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Google Maps Revamped

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nbs2

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A geographical oddity
...and it stinks.

Sure, you can collapse the directions, it is a little snappier, you can add destinations more easily and you can plot walking routes, but feature loss far outweighs the benefits.

Lost are the ability to reorder your destinations (although Google claims that this is a bug and it will be restored) and time between segments (no comment, yet).

Color me disappointed.
 
I use Google Maps constantly to map out my band's tours and such. I only used the new revamped Google Map for a few minutes last night, but I hated it. I think it may have been because I was tired and not willing to adjust to something new that late at night, since I just fooled around with it a bit more right now and loved it haha.

Could you always add more destinations right in the beginning or is that new?
 
BreederCreature said:
Could you always add more destinations right in the beginning or is that new?
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It isn't either. It arrived a while ago, but wasn't an original feature, I believe. The benefit to the new design on this is that the location list is at the top, which means that you aren't forced to go to the end of the direction list to add a destination. But, good luck with reordering the list.
 
guifa said:
I just checked it out but it looks exactly the same as the old one. Did I miss something?
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The changes might have only been applied to the U.S. site so far.

They changed the widget you use to close the left-side panel (there's been a way to collapse it for a while, but now it's a << button near the top). They've embedded Directions in the left-side panel rather than having two side-by-side input boxes above the map. And they've removed the "Search the Map", "Find a Business", and "Get Directions" links from the space above the map and next to their logo.
 
ebow said:
The changes might have only been applied to the U.S. site so far.

They changed the widget you use to close the left-side panel (there's been a way to collapse it for a while, but now it's a << button near the top). They've embedded Directions in the left-side panel rather than having two side-by-side input boxes above the map. And they've removed the "Search the Map", "Find a Business", and "Get Directions" links from the space above the map and next to their logo.
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Hrm, I'm back home for the summer in Alabama, and the links there are still above with the two get directions text fields right above them. Collapse is still in the center of the dividing bar. Odd. Maybe they figure we Alabama folk prefer change to go much slower heh.
 
I've noticed it's been chopping between new and old on the UK version for a week now.

I don't have a problem with the new one, but preferred the old one. It wasn't broken, so why did they fix it? :rolleyes:
 
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