Great so this is the way a good product becomes AWFUL.<p>- Classic maps is great on all devices New Maps sucks when there is a lower power CPU? Slow and laggy<p>- Why is there a Honking big Search box Hiding my map<p>- AutoZoom that randomly decides that a "drag action' is a Zoom<p>- Where are my previous searches? Why do they show up at-Most one at a time?<p>-- On and on<p>This is truly a step backwards.
I'd really like to see some basic navigation fixed first. For example, I was visiting Paris last week and you cannot get directions from airport (CDG) to any street address in the city for public transit. Similar to other route reachable via RER trains (ex. Disneyland Park). I'm sure Maps are great in USA, but they turned out to be quite useless for simple tour in one of the world's major cities.<p>And I'm not talking about departure/arrival times here. Just basic routing from point A to point B.
My real complaint with google maps of late is how terribly slow they've been. I've tried on an android phone, an osx laptop, a windows desktop, all at different locations. The common theme is the abysmally slow load time. Bing maps has loaded quickly, as has open streetmap.<p>I'm not sure what's going on with their setup, but that's my only real complaint.
I am curious if this will affect maps built using the API. I have a few sites and apps using the API that were created a number of years ago.<p>Haven't been able to find any comments that mention the API, so I'm hopeful it will be a transparent switch.
I guess I'm among the minority of people who use google maps just to look up directions, see traffic, and look up nearby businesses, and that's enough for me. The one feature I don't see though is the ability do traffic estimations which was convenient.<p>I know the team will get there, I cannot fully support their decision to disable old maps but I can understand it. Most of flame in that thread is unfortunate and unnecessary and reminds me of this comic where in the first panel someone introduces a new feature, the customer complains and moans, and say the first version was good enough, then the next panel they introduce yet another version and it's the same behavior as the first panel, they want the one that is just about to get taken from them, always and forever.