The new Google Map...meh.

[IHAVEAQUESTION]

Prettier to look at, harder to use.

For instance, no little human to drag & drop for street view. Without it, how do I know which street is available on street view?

Second, no search result list. This is a biggie for me. It's much easier to work through the list and see the location of each search result rather than panning around the map to find them.

Is there a way to revert to the old map?

 

[Printer Bandit]

is this invite only?

 

[phucheneh]

I noticed the font changes first. Hate it. And to add to the obstructive text, there's more of it.

Please, Google, tell me why you needed to make up a name for areas of my city that have never had names? Who sits around and comes up with this shit? There is seriously a 'neighborhood' name for like every group of twenty houses, even when they aren't even part of a subdivision or anything.

 

[Chaotic42]

I'm not seeing any difference. You're talking Google Maps and not Google Earth, right?

 

[Mixolydian]

What exactly is new about it? I have noticed a few small things and that's it.

 

[Mixolydian]

I noticed the font changes first. Hate it. And to add to the obstructive text, there's more of it.

Please, Google, tell me why you needed to make up a name for areas of my city that have never had names? Who sits around and comes up with this shit? There is seriously a 'neighborhood' name for like every group of twenty houses, even when they aren't even part of a subdivision or anything.

Chances are the neighborhoods always had names but just were never formally referred to as those names.

 

[notposting]

https://maps.google.com/help/maps/helloworld/desktop/preview/

How about just draw me a map and let me use it.
<--uses Bing maps anyway 😛

 

[Leros]

is this invite only?

You can request an invite. Took about a week for me to get it.

 

[lxskllr]

How about just draw me a map and let me use it.
<--uses Bing maps anyway 😛

I use OpenStreetMaps, and sketch my own map showing only the stuff I want to see. It's less cluttered, and commits the map to memory better than just looking at a generated sheet.