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by thrownaway2424 4371 days ago
How is it annoying? When I load maps.google.com in Chrome on desktop, the link for "traffic" is shown by default. All you have to do is click once to turn it on.

On mobile, it's the very first option in the drawer, and if you turn it on it stays on until you turn if off again.
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kin 4371 days ago
It's annoying because it's not always present.

Ex: I look up my favorite pizza place and it's 15 minutes away. Now I want to see traffic. How? It's impossible to view both.

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arnorhs 4371 days ago
It is always present. From the moment you see an overview of possible routes, in the route overview and in the TBT nav.

If you're not seeing traffic all the time, it either means:

- there's no congestion at all in the route that you picked

- you have a different version of maps than the latest one in the play store

- you didn't select driving directions, but either bus, walking, biking or something else.

- traffic for your location/city is simply not supported.

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kin 4371 days ago
Sorry I mean the web version. It really is impossible to do both.

On mobile? I think it's even worse. Look up your nearest favorite chain and it zooms in on what it believes is the one you're looking for. What if it's not? There's a tiny 3 lines in the search bar that I apparently have to click to list all locations.

And anytime I snap to location? It zooms in. Really I'd love to just write the few lines of code it takes to toggle between current zoom level and default zoom level when snapping to location.

And they've stripped features. New UI is fine but at least keep old features nestled around somewhere. I used to be able to look up directions and then nestled in settings view "gas stations along the way". It's near impossible to do that now.

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