Google’s look, evolved

Re:Google’s look, evolved by kuschku on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @10:16PM (#10157070)

I (and all my friends) switched to here.com maps after Google has horribly old (2005) data, has a horrible UI, and is generally unusable. In many cities in my region whole districts are completely missing from the maps[1], MapMaker is not available, and in general it’s just a huge mess.

Even worse: It loads so slowly (compared to here.com or bing.com or openstreetmap.org) that sometimes it takes several minutes to load an area while competitors load instantly.

And then there are cities where Google tried to add the new 3D buildings, but the result is so horrible that the satellite view is not usable anymore, for example Vienna [2]

[1]: Compare https://goo.gl/maps/e4awg https://www.here.com/?map=54.35326,10.0714,17,satellite [2]: https://goo.gl/maps/LUHiN

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Re:Google’s look, evolved by plonh on Wednesday September 02, 2015 @12:41AM (#10157464)

Apropros of the other Google thread today, the here.com link completely fails: it shows an full screen ad for the mobile app, with no way to get to the map.

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Re:Google’s look, evolved by kuschku on Wednesday September 02, 2015 @10:09AM (#10159217)

For me it works just fine.

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Re:Google’s look, evolved by hellbanner on Wednesday September 02, 2015 @11:15AM (#10159769)

Thanks for the alternative!!

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