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Rip-off of Classic Google Maps, get a mostly functional version of Classic Maps, implemented with the Maps API
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specific street address given but map makes me click 11 times #91

Open borderthinking opened 9 years ago

borderthinking commented 9 years ago

Now when I insert a specific address the map scale to get to the red indicator requires me to click 11 times to get to where I can see even the street name.

barryhunter commented 9 years ago

Can't win! This was a deliberate change. See the comments on http://techforluddites.com/meet-the-developer-behind-classy-gmap/

... it used to zoom to the maximum zoom level in such cases (one result) - now it just sticks with the current zoom level. That's arguably better than always zooming really close.

Perhaps the idea would be if it choose a automatic zoom level, reasonably close in case of say single street address, but wider, in the case of searching for say a city name. Alas not sure I can do that, as just get a lat/long back from the API, no clue how big of an area the result covers.

borderthinking commented 9 years ago

I remember recently when it changed (on yours) to maximum closeness, but in a few clicks one could see street names. For some areas of London now it's taking me 15+ clicks from outer space to get to even larger street names. Before recently, on your site, it did seem to present a single middle-distance zoom level upon being given an address.

On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 11:27 AM, barryhunter notifications@github.com wrote:

Can't win! This was a deliberate change. See the comments on http://techforluddites.com/meet-the-developer-behind-classy-gmap/

... it used to zoom to the maximum zoom level in such cases (one result) - now it just sticks with the current zoom level. That's arguably better than always zooming really close.

Perhaps the idea would be if it choose a automatic zoom level, reasonably close in case of say single street address, but wider, in the case of searching for say a city name. Alas not sure I can do that, as just get a lat/long back from the API, no clue how big of an area the result covers.

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