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Unimprovement
Saturday, 19 May 2007 11:43I last used Google Maps for Mother's Day to get to a country club in Burien. I like the way maps render on Google Maps better than the ones on Yahoo or Mapquest because the streets are easier to see with my declining vision. I also liked the print feature, because you could print up your directions AND a decent-sized map for your trip.
Not anymore.
Sometime between Mother's Day and now, the Google Maps team thought it was a better idea to make the directions themselves more prevalent in the printout. Now instead of getting a navigable map, I get thumbnails. "Here's a closeup of your start point, your end point, and a teeny little map for your overview -- all to make your printout more streamlined! You can even remove the thumbnails if you want!" Yeah, but what about the BIG map? "Oh, that.. we're all under 30 and don't actually go anywhere because the Googleplex provides for our every need. We live at work."
Nice work, Google.
Not anymore.
Sometime between Mother's Day and now, the Google Maps team thought it was a better idea to make the directions themselves more prevalent in the printout. Now instead of getting a navigable map, I get thumbnails. "Here's a closeup of your start point, your end point, and a teeny little map for your overview -- all to make your printout more streamlined! You can even remove the thumbnails if you want!" Yeah, but what about the BIG map? "Oh, that.. we're all under 30 and don't actually go anywhere because the Googleplex provides for our every need. We live at work."
Nice work, Google.
