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Google's been getting worse about this lately... Lollipop (Android) seems to be a step backwards than forwards from KitKat. No lock-screen music controls, Gallery is gone, no Reboot option, Blocking Mode replaced with dumbed down DnD mode...
Then there's all of the great companies out there Google bought, then killed off. SageTV was an awesome product. Still would be, but Google bought it, then stopped selling it and never did anything with it. Postini was well-loved, but Google also ate that up and got rid of it as well. It's almost time for another company to pick up on the progress where Google left off. |
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Originally Posted by WWGuy
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I think Google has switched from taking over companies to improve their own products to taking over companies to prevent competition from forcing them to improve their own products. I will say they have at least fixed maps enough that it doesn't crash all the time on me.
only when I am within a mile or so of my destination does it crash now.:rolleyes: |
Originally Posted by WWGuy
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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/ |
I don't get it? When I go to maps.google.com I get the full version, not a lite version. And it works just fine. Where's the problem?
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Originally Posted by WWGuy
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Originally Posted by stimpy
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I don't get it? When I go to maps.google.com I get the full version, not a lite version. And it works just fine. Where's the problem?
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Originally Posted by milepig
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Try printing a set of maps with step by step directions. Drop dead easy in the old version.
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Are we talking the android app or the web based version?
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Originally Posted by milepig
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Try printing a set of maps
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Originally Posted by HDQDD
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People still do that? :)
And to be clear, I was talking about the web version. I also use the iOS version which works fine too. No issues for me anyways. |
Originally Posted by KRSW
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Google's been getting worse about this lately... Lollipop (Android) seems to be a step backwards than forwards from KitKat. No lock-screen music controls,<snip>
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Originally Posted by richarddd
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I went back to KitKat for the lock-screen music controls. It's much easier to touch the play button than to swipe, enter pin and then hit play. And why the bleep do we have to swipe before entering a pin on Lollipop - why can't the number pad be on the lockscreen like on KK?
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Originally Posted by richarddd
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I went back to KitKat for the lock-screen music controls. It's much easier to touch the play button than to swipe, enter pin and then hit play. And why the bleep do we have to swipe before entering a pin on Lollipop - why can't the number pad be on the lockscreen like on KK?
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Originally Posted by SRQ Guy
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I have lock screen music controls (without having to swipe or enter my PIN) on Lollipop on my Nexus 6. Which music app are you using?
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Originally Posted by HDQDD
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People still do that? :)
Originally Posted by stimpy
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Hah, that's what I thought. Why not just buy a map at a service station? I thought one of the main points of Google maps was to avoid paper maps.
And to be clear, I was talking about the web version. I also use the iOS version which works fine too. No issues for me anyways. |
Originally Posted by SRQ Guy
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I have lock screen music controls (without having to swipe or enter my PIN) on Lollipop on my Nexus 6. Which music app are you using?
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Originally Posted by WWGuy
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One would think that a successful company like Google would no better than to try to fix things which aren't broken. The cynic in me thinks it is all a scheme by webdesigners to stay employed. They convince Google management that they are needed because what is already designed isn't really the best. So many google failures of late... Google+, the new Google Mail compose, and now new Google maps. |
Originally Posted by CPRich
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Unfortunately - "This version of Google Maps is updating soon.". That message showed up on my regular page only a few days before the forced switch.
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I have noticed in the last few days that when driving at night, the map occasionally "flashes". I have been too busy driving to catch what it is doing at the exact time. Has anyone else noticed this?
P.S. Why does it seem to have the worst time with wrong directions and lanes in Google's hometown? |
Originally Posted by WWGuy
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Sigh. |
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Excellent. Thank you.
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Yeah its brutal....However for a lot of my travel planning, I use rome2rio.com
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Originally Posted by WWGuy
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Originally Posted by cblaisd
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Excellent. Thank you.
For the moment, this one http://maps.google.com/maps/myplaces still works |
Originally Posted by cblaisd
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Sigh. Link now takes you to the crappy "improved" maps.
For the moment, this one http://maps.google.com/maps/myplaces still works |
Originally Posted by cblaisd
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But this one: https://www.google.com/maps/mms and this one https://www.google.com/maps/mmtypeanythinghere and this one http://www.google.com/maps/mmbringbackclassic are still working. Someone has created an attempt to replicate Classic Google Maps here: http://gokml.net/maps It's clunkier but has the same map interface and allows dragging of routes. |
Originally Posted by cblaisd
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And it's dead, Jim.
But this one: https://www.google.com/maps/mms and this one https://www.google.com/maps/mmtypeanythinghere and this one http://www.google.com/maps/mmbringbackclassic are still working. The Bring Back Google Maps Campaign page still has some resources: Working Classic Maps URLs You can still access Classic Maps at www.google.com/mapmaker. You can’t currently make edits to it, which is what it was designed for, but you can get the basic Maps functionality. You do need to click the Edit link at the top to access the Directions feature (right-clicking isn’t working for me) and the split-screen has the map at the top and the street view at the bottom, but it’s still a lot closer to Classic Maps than the new ones. Also thanks to reader John for sharing a whole slew of URLs that incorporate Classic Maps! www.theaa.com/route-planner/index.jsp shipspotting.com/ais/index.php http://www.sunearthtools.com/dp/tool...th.php?lang=en www.heywhatsthat.com/ www.westernhvdclink.co.uk/map-of-route.aspx He also has this great recommendation: “Also try other websites which may include a map. e.g. Weather, Earthquakes, Fire-Risk, Traffic, Skiing, Surfing, Gliding, Shipping, Air Traffic, Internet Cable Routes & Traffic, National Parks, Tourism.” |
iOS update of Google Maps brings back the ability to open custom My Maps that you create.
Finally! After like 3 years. |
Google Maps -- I Mostly Like it Fine. It could handle French better though.
I don't really hate the not-so-new-anymore updated Google Maps (for Android, if it matters). I've pretty much forgotten whatever features the old version offered that still aren't available in the new one.
However, I did find it amusing a couple of weeks ago when the only way I could find to make Maps read navigation directions comprehensibly in Quebec was to switch the whole phone's language to French. I'm pretty sure Maps used to let me choose its language independently. Hearing the English-US voice mangle French names was amusing, but I had a lot of trouble decoding the words. I speak French, so it was kind of cool to have the phone in a different language for a while, leaving traces in my emails, Facebook, Evernote, etc. But it will be an entirely different story when I travel somewhere where I don't know the language. |
One advantage iOS Maps purportedly has is its granular routing from transit station exits. And it does - but only for a limited set of city transport systems. But the same exits with identifiers are already in Google Maps, so the usual workaround to drop pins on them to start routes still works almost as well. I wish Google's devs would streamline things so we don't have to do the extra step or two...
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It's an unfortunate problem in technology. These high paid programmers have to do something and unfortunately, few people have caught on to the it's not broken don't fix it idea.
Either it was bad to start with so hold who built it accountable or leave it alone. |
Originally Posted by ou81two
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It's an unfortunate problem in technology. These high paid programmers have to do something and unfortunately, few people have caught on to the it's not broken don't fix it idea.
Either it was bad to start with so hold who built it accountable or leave it alone. |
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