in other ways. I was looking for the short url last week. It used to be near the top-right under something like "URL." Now, it's in the bottom-right, under the gear, then "share or embed map." I was looking for satellite view for awhile, until I realized they renamed it to "Earth." I just assumed they no longer offered a printable page with directions. When messing around for this comment I found it under "Details" after you look up driving directions.
adamzochowski 11y ago
In classic mode, you can do street view half of the screen, and map/earth view the other half of the screen. This is amazing if you are travelling to a new area and want to learn map quickly (as you see street view and map view at the same time, in as much detail). The new street view hides the map in bottom corner, it now is a small thumbnail travesty with no way to to make it larger. And the thumbnail map cannot be made into satellite/earth view.
- marvy 11y ago
  neat!

derf_ 11y ago

I thought Classic had finally been removed for good? When I went to get directions a few weeks back and they told me that a) I couldn't use Classic anymore, and b) the new UI only had a drop-down for arrival time with half-hour increments, instead of letting me type a precise time (trains often arrive a couple minutes after the hour), and c) they removed the option for getting public transit directions at all (that had been there and working in Classic for years), I said three strikes and you're out and switched to Yahoo.

gs7 11y ago
You can still get to it by going to https://maps.google.com/lochp https://maps.google.com/lochp