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bmurphy1976

The 3D rendering is falling behind what competitors are offering. I also find the UI very convoluted, they are trying to do too much.

And OH MY GOD DO NOT CHANGE MY ZOOM LEVEL!! I spend so much time trying to find the area I want to search, enter Chinese restaurant and it expands to the entire freaking region. PLEASE STOP DOING THAT!!

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OH MY GOD I thought I was the only one who noticed that! I still prefer gmaps for most things, but the zoom out after I narrowed into exactly where I wanted is just infuriating UX. If I wanted that broad of a search I’d just… I dunno… go read a food blog.

> what competitors are offering

What's the competition out there? It seems like every year I scope out Apple Maps and Bing Maps and get disappointed and come back to Google Maps. Is there stuff out there that I'm just not aware of?

Google definitely has more features and better data, but they are not focused on providing a better experience and it shows:

https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/05/13/compared-apple-ma...

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