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Re:With 'The Machine,' HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Co... by eropple on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @03:32PM (#7879968)
Didn't that disappear in some recent version? I had to use some special keyword search term to make that happen in the newest Maps.
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Re:With 'The Machine,' HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Co... by scott_karana on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @03:49PM (#7880053)
It did disappear. And fortunately, they've added it back again, in yet another UX interaction.

https://support.google.com/gmm/answer/3273567?hl=en

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Re:With 'The Machine,' HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Co... by magicalist on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @04:25PM (#7880221)
that's the interaction groby_b just described
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Re:With 'The Machine,' HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Co... by mjcohen on Thursday June 12, 2014 @01:11AM (#7881906)
However "You can move and zoom in or out on your saved map, but you can’t search or get directions on it."

Reduced the utility considerably imho.

Both Navigon and Co-Pilot (on Android) can store the entire U.S. in about 1.5 GB.

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