Google Maps just fucking SUCKS now

[Scott5114]

These days Google seems to be consistently rating roads [adjective] than I would expect under that system

You unfortunately seem to have omitted the single word in this sentence that is critical to understanding the rest of your post.

[vdeane]

These days Google seems to be consistently rating roads [adjective] than I would expect under that system

You unfortunately seem to have omitted the single word in this sentence that is critical to understanding the rest of your post.

Must have gotten lost in the many revisions while I tried to formulate everything.  They rate things better than I would expect.  Travel conditions that used to be reported as red with spots of mauve now seem to show as yellow with spots of red.  It feels like every day I'll say something along the lines of "no, Google, this isn't yellow (or red, or even green!)".

[Rothman]

I know it'll never happen now, but my kingdom for Google Timeline to be restored to the web, rather than just localized on our phones...

[jakeroot]

Yesterday I leaned that the web version of Google Earth has gotten a LOT more capable than it used to be, to the point where it can load KML files (which I haven't tested) and view historical imagery (which I did and is why it's now one of my bookmarks).

They've made a lot of changes to Google Earth Web over the past 6 months or so. It's the only Google software that has actually improved in recent years!

Many of these Google Earth website changes were also made to Google Earth apps on the phones and tablets. The historic imagery slider is now available on the mobile apps, and that's a feature I used constantly on the desktop version.

[JREwing78]

Honestly, I liked the old way better.  It gave me a consistent sense of what to expect.  The new way doesn't.  If the Northway is anything but green and I take my usual route home, do I still get home in time for the news?  It's a gamble now.  Used to be anything but mauve was safe, but not any more.

It's certainly made harder my decision making for when to bail on the tollways around Chicago. It also feels like it's slow to provide proper warning on when I'm approaching congestion. There's only so many alternative routes, and some of them I need to know 10-15 minutes in advance if I need to use them. I can't keep tearing my attention away to futz with the map to get it to warn me of the slowdown!

A 2nd E-W tollway option south of and parallel to I-80 would be immensely helpful in that regard. 

[1995hoo]

For years, if I've opened a new browser tab on my PC (using Firefox) and then opened Google Maps, it's defaulted to roughly the area where I live. Not necessarily centered on my house, which is fine, but overall this part of Fairfax County.

Late last week, I spent some time looking at San Francisco on Google Maps in connection with sending an e-mail to my mother about a trip she has planned for a tour that will begin and end in that city. So now this week when I open Google Maps on my PC, it defaults to showing me San Francisco.

Anyone know what's causing that and how to fix it (short of purging all cookies)?

[hotdogPi]

If you zoom in to the eastern end of I-395 in Florida, you'll see a label for Exit 836. That's supposed to be the route number, not the exit number.

Getting directions involving this spot doesn't give the error.

[jmacswimmer]

If you zoom in to the eastern end of I-395 in Florida, you'll see a label for Exit 836. That's supposed to be the route number, not the exit number.

Getting directions involving this spot doesn't give the error.

The access road connecting I-75 to Southwest Florida Int'l Airport has a similar error - the unnumbered exit from the access road to Lee County route 885 is mistakenly labeled exit 885.