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Re: Google Maps Pacman

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leeoniya wrote: post #8
noedig wrote: post #6

That's cool, but I wish they had spent the time making Google Maps usable again.

this makes it usable again: https://maps.google.com/maps?dg=optperm&output=classic until they kill it off entirely :\ there is no version of the GL-enabled maps that ever ran faster or better for me than the basic tiled original.

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Re: Google Maps Pacman

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Post by mryingster »

leeoniya wrote: post #8
noedig wrote: post #6

That's cool, but I wish they had spent the time making Google Maps usable again.

this makes it usable again: https://maps.google.com/maps?dg=optperm&output=classic until they kill it off entirely :\ there is no version of the GL-enabled maps that ever ran faster or better for me than the basic tiled original.

This is amazing! Thank you! I always get so frustrated when I go to use Google Maps ever since the UI update. The floating drop-down search box infuriates me to no end.

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Post by fizgig »

noedig wrote: post #6

That's cool, but I wish they had spent the time making Google Maps usable again.

I wish they'd bring back the real estate search part of Maps. Anyone remember that short-lived project? It was awesome.

Re: Google Maps Pacman

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Post by fragsworth »

leeoniya wrote: post #8
noedig wrote: post #6

That's cool, but I wish they had spent the time making Google Maps usable again.

this makes it usable again: https://maps.google.com/maps?dg=optperm&output=classic until they kill it off entirely :\ there is no version of the GL-enabled maps that ever ran faster or better for me than the basic tiled original.

I'm not sure the classic output mode fixes the problems. I still see some street names not showing up, and it still arbitrarily resizes my map and moves around when I do a search, which it never did in the really old versions.

Re: Google Maps Pacman

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Post by smhenderson »

nmc wrote: post #4

Not available from every country (at the time of writing this). I feel so left out. EDIT: I was wrong, just that it is not available in Safari. Works with Chrome.

Thanks, I figured it was a browser issue but I was wondering what I was supposed to be seeing. All I got was the regular maps page.

Finally tried in Chromium on Debian and wow, fun!

Re: Google Maps Pacman

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Post by Millennium »

azurelogic wrote: post #15

April Fools is the new Black Friday. It's creeping into the day before. Soon, all of March is going to be prank month.

In this new global age, the International Date Line interferes somewhat with nailing down specific dates. In some parts of the world, it's already April 1.
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