"Classic" Google Maps to disappear forever

[DaBigE]

You have to remember for engineers - the motto isn't "if it ain't broke don't fix it", it's actually "if it ain't broke, it don't have enough features yet"

Disagree. Engineers are usually the ones having to fix all the grandiose ideas initiated by someone else. I'd place the blame on sales people and marketing not doing their research.

[Truvelo]

It needs Microsoft to bring out a super dupe version of Bing Maps and then Google will be forced to respond with something decent

[US 41]

It's forcing me to use the new google maps. RIP Classic Google Maps. 

[vdeane]

[SignGeek101]

I remember seeing this in one of my engineering classes 

[rickmastfan67]

It's forcing me to use the new google maps. RIP Classic Google Maps. 

Still have the classic here for now.

[ajlynch91]

If Bing had anything close to resembling the street view that Google did, I would never use Google Maps for anything, that being said I'm going to sorely miss Classic Maps, I can't bring myself to use the new maps...

[Billy F 1988]

Google's just like YouTube. They don't give a crap about what you say to them, even if you told them to keep the classic version. They just flat out shunt you. Just nothing a bunch of low class bots and a handful of humans having a go at this crappy "new" version, which, by the way, isn't "new" in my book.

[Pete from Boston]

Google's just like YouTube. They don't give a crap about what you say to them, even if you told them to keep the classic version. They just flat out shunt you. Just nothing a bunch of low class bots and a handful of humans having a go at this crappy "new" version, which, by the way, isn't "new" in my book.

You realize that Google has owned YouTube for something like eight years, right?

[Dr Frankenstein]

I've haven't actually had an issue with dragging a route and adding waypoints with the new version in quite a while (though it did lack proper support for that in its first weeks). In fact, I used the "new" Google Maps to plan the entire Quebec City road meet last summer, and just saved the resulting URL for reference.

[Billy F 1988]

Google's just like YouTube. They don't give a crap about what you say to them, even if you told them to keep the classic version. They just flat out shunt you. Just nothing a bunch of low class bots and a handful of humans having a go at this crappy "new" version, which, by the way, isn't "new" in my book.

You realize that Google has owned YouTube for something like eight years, right?

Uh, I KNOW they do, not just realize they do. Realizing and knowing are two different things and I emphasize again, the "new" version isn't new to me.

[jakeroot]

Uh, I KNOW they do, not just realize they do.

Obligatory Scrubs gif:



sry m8, i do not understand

[algorerhythms]

"Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones" -- Donald Rumsfeld

[bugo]

It simply won't work on my computer in Firefox. I'm going to keep trying to use Classic Maps using the non-US domains, and when it completely quits working I'll switch to another map provider. What is a good alternative to Google? Mapquest? Bing?

[jakeroot]

It simply won't work on my computer in Firefox. I'm going to keep trying to use Classic Maps using the non-US domains, and when it completely quits working I'll switch to another map provider. What is a good alternative to Google? Mapquest? Bing?

Google is still the best. Don't kid yourself.

[bugo]

It simply won't work on my computer in Firefox. I'm going to keep trying to use Classic Maps using the non-US domains, and when it completely quits working I'll switch to another map provider. What is a good alternative to Google? Mapquest? Bing?

Google is still the best. Don't kid yourself.

It doesn't work on my fucking computer, son.

[SSOWorld]

your computer's too old then.

[bugo]

If it won't run on a 64 bit Windows 7 installation then there's something wrong.

[wxfree]

In that situation I'd use Bing for maps and get aerial photography and Street View through Google Earth.  I can use the new Google Maps, but until they make it suck less that's probably what I'll do.

[freebrickproductions]

Google Maps "Lite" actually works pretty well. The only things I don't like about it is that you can't default to satellite view and you can't view the old street view images. Other than that, it doesn't lag as much and loads things rather fast. If they implemented the ability to view old street view images or default the map view to satellite, I'd happily swap over to Google Maps Lite. Hell, when the old Google Maps disappears, I'll probably go to the "Lite" version.

[Brandon]

It simply won't work on my computer in Firefox. I'm going to keep trying to use Classic Maps using the non-US domains, and when it completely quits working I'll switch to another map provider. What is a good alternative to Google? Mapquest? Bing?

Google is still the best. Don't kid yourself.

My ass.  I've found Bing to be better at directions, and now at printing.

[jakeroot]

If it won't run on a 64 bit Windows 7 installation then there's something wrong.

Probably, yeah. Have you had a teenager look at it?

It simply won't work on my computer in Firefox. I'm going to keep trying to use Classic Maps using the non-US domains, and when it completely quits working I'll switch to another map provider. What is a good alternative to Google? Mapquest? Bing?

Google is still the best. Don't kid yourself.

My ass.  I've found Bing to be better at directions, and now at printing.

Better at directions as long as you can make out the roads. I've never seen such low quality maps.

[kkt]

"Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones" -- Donald Rumsfeld

Rumsfeld should have written Sir Humphrey's part in Yes, Minister.

[english si]

Rumsfeld should have written Sir Humphrey's part in Yes, Minister.

Sounds a lot more like Bernard explaining to the Minister.

Humpy would need at least twice that space to get his point across, with far longer sentences and little bits of Latin dropped in.

[Pete from Boston]

Google's just like YouTube. They don't give a crap about what you say to them, even if you told them to keep the classic version. They just flat out shunt you. Just nothing a bunch of low class bots and a handful of humans having a go at this crappy "new" version, which, by the way, isn't "new" in my book.

You realize that Google has owned YouTube for something like eight years, right?

Uh, I KNOW they do, not just realize they do.

My point is that Google isn't like YouTube, Google is YouTube.  From your post it sounded like you were comparing two different entities.