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.