I’m running it on my desktop system, onChrome, haven’t done any major changes recently, have rebooted.
When I enter a place in the search bar, it finds the place but it doesn’t take me thereon the map. If I zoom out or otherwise maneuver the map to where the site I searched for is located, Google Maps has kindly marked it for me, though. But if I knew where it was I would have just gone there myself.
I’ve tried Google Map’s help for this problem
As a test I just went to Google Maps and typed in an address I’m been needing a lot lately.
50 East Front Street, Red Bank, NJ I clicked and took me there.
That is with Chrome and Win 11.
Then I tried Yankee Stadium and hit enter and it took me there.
If I type Yankee Stadium in the address bar, it takes me to a results page and to the right is a little map that if I click on takes me to Yankee Stadium on Google Maps.
Windows 10. Firefox 91.
If I start at maps.google.com, and I enter the name of a specific and unique landmark, the map approximately centers on that landmark and the info panel on the left has an entry for that landmark.
If I start at maps.google.com, and I enter the name of a non-unique landmark, the map centers and scales so that all matches show someplace on the visible map, and the info panel lists all matches, so I can click one and display its specific info (and the map pans and zooms to center on its location).
If I don’t start at maps.google.com, google search gives me a page of web search returns and an inset map that I can click to replicate the effect of searching from maps.google.com.
I’ve experienced this same issue, although I can’t seem to reproduce it now. Maybe it’s only happening at my work PC. Same as you though, I’d type a place in and Google Maps would mark it but not zoom or shift the map over to the location.
My experience is with my VPN turned on then I get results similar to the OP but when turned off I get local results and taken to where I want to be. So maybe it is a location issue viz google judges you to be too far away to want a specific location.
I’ve noticed a slightly similar situation with Google Maps when the “marker” goes away when I do various things, e.g., shrink the sidebar. Um. No. I still want the spot marked.
Well, I’m glad someone else has experienced it, I guess? ;-D
I have a VPN on my work computer, but not on my home system, and the two have run side by side for years. This new behavior started less than a week ago.
Yeah, I have always had that too. But this not shifting the map to the specified location is quite new.
Not sure about this exact problem, but I’m finding the marker for the place I searched for increasingly lost in a sea of other markers I didn’t ask about. The Thai restaurant on 3rd I searched for is marked, but so is the Jiffy Lube next door to it, the Mexican place across the street, and the elementary school a block away. The Thai restaurant marker is only slightly bigger than every other marker crowding the screen.
And now it seems to have fixed itself. How odd. I didn’t even do anything to try to fix it since starting this thread.
My phone locked up pretty hard yesterday. It was very sluggish to even restart. Once it did restart, I ran for full diagnostic and everything is fine.
I’ll most likely never know what happened.