yxza

+5

Couldn't have said it better! Those new maps suck big time!!! Google Maps had a lot more detailed info on walking paths through parks or forests, not to mention the aerial views and topo maps. The new map is way too slow, it takes ages to refresh when you zoom in on a point (which basically you don't need to do anymore since there is no detail anyway)... And I've tried this at home on my computer, I really don't want to know how long it'll take on my iPhone when I'm outdoors... I'm sorry to say this, but this was a downdate rather than an update. It's been asked already, I know: wouldn't it be possible to make the use of Google Maps a premium member only feature? +5

From the Huffington Post: "According to Apple Insider, the company says the charge will only affect .35% of users as websites won't be charged until they get 25,000 Google Maps clicks in one 24-hour period. After they've reached this quota, businesses will be charged $4 per 1,000 clicks according to BBC News." So, if my math serves me right, according to Groundspeak's estimate of 2,000,000 hits per day, we're talking about $8,000 per day in fees to Google, or approaching $3,000,000 per year. Only Groundspeak knows the number of premium members, but they tell us there are over 5 million registered cachers. If you assume only 10% are premium members (high? low?), you would be talking about a $6.00 increase per year to cover the cost of the Google service. I'd pay it. Of course, I would think that there would be ways to greatly limit that number of hits by changing the default, only giving Google Maps to premium members, etc. This, this, and this!!! A thousand times, this!!! There are so many other solutions rather than rolling out this turd of an update. Up the Premium cost $5 and only allow Premium members to access Google Maps, for one. This OSM garbage is terrible. From a Wikipedia article on CloudMade: "CloudMade recorded a loss for 2008 of £1,426,585, with a loss for 2009 of a further £2,149,259. On October 5, 2010, OpenStreetMap founder and CloudMade cofounder Steve Coast resigned from all positions within the company. In November, Steve announced that he had accepted a position as Principal Architect at Microsoft's Bing Mobile." Looks like we just jumped onto a sinking ship with both feet. Please give us the opportunity to choose to pay for a superior product. +5

From the Huffington Post: "According to Apple Insider, the company says the charge will only affect .35% of users as websites won't be charged until they get 25,000 Google Maps clicks in one 24-hour period. After they've reached this quota, businesses will be charged $4 per 1,000 clicks according to BBC News." So, if my math serves me right, according to Groundspeak's estimate of 2,000,000 hits per day, we're talking about $8,000 per day in fees to Google, or approaching $3,000,000 per year. Only Groundspeak knows the number of premium members, but they tell us there are over 5 million registered cachers. If you assume only 10% are premium members (high? low?), you would be talking about a $6.00 increase per year to cover the cost of the Google service. I'd pay it. Of course, I would think that there would be ways to greatly limit that number of hits by changing the default, only giving Google Maps to premium members, etc. I agree +4

more to the point, what is the premium membership actually paying for at the moment? all we've had recently is features removed and replaced with inferior solutions. here's an idea, let premium members have access to google maps, and non-premium members can have access to the poor-mans maps. I do wonder about that for a long time. my membership is due soon and right now I feel my 30 bucks is paying for Groudspeak's wonderful benefit plans for their workers and high rent (Seattle) instead of the services I really paying for. Yup, got a point there judge! +4

Hello from Sweden, I can understand that the cost of using Google Maps could be a bit too much. But give us decent other maps instead. I'm not interested in looking att greyed out areas of maps even if they are Open. Anyone knows of alternative sites to use instead of Geocaching.com? Naw! Thought so. They've got us by the .... That includes girls, whatever they are gotten by :-) Regards YXZA

Hello, this morning I created a Pocket Query and eventually downloaded it to my iPhone. I also examined the PQ on the map at Geocaching.com. Every cache in my PQ was flagged with a small "bubble" with a flash. Thought nothing about it and went out for a round. When I returned home and wanted to see the result of my trip, all the PQ "bubbles" were still there and I can't get rid of them. They make quite a clutter on the map. What am I missing? How do I get the map back to "normal"? Regards yxza