+edscott Posted March 12, 2012 Posted March 12, 2012 This new map is SO slow. Slow doesn't really describe it properly. Slow indicates that it will eventually be there. My experience, except on one single solitary attempt about a week ago, is that they never load completely, but give a checkerboard pattern covering about 50% of the desired area. We might as well say GC.Com no longer offers maps. I have a relatively fast machine (OSX 10.6.8) and a DSL line. The problem is most certainly at their end, yet I see no effort to fix it or even to indicate that a fix is coming.
+jendap_CZ Posted March 14, 2012 Posted March 14, 2012 Hi, new maps don´t have the only one betterment compared to google maps. There are slower with a lot bugs (cache identification, details portraying), no satelite shots... There are not usable... "Thank you" for this progress :-(
+BraillerCD Posted April 1, 2012 Posted April 1, 2012 New maps work very poorly or not at all on my IPhone.
+ndimmick Posted April 3, 2012 Posted April 3, 2012 The MapQuest Aerial tiles refuse to load consistently for me. The worst part is, the tile I most want to see is almost always blank. I'm running Mac OS 10.6.8, Chrome 18.0.1025.142, Safari 5.1.5 (6534.55.3), and Firefox 11.0. I never had any trouble with the Google Maps.
+chamois-shimi & special K Posted April 4, 2012 Posted April 4, 2012 The new maps make my iTouch completely worthless for caching. Back to the ol' annoying prep work before setting out to cache days, yay. Not. There are things that would still make it work -- have the Bing birds-eye view images available the way the google satellite view was (I mean on the individual cache page, via the old "dynamic map" type thing, since the full-size all-caches maps don't load for BEANS), OR someone influential go pound on Google Earth's door and make them change the iPod app so it doesn't take input coordinates and transfer them to the nearest street address (USELESS!!!), OR someone make the Bing maps link from the cache page actually work on the iPod! It just defaults to someplace in Redmond, WA (hah hah) and doesn't show the cache it was linked from. Drives me nuts.
+power69 Posted April 5, 2012 Posted April 5, 2012 It just defaults to someplace in Redmond, WA (hah hah) and doesn't show the cache it was linked from. Drives me nuts. I think some guy by the name of gates might have something to do with that since microsoft owns bing.
+chamois-shimi & special K Posted April 6, 2012 Posted April 6, 2012 (edited) It just defaults to someplace in Redmond, WA (hah hah) and doesn't show the cache it was linked from. Drives me nuts. I think some guy by the name of gates might have something to do with that since microsoft owns bing. Oddly enough... but that doesn't explain why it won't show the cache on my iPod's Safari, when the link does just fine on my desktop pc. grump. (edited to rid post of smiley, a P is NOT a happy face!) Edited April 6, 2012 by chamois-shimi & special K
+flowcatie Posted April 14, 2012 Posted April 14, 2012 First, I totally understand Geocaching.com's choice to let GoogleMaps go, BUT: For Cachers outside of the US (in this case Germany) MapQuest and OpenStreetMap are no sufficient surrogates for GoogleMaps !! It creates more difficulties than accessibility possibilities. And quite frankly, it helps to stop me from going out and hunting Geocaches.... As a premium member I would love to know how much of my fee would be usable for a further application of GoogleMaps. Please, Geocaching.com, try to emphasize the "Caching-Needs" of your users outside of the US... Happy Hunting (for those who are not "scared" of the new map system...)
jholly Posted April 14, 2012 Posted April 14, 2012 First, I totally understand Geocaching.com's choice to let GoogleMaps go, BUT: For Cachers outside of the US (in this case Germany) MapQuest and OpenStreetMap are no sufficient surrogates for GoogleMaps !! It creates more difficulties than accessibility possibilities. And quite frankly, it helps to stop me from going out and hunting Geocaches.... As a premium member I would love to know how much of my fee would be usable for a further application of GoogleMaps. Please, Geocaching.com, try to emphasize the "Caching-Needs" of your users outside of the US... Happy Hunting (for those who are not "scared" of the new map system...) I guess you didn't see the memo.
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