Originally Posted by
stimpy
What kind of PC? I have a 4 year old Thinkpad running XP and the new maps loads fine on my PC. It is taking some getting used to though!
Are you using Chrome?
About a 1 year old Lenovo running Win7. 3.2GHz/4GB.
I've tried Chrome (my primary browser), IE, and Firefox to no avail. Most of the time I get the gray screen with "Google" and the three dots in the middle, the search box, and the black menu bar across the top, but it never gets past there to load an actual map.
I rather enjoy the old Maps anyway, so I'm clinging on to that for now.
Originally Posted by
mikew99
Possibly nothing. But based on my FB experience, I don't want to to have to figure out what info from my Google profile that Google+ does or does not share, how to disable it, and how to keep it unshared. In fact, there's nothing whatsoever I want from Google+.
My solution to this is to not sign up for Google+ at all and not have to worry about what it might be sharing. If/when Google+ has some compelling feature that's worth the trouble, I'll reconsider.
To keep this post OT, I'll add that if Google someday decides to integrate with Google Maps with Google+, that might just drive me to Bing. :shudder:
Do you use Gmail, Maps, or any other Google product/service? I'm relatively sure that if they truly wanted to, they can and do still capture user information for folks not using G+.
I'm with you that I have no use for G+ and it seems like a bit of a hassle (especially with the big push to integrate everything into it), but I just registered the account anyway and put in nothing more than my name and city (and maybe birth year). That's all information that Google has about me anyway via Gmail and Android, so even if they did want to share it, it's not like they have anything extra just because of G+.