# A Google Map thing

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-google-map-thing/689095>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 23, 2014, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-google-map-thing/689095 "2014-05-23T15:46:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2014, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-google-map-thing/689095/1 "2014-05-23T15:46:22Z")

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It used to be, if I was looking at a Streetview, i could grab the image and move it around. Now when I do that the image “sticks” to the cursor. I can’t just move the image at little, let off the button, and grab the image at a different place. It’s kind of frustrating. Anybody know what I’m talking about?

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**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2014, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-google-map-thing/689095/2 "2014-05-23T16:02:18Z")

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Are you using a mouse or a touchpad? Sometimes the touchpad drivers have a “drag lock” feature that makes your cursor drag until you tap it again.

Google Maps still works the same way as before for me, on a mouse.

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**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2014, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-google-map-thing/689095/3 "2014-05-23T16:19:02Z")

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> [@Reply](#):
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> Are you using a mouse or a touchpad?

Mouse. I can drag the image ok, but it sticks to the cursor. Can’t think of any other way to describe it. I just went back to Streetview, and found it’s not a consistent thing- sometimes I can just drag and let go, and then drag again, and sometimes it does the sticking thing. It’s probably just me…

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**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2014, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-google-map-thing/689095/4 "2014-05-23T16:38:21Z")

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This happens to me sometimes in Opera. Extremely annoying. I click to zoom all the way in (and then out) and that usually fixes it.

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**Author:** ![Dorjan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorjan/32/12440_2.png) [@Dorjan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dorjan)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2014, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-google-map-thing/689095/5 "2014-05-23T17:08:47Z")

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Used to happen to me with the new Google Maps in Chrome, it was extremely annoying. It was fixed after a while though, so not sure why you are having that issue.

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**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2014, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-google-map-thing/689095/6 "2014-05-23T19:20:25Z")

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This isn’t a new thing. It has always had this issue intermittently. If anything, I have had less trouble this way since the switch to the new version of maps than I used to have.