Google maps......what went wrong?

Google maps......what went wrong?

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Upatdawn

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2,182 posts

147 months

Tuesday 8th July 2014
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The "new" version is crap, can i get the old one back?

vixen1700

22,669 posts

269 months

Tuesday 8th July 2014
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Yep, click on the question mark at the bottom and you get the option to get the old one back. smile

Upatdawn

Original Poster:

2,182 posts

147 months

Tuesday 8th July 2014
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thank eee kindly

AmitG

3,272 posts

159 months

Tuesday 8th July 2014
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vixen1700 said:
Yep, click on the question mark at the bottom and you get the option to get the old one back. smile
Thanks for that, it was driving me nuts.


MarshPhantom

9,658 posts

136 months

Tuesday 8th July 2014
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Me too, cheers.

audi321

5,156 posts

212 months

Tuesday 8th July 2014
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I get the classic view back, but then later when I go back onto it, I'm back to the nasty new version. Is there a way to permanently stay on the old version?

megaphone

10,694 posts

250 months

Wednesday 9th July 2014
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audi321 said:
I get the classic view back, but then later when I go back onto it, I'm back to the nasty new version. Is there a way to permanently stay on the old version?
It should give you the option to 'stay on classic view' and then ask you for your views and reasons, at which point I told them what I thought of the new Maps.

Shaoxter

4,048 posts

123 months

Wednesday 9th July 2014
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So what do people not like about the new Google maps? (apart from it being slow)

JustADay

196 posts

125 months

Wednesday 9th July 2014
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Shaoxter said:
So what do people not like about the new Google maps? (apart from it being slow)
It's only really the fact it's so slow for me. To be honest I can't see many differences between the two, but it's so slow as to almost be unusable.

Now if only there way a way to bring the proper road colours back...

SWH

1,261 posts

201 months

Wednesday 9th July 2014
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Thank you, the new version has been pissing me off for days smile

Bullett

10,873 posts

183 months

Wednesday 9th July 2014
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Didn't realise we could switch back.

I find it slow and more confusing to use. I'd probably get used to it but the previous version worked so well and clearly.

BonzoG

1,554 posts

213 months

Wednesday 9th July 2014
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You can't type "to:" in the new one to get directions. In the old one you could daisy-chain Postcode A to: B to: C to: D together to really rapidly create a route with stops in. Great in a transport office where it saves you having to fire up the routing system just to quickly check that something is doable. Edit: Seems you can now type "to" but only for one destination. So still less useful than the old one. rolleyes

Also the colours are screwed - the shades of yellow and white don't do justice to different road classifications. Maps should be functional not 'pretty'.

Edited by BonzoG on Wednesday 9th July 22:42

DaveJns

523 posts

143 months

Thursday 10th July 2014
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thank god for that, the new one was awful, so slow!

ajprice

27,317 posts

195 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2014
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As an Android newbie, who's route to work is going to be a roadworks clusterfk for 6 months starting in a couple of weeks, I've just tried to look for an alternative route and save it to my Google Maps on desktop so I can pick up the routes on my phone and have a sat nav to try out a few routes.


Aaaargh!!!!

How can they mess up the desktop maps and the phone app so much all at the same time?!? I think I've done it, but its not easy at all!

I found this to do it, Its using the mobile site, not the Maps app, but hopefully it will still work http://www.cnet.com/uk/how-to/how-to-access-my-map...

ZesPak

24,421 posts

195 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2014
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Guess they are still copying apple in some aspects hehe

All kidding aside, I found it horrendous as well, especially on slower machines.
The lack of multiple points in a route is also a big nono

However, I don't have any complaints about the apps, seems perfect to me, much better than the browser version?

Shaoxter

4,048 posts

123 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2014
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ZesPak said:
The lack of multiple points in a route is also a big nono
You can add multiple stops on a route. But the "+" to add another destination only appears once you've entered your start and finish points which is annoying. And also the "Directions" button doesn't appear straight away which is even more annoying.

ZesPak

24,421 posts

195 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2014
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Shaoxter said:
You can add multiple stops on a route. But the "+" to add another destination only appears once you've entered your start and finish points which is annoying. And also the "Directions" button doesn't appear straight away which is even more annoying.
Oh, good to know. I was quite sure it wasn't in there a number of months ago so I reverted to the old version.

BonzoG

1,554 posts

213 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2014
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On the old one you didn't even need to use the mouse/click a button - just type {address} to: {address} to: {address} to: {address} to: {address} and bang enter. Provided your addresses made sense, it would spit out a route straight away. Great feature, very quick to use, nerfed for no reason. frown

AmitG

3,272 posts

159 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2014
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I've actually started using Bing Maps because it's less screwy.