Google Maps Has Forsaken Us

Post by orbifold » Sat, May 10, 2014, 8:08 PM UTC

TeMPOraL wrote: post #83

judk wrote: post #68

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> somebody with a tiny screen and a near-complete lack of technical ability The vast majority of users.

And that continuous pandering to them is what will bring the downfall of the information age. We are dumbing down our technology, where we should be forcing people to get smarter instead. But unfortunately, dumber is always easier to sell. I fear that, as the world depends more and more on technology (and people actually thinking straight), this feedback loop of progressing idiocy might one day undo us.

Post by MaysonL » Sat, May 10, 2014, 8:12 PM UTC

blibble wrote: post #188

jameshart wrote: post #94

Something is, indeed, terribly terribly wrong in Google Maps algorithm land. For at least the last couple of weeks, Google Maps has been insisting that Basingstoke in England is called "Town Centre", and is one of the most important places in England. On a view of the entire country, it's displaying a label in the same font-size it uses for Southampton, Bristol and Liverpool marking Basingstoke as "Town Centre". Manc…

Basingstoke one of the most important places in England? pull the other one

Post by Yossarian_Lives » Sat, May 10, 2014, 8:17 PM UTC

adwf wrote: post #69

Yossarian_Lives wrote: post #29

My pet peeve as a Londoner; the disappearance of the transit layer when searching for a place. If you've not searched for anything, New-oogle Maps will happily show you the card that lets you activate the transit layer and superimpose the spiderweb of tube lines on to the London map. However, the second a marker gets dropped, good luck seeing that layer ever again. I mean, even if you clickity clack through the direc…

Yeah, I have the exact same complaint. Took me 10 minutes to find out how to get the transit layer back. Then I found out it was practically unusable because as soon as you scroll across London, it disappears... Have you tried using Citymapper? I've only used it a couple of times as I'm not a Londoner, but it's quite good (it knows to avoid the circle line!). Coincidentally, the first time was to get to #HNLondon whe…

Post by joel_perl_prog » Sat, May 10, 2014, 8:21 PM UTC

dragonwriter wrote: post #181

joel_perl_prog wrote: post #152

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Just gonna jump to your last thing. No, my complaint is not about drag to zoom. It's about double-click to zoom (the words I used, but I know sometimes things can be looked as maybe just an expression or sloppy language). Double-click. Literally. Click, click. Zoom. This no longer works correctly. Much of the time, instead of zooming, well... it does something else, I honestly can't remember what. Maybe opens a littl…

> No, my complaint is not about drag to zoom. It's about double-click to zoom (the words I used, but I know sometimes things can be looked as maybe just an expression or It was clear you were complaining about double-click to zoom, but it was far less clear what about double-click to zoom your complaint was about. I guessed you might have been complaining that double-click to zoom was the only method, as Maps used (I…

Post by growt » Sat, May 10, 2014, 9:02 PM UTC

bluecalm wrote: post #159

growt wrote: post #149

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For me it's the fact that my android phone notifies me about a new chat 5-10 minutes after I finished(!) the conversation on my desktop (gmail, webclient). It's really annoying. My phone beeps, I think: "Oh a new chat", look at the phone, "oh, it's just that thing from 10 minutes ago".

I get that the phone can't check for new messages all the time because battery and stuff but wouldn't it be possible to have timestamps for first/last message in a converstation or something so the phone could detect that if the conversation was going on for some time already on different device then it shouldn't notify about it? I mean it doesn't sound like rocket science, are there any deep architecture problems wi…