Google Maps pinch zoom issues - Android

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Is it me or does my Milestone (GSM Droid) running Google Maps 4.4 or whatever it is... this should be the US version, but I see it sometimes messing up using pinch zoom.

Sometimes I pinch zoom and it freaks out and zooms in like 5x more after I let go. I'm not really sure if this is my device itself or this is how Android is.... Basically if I pinch zoom in or out, sometimes it moves a bit or zooms in/out a little bit more. It's almost like it's SUPER sensitive to how I let go of my fingers. I'm sure our fingers don't naturally just lift up in the Z direction perfectly orthogonally. There must be some x-y shift (although very minor) when lifting our fingers up which might be why my device is freaking out? I can confirm this is NOT an issue in browsers like xScope or Dolphin.

I'm a little peeved sometimes, and of course my iPhone friends will use my phone sometimes and go "WTF... shitty pinch zoom" and laugh. I've been an iPod Touch user for a while and this has never been a problem, but somehow on Android it's meh. Apparently I see some people complaining about it on DroidForums.net too, so it's not just me... Odd.

 

[vshah]

gmaps doesn't have unlimited zoom levels. when you let go, it will jump to the closest zoom level, be that in or out. i think iphone might take the images received for one level, and scale between them as well, but its been a while since I used gmaps on an iphone so I can't be sure.

 

[DivideBYZero]

I've noticed this, but then I'm running Froyo on a G1, so I just thought it was me stressing old hardware to breaking point.

 

[notposting]

I've noticed it too. Can be very touchy. I use the +/- buttons more often.