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Over 9 months ago, Google previewed the new Google Maps, since then many have opted to use it but if you haven't and don't want to, you are out of luck. Google announced that the old version (current version) of Google Maps is going to be replace by the new Google Maps in the next "coming weeks." Like it or not, you won't be able to use the old Google Maps.
Truth is, the new Google Maps, over the past 9 months, has really grown and added a lot (not all) of the missing features from the old Google Maps and even more.
I personally use to go back to the old Google Maps as a user to use some features but now I rarely ever need to go back to the old Google Maps.
Here is a video on the new Google Maps:
Here are some stories we published on it over the past several months:
- Google Maps To Get Shiny New Look & Feel
- Gaining Access To The New Google Maps
- Google Maps Preview Available To All
- Google Maps Brings Share & Embed Feature To New Version
- Pegman Returns To Google Maps & Google Makes A Big Deal Of It
- How To Search Nearby In The New Google Maps
- Google Maps With Flight Directions
Of course, once it goes live to all, you will be hearing many complaints in the forums and on the blogs.
Forum discussion at Google Maps Help & Google+.
Comments:
Ray
02/20/2014 02:06 pm
damn :(
choto
02/21/2014 02:08 pm
Bad news, the old Google Maps rocks! The new one sucks.
Chuck
02/21/2014 07:23 pm
Wow, the new Google Maps blows. How shall I count the ways?: 1. Way to rearrange the entire UI so that it bears no resemblance to what preceded it. 2. You removed the default address I had assigned to my Maps account. Am gonna love re-typing that in every time I need directions instead of just having it there, ready to go. 3. Using Firefox, it's impossible to click-and-drag to change the route that Google Maps perceived. That means when I need directions from my home to some location in greater Cincinnati, I can't remove the 6 steps THAT I ALREADY KNOW that explain how to get on I-75. Awesome! 4. For a double penalty, if I print directions, I have to print the 6 steps explaining how to get to I-75 even if I don't want them. Way to remove the ability to click-and-drag to change the route. 5. Oh, clever (not). If I click on the little gear wheel in the bottom right of the UI, and then click on My Places, it takes me back to the old Google Maps UI, complete with my saved home address, the ability to "drag to change route," and to print in a more condensed form with small line spacings. The URL is https://www.google.com/maps/mm?authuser=0&hl=en
Anom Ymous
02/21/2014 08:38 pm
Hate the new google maps. Awful, awful, awful. I may stop using it altogether and go to the dreaded (cough) mapquest which is also terrible, but not as bad as the new google maps.
chuck-it
02/23/2014 10:37 am
New google maps are ghasltly!!!!!!!!
Nico
02/24/2014 03:43 pm
can't embed a course with various location it only embed points A->B not A-B-C...Z like the old interface, a disaster..
ron
02/25/2014 04:09 am
I hate it. I need to print maps and with the new version I can't...I hate it
Truthism321
02/25/2014 12:13 pm
It is heartbreaking what is happening to Google ... they just completely screwed up my Maps experience ... I'm not just saying "oh things are hard to find", they're not ... simple searches that I used to do for "OBVIOUS" places no longer work ... they just don't. HATE IT.
daveatx
02/26/2014 01:20 am
Why, Why, WHY must we change things that don't need changing, like moving the controls from top left to bottom right? What POSSIBLE reason is there for doing that??? Yes, improve Google maps - I get it - go for it. But the changes should make sense and not just be CHANGE FOR THE SAKE OF CHANGE. It's idiotic.
silicon28
02/26/2014 09:30 pm
Is Google trying to chase people away like Facebook has managed to do? This "improvement" is useless and stupid. Do we have to stop using Google and go back to mapquest for them to realize what a mistake this was? Dumb...
hateupgrades
02/27/2014 06:28 pm
I hate that box on the map, you can't even move it or close it/reopen when needed, move it back and also put a search bar where you can search the internet without searching an address, did google even bother checking to see how people actually used this app before they upgraded it?
elnoren
02/27/2014 06:28 pm
Hate it.... just hate it. WHY do they have to tamper with what works? do Bing have maps? going to try and find out. Starting to really detest google- wish there was an alternative. They won't listen, though. >;-(
CmonMann
02/28/2014 12:07 am
link to old version og google maps - https://www.google.com/maps?output=classic
Bunk666
02/28/2014 02:27 am
Why don' they cover up the whole map instead of half of it with boxes and overlays ??
Ryan D
03/01/2014 09:00 am
Thanks. I cannot upvote this enough!
RW
03/01/2014 04:08 pm
Another horrible "improvement" to a product that was fine, made by some twit without a clue. Don't know about the mobile app version of the new google maps but the PC version is horrendous. It can't seem to fill the entire screen and stays within your browser, the street view is now all stretched and blurry at the sides and looks highly unprofessional when before it had realistic panoramic views, the entire view is cluttered with ugly overlays that for some bizarre reason you're not allowed to hide etc... Its now far less immersive making it far less fun to explore places with and far more unpleasant for actual navigation uses, far uglier and far less user friendly. You would think an update would make google maps more amazing, like the abilty to move through the streets in a smooth, realistic way. But no instead it seems to have drastically downgraded to what looks more like a poor imitation of google maps.
CM
03/01/2014 06:36 pm
Imagine my surprise when I went to Google Maps for the first time in several months and saw the "improved" page. Google is now just as good as Microsoft -- let's take a complex product that our customer base has finally mastered, and mess with it so much it's unrecognizable. Smart. If the new "look" weren't enough, now I can't print a map at all from Firefox. Just get a blank page. Swell.
Robert Misner
03/02/2014 06:42 am
Change aversion is a serious problem. You should just get used to the new features. They're pleasant, if not a little bit of a system hog.
Neal Ekengren
03/03/2014 02:12 am
god. the new one really does suck. there are numerous bugs. my list of map points brings popup info for other locations. changing an icon gives me double icons. the navigation is not intuitive. crap crap crap. google is the new microsoft. google maps used to be so awesome. now it really is unusable for me.
gil
03/03/2014 11:33 am
Huge thanks to you!
Guest
03/03/2014 12:45 pm
Boy it is terrible. Gone from a great product to a terrible one overnight. It is so bad I thought it must be my computer and did a full reboot. Can't understand the reasons for this debacle. Google is highly profitable, well staffed, experienced and professional - the best in my opinion - yet this is worse than anything Microsoft has put out.
Guest
03/03/2014 12:47 pm
It is not change - anybody can handle a product update. Google maps has gone from highly functional to totally dysfunctional.
Robert Misner
03/03/2014 12:54 pm
I'm not sure you're using the same Google Maps that I am. I use it several times a week and I have never had an issue with it.
Bubba
03/03/2014 01:39 pm
From your response I'm guessing all you ever do is type in the occasional address and never use the advanced features, because many are still broken or missing. You might find it pleasant to be handed a product that's less efficient and has less features than the one it's supposed to be an upgrade for, I don't. As a developer I can tell you this is a poorly managed, premature roll out that is actually a downgrade of a mature product. I have had the same printing issue as CM more than once. Try making a personal map or importing a list of map points or sending the map somewhere. I'm not averse to change but I am averse to a company shoving a piece of half finished beta-ware with less features down my throat and telling me it's an improvement and I should just get used to it ;)
Zack
03/03/2014 09:50 pm
I want to punch my screen. The new Google maps makes me want to switch to Bing. And that's not saying much...
wooster_sores
03/04/2014 01:55 pm
Another goatee beard f***up.
Jackie
03/04/2014 05:08 pm
Does not make my job easy at all.. may need to find a new program
NotAnUpgrade;ADisaster
03/05/2014 04:46 am
I agree. Instead of letting us actually look at the map, they want us to look at Google boxes and their forced Google+ integration. I predict their next update will be a bunch of Google+ boxes, with a little map down in the corner. Also, it freezes every browser on every computer I use - my home and work desktops and my Macbook. But, they ruined Picasaweb and have not listened to their users, so no reason they will listen to this, either. I know I'm counting down the days until classic Google maps is no longer available...
Christine
03/05/2014 09:04 am
That just a waste of resources for such an "upgrade". The "NEW" version of google map is very terrible. I cannot stand that for 4 mins, it just can't help. When I use the street view to see my route, I cannot see the route anymore in the small box at the left bottom corner. Then how can I know my route to view the street view?????? Just cannot believe it. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE STOP THE NEW VERSION AND BACK TO THE PREVIOUS VERSION. WE WILL THANK YOU AND KEEP USING IT. IF NOT, ITS REALLY TIME TO CIND ANOTHER MAPS.
Christine
03/05/2014 09:07 am
same here...counting down....sad!
r
03/05/2014 12:02 pm
I thought it was me....GOOGLE MAPS STINKS>>>>>IF IT AINT BROKE WHY FIX...THE YOUNGER TECH GENERATION THINK THEY KNOW EVERYTHING....I'M GOING BACK TO MAPQUEST or ANOTHER SITE....DO YOU TEST AT ALL....A PAIN THATS WHAT YOU ARE.
GrumpyOne
03/06/2014 03:06 am
Awful is all I can say. Never thought that I'd go back to Mapquest, but I have...
GrumpyOne
03/06/2014 03:08 am
Either that or he's a paid google dweeb...
Beavus B'head
03/06/2014 03:59 am
Thats the problem with todays technology. Almost everything I use on the internet eventually gets changed for NO REASON AT ALL! I personally think its just the "map people" finding ways to justify their jobs. They probably e-mail millions of complaints so they can stay on staff.
Beavus B'head
03/06/2014 04:01 am
They have to find a way to stay on staff.
Beavus B'head
03/06/2014 04:03 am
Remember when Coke came out with "New Coke"? It sucked, but when they went back it made them twice as popular. same thing.
Beavus B'head
03/06/2014 04:04 am
Not to mention the "route" with the blue line covers up the street names!!!
Beavus B'head
03/06/2014 04:05 am
You must not have used the old maps. They were awesome, this one sucks!
Beavus B'head
03/06/2014 04:06 am
After Obamacare, programmers know they can put out a bad product with no repercussions.
Beavus B'head
03/06/2014 04:13 am
maybe they just hired the Obamacare crew?
GrumpyOne
03/06/2014 05:11 am
Make that the "wrecking" crew!
Brian
03/06/2014 05:51 pm
Thought I'd never say this, but I'm officially a Bing user now (when it comes to maps).
Petrica
03/07/2014 07:05 am
Thank you so much for the link!!! I have really tried very hard to accept the new version , but just couldn't. So non-friendly