Google maps seem to have altered their presentation and I am finding the new Google maps absolutely awful now. Does anyone have any suggestions for an alternative to Google Maps please?
I don't know what they have done but the colour is terrible and it seems to be much slower and appears to lack detail that was there before.
So typical when someone alters their website. Often for the worse.
Cuppa said
07:44 AM Dec 19, 2023
I think the colours may be a bit paler than in the past, I'm not sure, but if so they have been as they are now for quite a while. I certainly don't have any performance issues (no slowness) & the detail is as good as always when zooming in. The following screenshots are a couple of random ones from Melbourne. Are these like you are seeing?
This is on a Mac, via my web browser (Brave). On my phone , using the Google Maps app it is similar, but the contrast is a little better, & just as fast.
If yours is running slow I wonder if it may be browser related & clearing the cache or trying a different browser might bring animprovement to speed??
Having used the inbuilt GPS navigator in our new (to us) car recently (Garmin Suzuki 2013) I find google maps to be far superior.
Sixmaps for NSW aerial photos, each State has it's own public available photos which make Google maps look like a joke.
(Sixmaps)
(Google)
Maps.me is handy.
Toiletmap.gov.au will prevent embarrassing situations, so to speak!
Meredith said
08:01 PM Dec 20, 2023
If you google 'alternatives to Google Maps' you will get a list of apps you could try. Personally though I think all of them are inferior to google maps in some way. You may just have to get used to the new colour scheme, or hope that google listens to complaints and gives an option for the old colour scheme.
Radar said
08:33 PM Dec 20, 2023
rmoor wrote:
Google maps seem to have altered their presentation and I am finding the new Google maps absolutely awful now. Does anyone have any suggestions for an alternative to Google Maps please?
I don't know what they have done but the colour is terrible and it seems to be much slower and appears to lack detail that was there before.
So typical when someone alters their website. Often for the worse.
Hi, with our travels in Australia including our tours to UK and Europe we have had good success with Osmand Mapping.
Dick0 said
10:05 PM Dec 20, 2023
Nothing adverse about this App.
I still consider it to be the best irrespective of the presentation.
Use it in conjunction with WikiCamps with accurate results.
Sure, it could be better with speed camera warnings and unsealed roads avoidance, but that will come in time I guess.
Whenarewethere said
09:16 PM Dec 22, 2023
An Apple Maps Image Collection vehicle drove past me today photographing the street. I have no idea what Apple has as far as maps.
I had noticed a change but it did not fluster me at all.
A few years ago, a work colleague sent me a screenshot from Street View of me walking on the footpath near my place of work, face suitably blurred of course. I went to show my daughter, a couple of years later. An updated round of Street View photos were then published. However, I was also in the newer Street View photos in a different position near my old office. No, I did not spend all my time on the streets.
Google maps seem to have altered their presentation and I am finding the new Google maps absolutely awful now.
Does anyone have any suggestions for an alternative to Google Maps please?
I don't know what they have done but the colour is terrible and it seems to be much slower and appears to lack detail that was there before.
So typical when someone alters their website. Often for the worse.
I think the colours may be a bit paler than in the past, I'm not sure, but if so they have been as they are now for quite a while. I certainly don't have any performance issues (no slowness) & the detail is as good as always when zooming in. The following screenshots are a couple of random ones from Melbourne. Are these like you are seeing?
This is on a Mac, via my web browser (Brave). On my phone , using the Google Maps app it is similar, but the contrast is a little better, & just as fast.
If yours is running slow I wonder if it may be browser related & clearing the cache or trying a different browser might bring animprovement to speed??
Having used the inbuilt GPS navigator in our new (to us) car recently (Garmin Suzuki 2013) I find google maps to be far superior.
Sixmaps for NSW aerial photos, each State has it's own public available photos which make Google maps look like a joke.
(Sixmaps)
(Google)
Maps.me is handy.
Toiletmap.gov.au will prevent embarrassing situations, so to speak!
Hi, with our travels in Australia including our tours to UK and Europe we have had good success with Osmand Mapping.
Nothing adverse about this App.
I still consider it to be the best irrespective of the presentation.
Use it in conjunction with WikiCamps with accurate results.
Sure, it could be better with speed camera warnings and unsealed roads avoidance, but that will come in time I guess.
An Apple Maps Image Collection vehicle drove past me today photographing the street. I have no idea what Apple has as far as maps.
I had noticed a change but it did not fluster me at all.
A few years ago, a work colleague sent me a screenshot from Street View of me walking on the footpath near my place of work, face suitably blurred of course. I went to show my daughter, a couple of years later. An updated round of Street View photos were then published. However, I was also in the newer Street View photos in a different position near my old office. No, I did not spend all my time on the streets.