How to still access Classic Google Maps (as of 06/26/15)

[Purgatory On Wheels]

ClassyGMap needs to offer more stops and drag-to-reroute in order to be fully useful to me.

[Rothman]

ClassyGMap needs to offer more stops and drag-to-reroute in order to be fully useful to me.

I'd imagine that this has been a perpetual demand from this group.  Google's continuing and stubborn resistance to county lines is also frustrating -- especially since when you Google a county they obviously have the vector sets in there.

[Michael]

Oh, boy.  The ClassyGMap page has been removed.  There's a message stating "This page has been removed at the request of Google, because it potentially violates the Maps API Terms of Service. Sorry."  For now, you can still download the HTML file from the ClassyGMap GitHub page.  Thankfully, it was designed to be a single portable HTML file.

[kkt]

 

[jakeroot]

I tried ClassyGMap before it was taken down, but I thought it was, aesthetically, a disaster...hated using it. I would imagine that Google has gotten their shit together by now, so that those with less-than-able computers can use the new Maps.

[jeffandnicole]

On any device I've used lately, Google Maps works fine.  I forgot this was even an issue.  At this point, it's just people not wanting to move forward.  Yes, some features of the new Google Maps still irk me, but I've figured out how to use them or just deal without them.

[US 41]

Oh, boy.  The ClassyGMap page has been removed.  There's a message stating "This page has been removed at the request of Google, because it potentially violates the Maps API Terms of Service. Sorry."  For now, you can still download the HTML file from the ClassyGMap GitHub page.  Thankfully, it was designed to be a single portable HTML file.

I got the same thing last night. What a bummer. I used ClassyGMap a lot.

[kkt]

But the new Google Maps isn't forward.  It's downward, down the drain.

The aesthetics may not have been wonderful, but ClassyGMap was very functional, much more usable than new Google Maps.

[Rothman]

*sigh*

I really wish they had turn-by-turn maps for the web edition of Google Maps.

[vdeane]

The one thing I'm hoping for is an increase in the number of shaping points in the driving directions.  It's annoying to have to split trips up.  I might try MapQuest again (which allows unlimited points, but annoyingly doesn't let you drag destinations).

[Rothman]

The one thing I'm hoping for is an increase in the number of shaping points in the driving directions.  It's annoying to have to split trips up.  I might try MapQuest again (which allows unlimited points, but annoyingly doesn't let you drag destinations).

The Fuccillo-size huge problem with MapQuest, even though they've updated their interface, is that they have perennially cheaped out on their vector set.  I sent them correction after correction and then just gave up on it.  They have lines where there are no roads and no lines where there are roads. 

That said, if MapQuest ever cleans up their act back to where it once was a few years ago, I'd totally go back to it.

[vdeane]

MapQuest might be debating whether to just dump their own data and use OSM data exclusively.  There's already an OSM data version.

[seicer]

A FYI, you can turn off labels in Google Maps. More frustrating is that the 3D layer is enabled every time, rendering the aerials extremely slow. Why do you need 3D in rural areas? Or in most urban areas?

[Thunderbyrd316]

As of today, this link (which I found yesterday) still works for me.
Link: http://www.rkkda.com/tmp/newmap.html

[US 41]

As of today, this link (which I found yesterday) still works for me.
Link: http://www.rkkda.com/tmp/newmap.html

I imagine there are several other links that still access the ClassyGMap. Unfortunately Google will find these links and shut them down too, just like they did months ago with the original Classic Google Maps.