[jasonlfunk]

For what purposes is it less useful? If you aren't driving a car, you're unlikely to be traveling between cities.

[ars]

You could be planning a trip - deciding where to stay for example.

I personally have found the new google maps very frustrating and slow - I'm constantly zooming in and out. This article finally made me realize what I'm missing, and why I'm having so much trouble with it.

[dingaling]

Google Maps is used as the tiling layer for many non-navigation web apps: FlightRadar24 for example. Or those "find us" boxes on organisations' websites. In both those examples the map is used for geospatial orientation not navigation.

[brbsix]

A week or two ago I was trying to determine what cities were underneath a flight path. It was particularly difficult, whereas it wouldn't have posed a problem prior to these changes.

[teddyh]

There are other uses of maps than simply traveling. It can also teach you the relative locations of things.