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The New Google Maps

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Re: The New Google Maps

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Post by 542458 »

I'm curious to see how people react to how it adjusts to what you click. I can see that leading to a lot of confusion or frustration among less tech-savvy folks, although I'm sure Google has already user-tested to hell and back again.

Re: The New Google Maps

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Post by w0utert »

criley wrote: post #10
w0utert wrote: post #3

I'd love to see how the new interactive features actually work out, but for me the video isn't playing on iPad :-/

It's just an embedded youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=...

That's weird because I searched it on YouTube but it wasn't there before. Bit too early I guess... ;-)

Not overly impressed by any of the new features though, looks like they just pushed their recommendation engine more to the front and brushed up the UI map rendering a bit, but that's about it. Still a lot better than any other map service though.

Re: The New Google Maps

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Post by zwieback »

Osmium wrote: post #7

What would be really cool is if the intro video/examples was automatically generated using map data from your current location. On another note: it's interesting that it wasn't until I saw this design refresh that I didn't realise just how stale the old design was. It seems like Google revolutionised the maps world when they first released it, and then they let the interface stagnate ever since, so this is nice to se…

I had the same thought but the SF map is a lot more exciting than where I live.

Re: The New Google Maps

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Post by tomkarlo »

w0utert wrote: post #22
criley wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's just an embedded youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=...

That's weird because I searched it on YouTube but it wasn't there before. Bit too early I guess... ;-) Not overly impressed by any of the new features though, looks like they just pushed their recommendation engine more to the front and brushed up the UI map rendering a bit, but that's about it. Still a lot better than any other map service though.

Not all videos stored on YouTube show up on YouTube search... it's a setting.

Re: The New Google Maps

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Post by potatolicious »

revelation wrote: post #2

An invite? To test a new version of Google Maps? This isn't Gmail and it's not a freaking social network. When will you learn Google?

I don't see anything wrong with this. There are any number of scalability, data quality, and other problems that will inevitably crop up when you scale out something like this. Short of a Death Star full of genetically engineered QA monkeys Google has to launch this incrementally to avoid the complete disaster that was Apple Maps.

An invitation/queue system seems like the perfect answer.

Re: The New Google Maps

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Post by eridius »

kailuowang wrote: post #4

Google map was the one of the first web applications that revolutionized the web with Ajax. This new Google map could be another one that revolutionize the industry again with WebGL.

It's too bad WebGL isn't usable yet. It's still disabled by default in multiple popular browsers, and in the browsers that have it enabled, it's a security risk (which is precisely the reason why some browsers, such as Safari, don't enable it).

Re: The New Google Maps

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Post by killion »

Does it feel odd to anyone else that you click the "Request an invite" button and it doesn't ask who you are? Also nowhere on the page does it show my identity.
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