They should implement one-way streets, where you have to obey the direction but ghosts don’t, to make Pacman even more interesting.
Google Maps Pacman
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#32That's cool, but I wish they had spent the time making Google Maps usable again.
Maps was the one Google app I thought I'd miss when I switched to Blackberry.
And, it is. But Blackberry Maps is soo much nicer for the "just show me where I am on a map" use-case. Street names are shown, and displayed in large font, and the interaction is much faster than GM now. Google Maps has better data and more information like shops and transit... but the experience of using it is frustrating in comparison.
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#33That'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.
Hahaha. I've been using the new GMaps for ages, and always thought it was fine. So I thought, I'll check out the old one and see how different it really is.
Holy crap it's fast. Wow. There's no loading or giant pixels, zooming is instant, scrolling around is instant. I can't get over how much faster this is. Woof.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Hahaha. I've been using the new GMaps for ages, and always thought it was fine. So I thought, I'll check out the old one and see how different it really is. Holy crap it's fast. Wow. There's no loading or giant pixels, zooming is instant, scrolling around is instant. I can't get over how much faster this is. Woof.
Part of that might be that no one is using those servers anymore.
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#35Good but not that useful..
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hahaha. I've been using the new GMaps for ages, and always thought it was fine. So I thought, I'll check out the old one and see how different it really is. Holy crap it's fast. Wow. There's no loading or giant pixels, zooming is instant, scrolling around is instant. I can't get over how much faster this is. Woof.
Part of that might be that no one is using those servers anymore.
i can tell you, unambiguously, that it has always been this fast. those tilesets are almost certainly statically cached and served at lightning speed with practically 0 overhead from some regionally located cdn server.
server load would have a statistically imperceptible impact here; never seen a google product roll out with scale-related issues, especially one as mature as their gmaps architecture was at the time of the GL switch.
EDIT: the image-based maps is a great example of the "Choose Boring Technology" thread [1]. the benefits of the GL maps, IMO, do not justify the enormous speed sacrifice, at least to the end users. i'm sure google's ultimate plan was/is to merge google earth and "3d/vr/augment all the things!", but for basic maps it is just terrible. i'm really sad about the whole situation because they really have great looking, readable tilesets, much better than OSM (even if less complete). sadly, they never did get the pixel-density-appropriate versions made for mobile devices and all the features looked tiny when implemented using their js maps api :(
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#37Ingress is Pacmanified as well today--various icons are Pacmen or ghosts.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Part of that might be that no one is using those servers anymore.
i can tell you, unambiguously, that it has always been this fast. those tilesets are almost certainly statically cached and served at lightning speed with practically 0 overhead from some regionally located cdn server. server load would have a statistically imperceptible impact here; never seen a google product roll out with scale-related issues, especially one as mature as their gmaps architecture was at the time of…
Did Google render and cache all tiles on some interval? Otherwise, server load may affect speed if expired tiles are re-rendered.
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#39Cool but I'm pretty sure someone needs to read up on the algorithms used by the ghosts... http://gameinternals.com/post/2072558330/understanding-pac-m...
I was wondering whether they paid attention to that. There's definitely different behaviour depending on the ghosts (red always follows you)
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Part of that might be that no one is using those servers anymore.
i can tell you, unambiguously, that it has always been this fast. those tilesets are almost certainly statically cached and served at lightning speed with practically 0 overhead from some regionally located cdn server. server load would have a statistically imperceptible impact here; never seen a google product roll out with scale-related issues, especially one as mature as their gmaps architecture was at the time of…
I think one of the "benefits" of the new version of the maps is that they can more easily customize the output per user.
This means that they can show different businesses to you based on your searches, and possibly some day charge businesses to be "put on the map".