Agreed - people are going ballistic. It's actually a good thread - I've learned how to:
o Measure distances in google Maps (and put a nice marker on the screen)
o Get the Long Lat for any point on a map.
The thing is - I don't actually know why they are so upset, because they are, for the most part, not really calling out what their issues are, and the ones they have, seem kind of minor, like Missing a zoom bar.
Some of their rants are about things that exist (showing distance bars in Metric or Imperial, on the screen)
And some of them seem really, really niche: "Photo icons placed at the location of the photo overlaid on the map, and not in some useless "carousel" feature."
Some of them seem wrong, "Autocomplete not working" - sure works for me. To a spooky degree that makes me wonder how it knows from "St. R " to automatically fill out "St. Regis, Singapore" - I mean, yes, that's what I wanted, but seriously, WTF - how did you know?
Anyways, I'm guessing that their user interaction surveys have shown that nobody except the die-hard classic maps users will care. I wonder if there was a similar uproar when Apple decided to shut down aperture, and move to photos. Probably not, as all the people who cared had probably switched to lightroom a long, long time ago - and the ones left on aperture are probably going to be totally happy with Photos. (raises hand)
Some of their rants are about things that exist (showing distance bars in Metric or Imperial, on the screen)
And some of them seem really, really niche: "Photo icons placed at the location of the photo overlaid on the map, and not in some useless "carousel" feature."
Some of them seem wrong, "Autocomplete not working" - sure works for me. To a spooky degree that makes me wonder how it knows from "St. R " to automatically fill out "St. Regis, Singapore" - I mean, yes, that's what I wanted, but seriously, WTF - how did you know?
Anyways, I'm guessing that their user interaction surveys have shown that nobody except the die-hard classic maps users will care. I wonder if there was a similar uproar when Apple decided to shut down aperture, and move to photos. Probably not, as all the people who cared had probably switched to lightroom a long, long time ago - and the ones left on aperture are probably going to be totally happy with Photos. (raises hand)