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Re:15 years ago, I helped design Google Maps by widerporst on Friday November 24, 2023 @04:07AM (#38401922)
>It tells me at a glance whether some area is a forest or just a field. Everything's just the same color in Google Maps.

Thank you. Everyone is talking about the color of the water or the roads, but this doesn't even bother me. But having all vegetation of any kind in the same color is an absolutely mind-bogglingly stupid decision. I can't be the only one who uses Maps to check the extents of a forest, for example. Or who uses shapes of different land uses to quickly orient oneself on a map.

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Re:15 years ago, I helped design Google Maps by andromeduck on Friday November 24, 2023 @06:58AM (#38403065)
Yeah, it's quite clear the designers have never lived outside lived of a car sewer. Every justification they've given thus far circle back to contrast for road features and while driving. It's peak car brain.
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Re:15 years ago, I helped design Google Maps by 4wsn on Friday November 24, 2023 @10:17AM (#38404817)
Car sewer? Car brain? Wow, didn't know we had zealotry and disparagement over _choice of transport_ of all things, generally a matter people have little choice in; it's determined by where you live and what sort of life you have.
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