"New improved" Google Maps

[+Tardis]

For those who have recently had the "new improved" Google Maps thrust upon them, & who preferred using the old "classic" interface accessible from https://www.maps.google.com/?output=classic but have discovered that the link to "classic" mode now merely takes them to a "lite" mode of the "new improved" interface, try the following link: https://www.google.com/lochp. It will still display the "this version is updating soon" message but works for now.

 

If you're really annoyed by this enforced change, there is an online petition to bring back classic maps running at https://www.change.org/p/larry-page-ceo-google-tell-google-bring-back-classic-google-maps

[+duncanhoyle]

Thankyou so much for that link. I've signed the petition and also given feedback on their forum and through the maps, although I'm sure they'll just ignore it and assume that we're all wrong

[+duncanhoyle]

By the way - your link worked fine for me, although I had to delete the trailing . - https://www.google.com/lochp

[+captnemo]

Thankyou so much for that link. I've signed the petition and also given feedback on their forum and through the maps, although I'm sure they'll just ignore it and assume that we're all wrong

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[+Viajero Perdido]

I dealt with it by simply switching to OpenStreetMap and family (incl. OpenCycleMap, Thunderforest, etc.)

 

On my up-to-date Firefox browser, Google Maps is excruciatingly slow, totally unusable. Got a few minutes to wait for a map to show up? Not me, bye.

 

Bonus, you can edit OSM if you'd like to, say, highlight a useful trail to your cache. Shows up on the cache page.

[knowschad]

I dealt with it by simply switching to OpenStreetMap and family (incl. OpenCycleMap, Thunderforest, etc.)

 

On my up-to-date Firefox browser, Google Maps is excruciatingly slow, totally unusable. Got a few minutes to wait for a map to show up? Not me, bye.

 

Bonus, you can edit OSM if you'd like to, say, highlight a useful trail to your cache. Shows up on the cache page.

 

There are a number of maps that I prefer to the newest Google maps, but when you search for something that refers to a map, Google maps is what comes up. Makes it pretty tough to get away from. Now, I suppose I could switch to Live! search and get Microsoft's maps, but I do like using Google for my search engine.

 

(this is not about the Geocaching Google maps, which are still "classic" style)

[+Tardis]

Bonus, you can edit OSM if you'd like to, say, highlight a useful trail to your cache. Shows up on the cache page.

Weirdly I have literally _just_ done that, using a GPX track dump to add a walking track that went right past a cache of ours. Though you do lose a lot moving from Google to OSM, particularly the satellite/earth view & streetview, both of which I use extensively in pre-trip planning. One of the first annoyances I noted with streetview was that the old red "teardrop" marking current coordinates was replaced by an almost invisible "X".

[+gpsblake]

Groundspeak still uses the classic maps for it's geocaching map, at least for me. I really hope they don't have to use the "new" maps when google completely phases out the classic maps.

[cezanne]

On my up-to-date Firefox browser, Google Maps is excruciatingly slow, totally unusable. Got a few minutes to wait for a map to show up? Not me, bye.

 

For me it is not slow. However the street labels disappear after around 15 seconds which is very annoying. This does not happen in other browsers and it also does not happen for the classic version linked to above.

[knowschad]

On my up-to-date Firefox browser, Google Maps is excruciatingly slow, totally unusable. Got a few minutes to wait for a map to show up? Not me, bye.

 

For me it is not slow. However the street labels disappear after around 15 seconds which is very annoying. This does not happen in other browsers and it also does not happen for the classic version linked to above.

 

Odd... I don't see that at all! Not in map mode, nor in Earth mode. I do agree with Viajero Perdido though that they are too slow.

[+speakers-corner]

For those who have recently had the "new improved" Google Maps thrust upon them, & who preferred using the old "classic" interface accessible from https://www.maps.google.com/?output=classic but have discovered that the link to "classic" mode now merely takes them to a "lite" mode of the "new improved" interface, try the following link: https://www.google.com/lochp. It will still display the "this version is updating soon" message but works for now.

 

If you're really annoyed by this enforced change, there is an online petition to bring back classic maps running at https://www.change.org/p/larry-page-ceo-google-tell-google-bring-back-classic-google-maps

Thanks for the link, now I can plan more than just the 10 stops you get with the new maps.