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Re: Google Maps Pacman

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Post by chiph » Tue, Mar 31, 2015, 7:47 PM UTC

No fair! The people in the midwest get an easy grid system!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Land_Survey_System

Re: Google Maps Pacman

#52

Post by hiharryhere » Tue, Mar 31, 2015, 8:33 PM UTC

martinml wrote: post #17

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.

I guess it's because in Australia it has been April 1st for 3 hours already.

Google Maps still has a lot of development work done in Australia. So it doesn't surprise me that the april fool launched 'early' in their timezone.

Re: Google Maps Pacman

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Post by chippy » Tue, Mar 31, 2015, 8:45 PM UTC

hoopism wrote: post #43

Was hoping to find some interesting links to levels: I'll start https://www.google.com/maps/@42.6395308,-71.3158648,18z/data...

if you go to Mountain View...

Re: Google Maps Pacman

#54

Post by roghummal » Tue, Mar 31, 2015, 9:17 PM UTC

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.

Hmm, I'm using Safari, no problem here.

Re: Google Maps Pacman

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Post by mdellabitta » Tue, Mar 31, 2015, 10:24 PM UTC

lkbm wrote: post #37

Ingress is Pacmanified as well today--various icons are Pacmen or ghosts.

Photo evidence: http://i.imgur.com/7xzpTas.jpg

Re: Google Maps Pacman

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 7:46 AM UTC

jcl wrote: post #42

vivien wrote: post #5

This is an awesome piece of work. metagame: find the hardest/simplest level on earth :) (I got Manhattan vs Tokyo)

Someone pointed out to me that the Arc de Triomphe is quite fun, with a big enough window size.

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Re: Google Maps Pacman

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Post by pimlottc » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 7:46 AM UTC

vivien wrote: post #5

This is an awesome piece of work. metagame: find the hardest/simplest level on earth :) (I got Manhattan vs Tokyo)

The Taj Mahal makes a near perfect Pacman grid: https://www.google.com/maps/@27.173227,78.0411062,18z/data=!...

It's not a great grid overall, but the zig-zag crookedness of Lombard Street is pretty fun to go through: https://www.google.com/maps/@37.8020373,-122.4196734,18z/dat...

Actually, in terms of snaking streets, while Snake Alley in Iowa is not as long, it makes for a much more playable grid: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.8118721,-91.1064303,18z/data...

Re: Google Maps Pacman

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Post by LiquidFlux » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 1:10 PM UTC

percept wrote: post #26

dheera wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can't stand how the whole UI jumps around, rearranges and resizes itself every time I try to do something. Seriously, buttons should stay put.

Agreed, and the search input stealing focus at page load when I'm trying to use the zoom shortcut keys always gets me. (So I see a lot of "===" or "---" in the text field and have to fight it by clicking on the map, usually twice as we face off in a tug-of-war.)

I have this with trying to go back to a previous search result on Google, very frustrating.