Adding my voice to others who hate the new maps. I noticed a few days ago that I could no longer choose the old version (and “make change permanent”) via the little question mark in the lower right. I hate hate hate the new one!
So yes thank you so much for this link, which as of now works for me too, running latest version of Chrome. I sure hope Google hears all the dissent here and elsewhere.
Well sheeeut.
I use an older version of Firefox on an older version of Linux on an older CPU box. I’m perfectly happy with that.
Now? Google Maps is exactly 100% non-functional for me. When I go there, I get a completely blank page, and nothing more! It just doesn’t get any more non-functional than that.
Thanks, everybody, for the links mentioned above for a version that I can still use – while it lasts.
I have also been using gmail for several years now. I have been running it in “html” mode most of this time – Much faster, cleaner, and it doesn’t even display the usual advertising based on words in my mail! When will this cease to work on my computer as well?
When that happens, it’s back to snail-mail and paper maps printed on dead trees for me.
There’s a little, teeny tiny one all the way down in the bottom right corner in the watermark line.
I hate the new Google map. I’ve gone retro and returned to Mapquest. Something I used for several year until 2008. For awhile Google Map was better. Not anymore.
It still beats the hell out of the Texaco map that we all used to keep, horribly re-folded, in the glove box.
I’ve been using it for about a year and have gotten used to its quirks. But there are certainly valid complaints in this thread, things missing that I have grown accustomed to not existing anymore but do wish were returned. Better zooming being one.
Your link still works today, but now there’s an ominous yellow message at the top: “This version of Google Maps is updating soon.”
Thank you thank you Baron Greenback!
↑ ↑ ↑ I downloaded this & I like it… 
That is because it is Google Maps!
It might be just a little too stripped-down. Is there any way to get directions via the ACME interface?
I think very highly of the data underlying Here.com
And now I’m getting redirect errors when I try using Google maps. It fails using Firefox and IE on two different computers (one is my personal laptop, one is a work PC) but still seems to work if I use Chrome.
It stopped working 29/05/15, errrr, 16:00ish GMT
RIP classic maps 
Did it?
:trying it out:
Godammit. Armchair traveling with street view is going to be way harder now.
I used to “browse” Google Maps many, many times in a week. Just for fun to see what some odd place looked like.
I’ve stopped using it almost entirely for any reason. Nice job Google.
One thing I’ve come across: I’m in the middle of a street in street view. I pan around. “Hey, I didn’t know that street had a curve here!” Double check, nope, it doesn’t. Just a horrible fish-eye effect. Could easily throw people off looking for the place they want after a turn that isn’t there. Nice job Google.
Yeah, I actually had it up and was running the classic version, but suddenly when I was moving and refreshing the view, it changed to the new version, and I’ve not seen Classic since.
<<sigh>>
I have always used Google Earth.
Street view, 3-4 times a year.
M/S streets & maps, very old version, for mileage & driving time 3-4 times a year.
I’m lucky, have very good directional sense and map reading abilities and memory of where I have been 5 years ago or stuff like that.
For a lot of street stuff * I use ‘OpenStreetMap’.*
Now I’m at work and using my work computer. I had stored as a bookmark here one of the guerrilla Classic Map links provided upthread - I forget which post furnished it.
But here it is, and it seems to still be working. As of 6/1/15 9:18 a.m. Yay!
Did you ever know that you’re my heeeeee-roooo…?
I’m sure I’m just stupid, but how do I get the new Google Map to display the icon showing scale (“<– 500 m –>”) ? I often want to estimate distances manually, but I can’t find that distance indicater. (I’m certain such an obvious aid is available by clicking somewhere – am I the only ignoramus that couldn’t figure it out?)
I find that GISsurfer General Purpose Web Map and GIS Viewer | Surf GIS DATA is good. It may be very similar to the acme site mentioned upthread, but it may have more distinct maps to choose from. Which is better, mappingsupport or acme ?