My biggest gripe with Google Maps is when I pan to a specific area, hundreds, or even thousands of miles from my current location, then search for something like “restaurants” and it pans me back home and searches there, so I then have to go find my distant location again and click the search here button.
If this is an intentional choice, all in an effort to show me more local ads… ugh. I really hope this isn’t the case.
Google Maps makes it really hard to explore your travel destination, or I am holding it wrong. That and the lack of weather integration are my main issues with it.
The author states that MPA are not a solution for everything. Sure google maps don’t fit the MPA model but I’ve seen a lot of projects that would be much better using current browser features instead of react.
Which converts your waypoints into addresses and then on load tries to find those addresses. The result is utterly unusable in a remote setting like a forest service or BLM roads.
Being able to come back to a webpage with previous directions? I think it would be glorious.