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0 pointsgitgud7y ago0 comments

Really? Google Maps works pretty well on Android, [1] when you zoom in, street names pop up where possible...

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Sometimes they do. I second this entire complaining thread; Google Maps really bad as a map. It only works well as a search results display and navigation frontend.

tomaskafka7y ago

That's what Google maps are - they only care about places where you spend dollars (good luck finding eg. kid playgrounds).

Here's an app of a company I worked for, that cares about non-shopping use cases: https://windymaps.com/app

onemoresoop7y ago

I wonder if this done on purpose or ignored for the reasons you just mentioned

Sean17087y ago

Except when they dont (image shamelessly stolen from et-al): https://imgur.com/a/hCo3V2X

Maybe they would appear if you zoomed in even further, but at that point the map would be pretty useless.

gitgudOP7y ago

So strange... What kind of unpredictable algorithm is this!

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