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Good bye, Google Maps… thanks for all the fish

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Re: Good bye, Google Maps… thanks for all the fish

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Post by brisance »

Andrenid wrote: post #107
rottencupcakes wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. Google+ is one of the easiest correctly sized columns of text to read on my iPhone. The following is a screen shot. Do you care to elaborate on what is wrong? http://imgur.com/xDksb

Agreed. I actually find it one of the nicer reading experiences on the iPhone considering so many other sites don't wrap properly and make me scroll sideways to read each sentence. I also don't get any of the blur mentioned when scrolling.

Try pinch zooming. Made it all blurry for me.

Re: Good bye, Google Maps… thanks for all the fish

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Post by fpgeek »

cryptoz wrote: post #11
dpcan wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also not on the topic of the article, but... I wish people would stop blogging on Google plus. Period. It's the worst reading experience ever on the iPhone - nearly impossible as the text blurs, and you have to drag the article around to see it all and then wait for the blur to go away.

Does the iPhone not open Google Plus posts in the Google Plus app? Or do you not have it installed? The reason your experience is awful is because Google doesn't care to make the G+ mobile web experience perfect since their app is the way to go. On Android, when I click one of these links it opens the app and the reading experience is very pleasant. Maybe I've just been spoiled, but I find the experience to be pretty…

I'd be surprised if you could easily go from an Mobile Safari (or another iPhone browser) to the Google+ app when you click on a Google+ post. The way that works on Android is via Intents and, AFAIK, iOS doesn't have anything like that.

Re: Good bye, Google Maps… thanks for all the fish

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Post by cemregr »

FireBeyond wrote: post #32
Xuzz wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Should you need a third party app installed for a good reading experience? I don't use Google+ and don't want the app on iOS, even if it was launched when I click a Google+ link (which, fwiw, you are correct: it currently does not). (On the other hand, Tumblr looks great on mobile, and it doesn't need an app. Facebook, too, is at least readable on their mobile site.)

Does anyone actually use Tumblr for original content, or for that matter, text? 99% or more of the Tumblrs I've seen are just people recirculating other Tumblr photos.

The vast majority of all tumblr traffic is porn.

Re: Good bye, Google Maps… thanks for all the fish

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Post by zak_mc_kracken »

dpcan wrote: post #10
kooshball wrote: post #7

I really wish there is a way to show more than just the domain name next to the title. >Good bye, Google Maps… thanks for all the fish (google.com) is simply misleading.

Also not on the topic of the article, but... I wish people would stop blogging on Google plus. Period. It's the worst reading experience ever on the iPhone - nearly impossible as the text blurs, and you have to drag the article around to see it all and then wait for the blur to go away.

> It's the worst reading experience ever on the iPhone

Yup, but it's probably the best writing experience for most bloggers, and also people who don't have blogs. Even if you have one with a decent readership, the engagement you get from Google+ is far higher than anything you can get when people need to use RSS and a reader to follow you.

Re: Good bye, Google Maps… thanks for all the fish

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Post by tokenadult »

kooshball wrote: post #7

I really wish there is a way to show more than just the domain name next to the title. >Good bye, Google Maps… thanks for all the fish (google.com) is simply misleading.

I really wish there is a way to show more than just the domain name next to the title.

There is. I installed the user script Show Full Domain on Hacker News posts,

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/121512

mentioned in an earlier Hacker News thread, and it works well. I knew the submitted article was from plus.google.com and was able to anticipate its content accordingly.

(I am running this user script on Chrome.)

Re: Good bye, Google Maps… thanks for all the fish

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Post by RandallBrown »

AntiRush wrote: post #110
lazerwalker wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's correct. If you don't have the app in question installed, you get a nasty "Page could not be found" error. There are hacky and unstable JS tricks you can pull with setTimeout to send the user to the app store if they don't have the app installed, but I haven't heard of any reliable way to deal with this (pretty glaring) failure case. Even just the ability to suppress the error message would be more or less fin…

How about loading the gplus:// link in a hidden iframe. Then continue to load the page in the browser. If they have the app installed, it will redirect, otherwise the page will just load in the browser.

I'm fairly sure when I tried something like that it popped up a "Page not found" dialog. I may have been doing it wrong though.

Re: Good bye, Google Maps… thanks for all the fish

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Post by Garbage »

dpcan wrote: post #10
kooshball wrote: post #7

I really wish there is a way to show more than just the domain name next to the title. >Good bye, Google Maps… thanks for all the fish (google.com) is simply misleading.

Also not on the topic of the article, but... I wish people would stop blogging on Google plus. Period. It's the worst reading experience ever on the iPhone - nearly impossible as the text blurs, and you have to drag the article around to see it all and then wait for the blur to go away.

I wish people would stop blogging on Google plus. Period.

I wish the same, but for different reason. I can't open Google+ links in office. :(

Re: Good bye, Google Maps… thanks for all the fish

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Post by tmcw »

pud wrote: post #120

Fortunately Google Maps' geocoding API limits still appear to be based on IP address. So if you do your API requests via client-side AJAX, you should be fine. That's because it's unlikely any individual user will make more than 25,000 requests in a day.

Almost: unfortunately via the terms, you need to display the geocoding results on a Google Map.

> Note: the Geocoding API may only be used in conjunction with a Google map; geocoding results without displaying them on a map is prohibited.

from: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/geocoding/

So, though the limit is technically lower, it's practically and legally quite the same.

Re: Good bye, Google Maps… thanks for all the fish

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Post by jc4p »

fludlight wrote: post #123

Where does the data for building shapes come from? Both Google Maps and the OP's website incorporate it. What is the format? Can I download the raw data in bulk (preferably for free) for a data mining project?

By shapes do you mean borders? Or do you mean buildings and things... The borders come from http://www.openstreetmap.org/ which is editable/exportable in many formats.
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