Not that it will likely make a difference, but there's an online petition regarding the sheer awfulness of the new Google Maps and asking that the old version be brought back as an option:

https://www.change.org/p/larry-page-...ic-google-maps

And this is a good, if depressing, list of the changes in the new "improved" maps:

http://techforluddites.com/google-is...maps-for-good/