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Google is the "always online" company. So MapQuest should be the anti-Google: make a good, free offline maps app. All of the ones I've tried (on Android, at least) either had too little detail or a cumbersome user interface. But all of them were promoted to me directly by word-of-mouth. Make a great one, and people will spread it around. Become the fanatic's map app. The MapQuest brand could have the perfect retro-ni…
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Agreed. Google keeps ruining maps with needless UI changes. I still occasionally drop down to Classic because some feature I use is hard to find or hasn't been ported yet.
example?
The new street view hides the map in bottom corner, it now is a small thumbnail travesty with no way to to make it larger. And the thumbnail map cannot be made into satellite/earth view.
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After spending 10 minutes trying to find where Google moved their menu so I could print directions, (I completely missed the hamburger menu blended into the text box) I gave up used MapQuest instead. Instead of focusing on the quality of their map data, MapQuest can just compete by not ruining their UX.
the real question here is, what was the reason for printing directions? I think I also used MapQuest the last time I printed directions, 7 or 8 years ago? My phone just tells me when i need to turn now....
I find this hard to believe: "Though MapQuest still has the second-highest share of the domestic market in online mapping, about 25 percent"
I worked at two companies in the last 3 years that both used MapQuest a lot. Both companies had fleets of drivers (one had about 200 trucks and the other had about 500). The first was pretty low tech and just distributed MapQuest printouts to drivers that had to go somewhere. The other was quite a bit more technically sound and had a pretty cool dispatching and routing system. All the maps were rendered using MapQues…
But, I can say this - MapQuest doesn't have much of an international presence. I just typed, "10 Anson Road, Singapore" (and then "10 Anson Road, Singapore, Singapore" just for safe measure) - It showed me a map of Norwalk, CT.
So, even if I wanted to try it - pretty much out of luck.
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After spending 10 minutes trying to find where Google moved their menu so I could print directions, (I completely missed the hamburger menu blended into the text box) I gave up used MapQuest instead. Instead of focusing on the quality of their map data, MapQuest can just compete by not ruining their UX.
I wasted a few minutes the other day searching for a spreadsheet in Google "Drive"...because by default only "Docs" are selected and for whatever reason that refers only to "Word" style documents now, not spreadsheets. Especially confusing since people still call it Google Docs, so when you open it and it just says "Docs" you're just thinking, "yes, I'm on Google Docs" not "I'm viewing only Word style documents". Ter…
I really don't understand why they have docs, sheets etc. as different google services, with their own domains. Maybe they just want to mirror the mobile apps, but even there, why do I need to download 3 distinct apps?
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example?
In classic mode, you can do street view half of the screen, and map/earth view the other half of the screen. This is amazing if you are travelling to a new area and want to learn map quickly (as you see street view and map view at the same time, in as much detail). The new street view hides the map in bottom corner, it now is a small thumbnail travesty with no way to to make it larger. And the thumbnail map cannot be…
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I wasted a few minutes the other day searching for a spreadsheet in Google "Drive"...because by default only "Docs" are selected and for whatever reason that refers only to "Word" style documents now, not spreadsheets. Especially confusing since people still call it Google Docs, so when you open it and it just says "Docs" you're just thinking, "yes, I'm on Google Docs" not "I'm viewing only Word style documents". Ter…
Isn't that because you went to docs.google.com instead of drive.google.com? I really don't understand why they have docs, sheets etc. as different google services, with their own domains. Maybe they just want to mirror the mobile apps, but even there, why do I need to download 3 distinct apps?
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Isn't that because you went to docs.google.com instead of drive.google.com? I really don't understand why they have docs, sheets etc. as different google services, with their own domains. Maybe they just want to mirror the mobile apps, but even there, why do I need to download 3 distinct apps?
Wow, you're right. It didn't even occur to me that the domain would have any effect whatsoever.