[转载]"The new Google Maps sucks" //原来不止我一个觉得新google map烂

lingyang

                                        I need to vent. Because I can't find a place where I can actually contact Google and inform them how badly they have screwed up their Maps with their latest edition.  I hate what Google has done to its Maps. I'm hoping someone at Google sees this, and begins the slow, painful process of arousing corporate awareness that they have screwed the pooch this time.
Now, let me interject here that Google deserves great praise and thanks for coming up with the idea of Street View in the first place. Especially since I cannot figure out how sending out a camera crew and recording and tech whizzes to drive all over the world can immediately boost Google's bottom line.


Before the "upgrade" to Google Maps, I spent many happy and fascinating hours traveling around the world, and visiting far off lands and cities I will probably never afford to really visit in my life. I especially enjoyed the Street View function, which allows you to see what's actually in a locale as if you were there yourself.


And Street View worked wonderfully in the previous edition of Maps. I would just move the roller wheel on my mouse to zoom in on the city or place I wanted to visit. If Street View was available, a little sort of stick guy icon appeared, and then I would zoom into Street View, and start looking around. If I wanted to see the intersection of Lincoln and Western in Chicago, I just zoomed right down to exactly where I wanted to be. I could type in an exact street address, and zoom down right to the very spot in the street in front of that address! It was awesome!



               
                                                       
In the new edition, I can no longer zoom down to Street View. I zoom down as far as is allowed, then I search for the damn new icon that opens a bunch of boxes at the bottom of the screen. Each box has a photo of a street scene, and a line from the box to where that scene is supposed to be on the map. Clicking on the box takes you, finally, to Street View. Usually, it's not exactly where I want to be. And, usually, there is not even a box that goes to the exact spot I want to go to.


What ever programmers or team of programmers designed the awkward, annoying, and nearly useless process of using Street View ought to be deprived of all pizza and soft drinks for a full year! This is NOT an improvement! This is so annoying, I started looking at other maps on the tubez to find a replacement for Google Maps. Certainly not the result Google was planning for, I imagine.  


And what's with all the new icons? Why do programmers think making new icons for functions, previously labeled in plain language, is an "improvement"? And then moving the icon or button or whatever animated gizmo they come up with, from the left side of the screen, to the right side, or from the top to the bottom, is an upgrade? Are these programmers seriously that deficient in normal human interaction that they don't realize people hate having to learn how to do the same old thing in a new way? Imagine if every few years, Ford and GM and Toyota and other automakers thought it would be cool to move the brake pedal to where the accelerator was, and the accelerator was replaced with a throttle where the console gear shift used to be? And to change gears, you now had to reach behind the seat and play the opening theme from Star Wars on a xylophone? Really, that's how irritating some of the "new and improved" software is. Software from BIG companies that should know better. (Are you listening, Microsoft? Your new version of Windows sucks mule turds!) Don't they do focus groups on this stuff before they release it to dazzle the general public with its bone-headedness?


Oh, by the way, Google, gmail suffers from this also. What's with having two left-pointing arrows within, like four of five inches of each other at the top of the screen. One arrow button is to return to the inbox, and the other arrow button is to reply to an email? The clown who came up with this design probably also had a hand in "upgrading" Google Maps, I bet.  What's wrong with just using the damn word "REPLY"? I actually worry now that we are raising an entire generation of dolts who can't read a single damn word of English, but are highly skilled at programming mega-computers to such up every little tiddle, jot, and dot you and I ever punch into a keyboard or cell phone.
And while I'm roiling on a roll here, let me implore someone, anyone, who has control over The Emperor's Death Star, to please direct the death beam on the headquarters of Adobe, and put that company out of my misery. I am totally fed-up with how FlashPlayer and Reader slow down my PC and render it almost inoperable, until I kill them off in Task Manager. And yes, I've searched for solutions to excess CPU cycles and what not, and I'm plain tired of tickling the innards of my PC to try and make Adobe's inescapable software run smoothly. A software company should be responsible for making its software run properly, not me.


7:21 PM PT: Thanks many times over to JeffW in the comments, who wrote that we can just toggle back to the old version. Jeff, I swear I could not find how to do so a few weeks ago!


For those who are also irritated with the new version of Google Maps, and want to switch back to the old version, I found the command by clicking on the little cog wheel near the bottom of the screen. If I recall, it was the left-most icon in the groups of icons at the bottom right. (I don't dare try to go back to the new version to confirm the location, or even that the icon is indeed the dreaded cog wheel. Bad things always seem to happen when I click on a little cog wheel icon.)


I will leave this diary up, for a few reasons. First, because I included a general rant about the inanity of most software "upgrades." Second, because hopefully someone with some actual responsibility for software development will read it, and begin to get an inkling that some people have reached the point they hold software engineers in about as low esteem as traffic engineers. And third, JeffW's comment is a wonderful example of how this community can get even the most mundane of problems quickly solved.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/06/1290161/-The-new-Google-Maps-sucks




                                       

staples

新google map是不好用，旧版好很多

andrew100

喜欢旧google map街景时的上下分屏，看街景时知道自己在哪，现在一进街景就不知道自己在哪了。。。

ysihaoy

楼主把一年前的帖子挖出来了，不知道这一年期间Google map有了多少次更新。

看来苹果又给楼主分红了

lingyang

更新了再多次还是不好用，群众的眼睛是雪亮的

定点

软件这种东西，界面最好别随便换，好多习惯性动作养成了，一时找不到很烦人。
autocad就做的很好，界面和命令10几年基本不动

rekinice

google map的实时交通比以前准确多了.

ysihaoy

定点 发表于 2015-4-1 20:47
软件这种东西，界面最好别随便换，好多习惯性动作养成了，一时找不到很烦人。
autocad就做的很好，界面和命 ...

所以这样不与时俱进的公司早晚会被淘汰

ysihaoy

lingyang 发表于 2015-3-31 21:35
更新了再多次还是不好用，群众的眼睛是雪亮的

有最近complain Google map的文章吗？

别拿一年前的说啊

lingyang

不用文章， 看看回复就行了， 呵呵，

nali

楼主是果粉，我也是。不过google maps做的算是很不错了。其他的地图应用和google maps的差距还是很大的

lingyang

nali 发表于 2015-4-1 21:37
楼主是果粉，我也是。不过google maps做的算是很不错了。其他的地图应用和google maps的差距还是很大的  ...

老map更好，

Venator

人家是垄断，用户意见不放在眼里

定点

ysihaoy 发表于 2015-4-1 22:02
所以这样不与时俱进的公司早晚会被淘汰

淘汰个jb，cad不但越做越好，还衍生出很多系列，界面指令都差不多

wzbear

比苹果地图好太多了已经

该用户不存在

Google现在允许你回到旧版了，好像在新版上有个链接，具体记不清了。

ysihaoy

定点 发表于 2015-4-1 22:54
淘汰个jb，cad不但越做越好，还衍生出很多系列，界面指令都差不多

对于喜欢爆粗口的，更会被淘汰

lingyang

该用户不存在 发表于 2015-4-2 08:11
Google现在允许你回到旧版了，好像在新版上有个链接，具体记不清了。

恩， 找了很久终于在一个小图标里面找到了。生活有回到原来的状态了

lingyang

wzbear 发表于 2015-4-2 08:09
比苹果地图好太多了已经

谷歌地图一直是第一，所以横向比较没意义。

和谷歌地图前一版比起来这个新版的确慢了很多。

symeteor

nokia here好太多了。。。可惜没有电脑板

smiledog

是啊 换了新的很不好操作