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by frosted-flakes 1473 days ago
Here Maps is best out of those screenshots, but none of them are great.

What I can't stand about Google Maps is how it hides so much stuff if you're not zoomed in 1000x. The worst time was when I was trying to trace a 100km long logging road in northern British Columbia to get to a provincial camp site on a lake, but as soon as I zoomed out to get a broader picture it would disappear. Even though that was the only road within a 15 km radius. Nope, you can only see a 1km section at a time, and it's so thin and low-contrast that it's barely visible.

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Next time you need to map out roads like that, try Caltopo. For any _map_ use cases, things like Caltopo and Gaia are miles better. Google Maps is great for following directions they give you, or finding businesses and well known places, but it's a horrible map in any other context.