Basically they want us to relearn it all over again in the new version.
'Tis a pain in the yaknowwhat, really. One wishes they at least told us what they seek to achieve and who asked for this. Maybe like a whole bunch of other applications it’s being redone to favor selfie-taking phablet users.
And it probably overlays some more sophisticated way of detecting that you’ve been looking at a strip mall that has smoke shops in it so let’s hook you up with those advertisers. Or that you have been looking for driving directions that avoid the Turnpike so let’s hook you up with the advertisers from the billboards you missed by not taking that route. Or something.
Ditto almost everything that has been said in this thread.
One thing that is annoying to me that hasn’t been mentioned is that the keyboard arrow key navigation inside Street View will randomly stop working and you have to use the mouse within the inset map to move past the dead spot. Also, the little arrows that used to show that you could turn left or right from a spot are gone in the new view.
On the other hand, they are introducing Historical Street View to distract us. This isn’t working for me at work today, but I imagine it is like most Google things, they are phasing-in the introduction.
A few weeks back I discovered that when I followed an link into Street View from an years old email I ended up magically loading the “original” Street View images for that location instead of the images that were taken of the location last summer, the first sign I had seen that Google had kept all their past Street View coverages but there was no easy way to access them.
Let me let you in on a little secret. Well, a big secret. What we programmers do is sit in our little cubicles all day, greenish glow on our faces as we stare into the computer screens with crazed eyes, rubbing our sweaty little hands together, and ask ourselves this:
Then we think of something, and we do it! And we’re really really good at it too. That’s why we make the big bucks.
I’ve had to switch back to the classic view, too. Yesterday, I was trying to get directions to a particular location, so I would start typing it in. It gave me a suggestion that was right, so I clicked on it and it gave me directions, but it was no longer the location I had clicked on. I tried it numerous times, including typing in the whole address, and it would consistently map a completely different address. Switched to classic view and the problem was gone.
In case anyone was wondering, search nearby is now accessed from the bar in the top left - you click in the text box and the option appears. Took me weeks to figure that out.
And yeah, it doesn’t work nearly as well as the old version.
I think it uses your IP address to pick the initial location. Does anything here show your IP address as being from Dallas? Sometimes the location databases are wrong.