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-   -   Google Maps Update. I HATE IT!! (https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/travel-technology/1490437-google-maps-update-i-hate.html)

Cloudship Apr 30, 2015 6:31 pm
Are we talking the android app or the web based version?

HDQDD Apr 30, 2015 6:32 pm
Originally Posted by milepig (Post 24747265)
Try printing a set of maps
People still do that? :)

stimpy May 1, 2015 2:44 am
Originally Posted by HDQDD (Post 24747578)
People still do that? :)
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.

richarddd May 1, 2015 5:45 am
Originally Posted by KRSW (Post 24744687)
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>
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?

gobluetwo May 1, 2015 7:04 am
Originally Posted by richarddd (Post 24749313)
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?
Because that's what Apple does? Maybe mysterious pocket logins? Who knows.

SRQ Guy May 1, 2015 7:14 am
Originally Posted by richarddd (Post 24749313)
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?
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?

richarddd May 1, 2015 2:56 pm
Originally Posted by SRQ Guy (Post 24749627)
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?
Is the lockscreen music control there all of the time? I have it when playing music (and shortly thereafter) with many music apps, but not otherwise.

HMO May 1, 2015 3:29 pm
Originally Posted by HDQDD (Post 24747578)
People still do that? :)
Originally Posted by stimpy (Post 24748879)
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.
My mother. Yesterday I went with her (at her car) to pick up my nephew at school, and she got a paper map to show me the route she was willing to do in order to go to my brother's home... :cool:

WIRunner May 1, 2015 4:11 pm
Originally Posted by SRQ Guy (Post 24749627)
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?
Just checked the Nexus 4 and it did the same with Spotify and Google Music. Not sure what this has to do with Google Maps though.

Indelaware May 1, 2015 10:38 pm
Originally Posted by WWGuy (Post 24744809)
You can still view classic version at this link... for now.

https://www.google.com/lochp
Thanks.

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.

cblaisd May 15, 2015 11:29 pm
Originally Posted by CPRich (Post 24746301)
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.
Maybe there's hope.... That message no longer shows up for me when using the classic link.

Cloudship May 16, 2015 12:50 am
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?

cblaisd May 29, 2015 8:34 am
Originally Posted by WWGuy (Post 24744809)
You can still view classic version at this link... for now.

https://www.google.com/lochp
That link now goes to the new and "improved" -- NOT! -- Google maps.

Sigh.

WWGuy May 29, 2015 12:02 pm
Try this link:

https://maps.google.com/maps?output=classi

cblaisd May 29, 2015 12:15 pm
Excellent. Thank you.


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