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Comment by davidw | Hacker News Reader

Some other things:

* Start in San Francisco by typing San Francisco. It still manages to find that city. Do 'directions' and type in Eugene, OR, USA - my home town, which is a fairly straightforward drive north. It can't find it and gives you bad results.

* THEY KILLED TERRAIN MODE! This was a super-useful feature that I still use on my computer, but can no longer access on my mobile devices.

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Terrain mode is still there, you just have to type Terrain in the search bar, and it'll switch the view. Then X out of the search to return to the normal map view. Otherwise, if you click the input box, you should get a terrain button in one of the many expanding boxes.

I don't know who came up with the above concept for switching modes, but it's absolutely awful.

In mobile, putting 'Terrain' in the search bar gets me "no results for Terrain".

The gradual disappearance of the terrain mode is ironic, given how their ads always seem to show happy young people on outdoor adventures...

Are you talking web or mobile? The web one found Eugene, OR just fine for me...

It finds it ok searching for it, but when you put it as a destination from San Francisco, in the little box, it chokes.

Works fine for me, and it has Eugene as an option after typing only the first few characters.

Here's what I get. Ends up somewhere in the Central Valley:

https://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=San+Francisco,+CA&daddr=E...

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