Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up

Re:Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up by abruzzi on Friday June 29, 2018 @12:50PM (#17425728)

however google maps does this to me all the time too. But is happens in the opposite direction. I have the map opened to a place on the other side of the planet, and cant find the landmark I'm looking for manually, so I punt and search for the name of the land mark and it takes me back to a local map and shows me close (usually not very close) names locally.

My personal feeling is the extents of the map window should be immutable and sacrosanct.

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Re:Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up by dylan-m on Friday June 29, 2018 @02:27PM (#17426516)

I think some video games have this solved quite nicely: for an offscreen point of interest, show an indicator at the edge of the screen. That way someone knows that it's there, and they can click to jump to it (or pan all the way there if they'd like). Definitely, never take away control of the map.

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Re:Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up by athenot on Friday June 29, 2018 @02:24PM (#17426487)

Furthermore, Google insists on using the location of my VPN entrypoint onto the internet instead of my location (despite repeated attempts at telling it where I am). Apple Maps seems to get where I am regardless of the VPN.

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