Thanks. I couldn't get there yesterday. I did use GeoHack via Wikipedia to eventually find the coordinates, but Google Maps was still recalcitrant about allowing me to SEE them, and when I was finally able to force it to do so, it would only allow it as a MAP. The satellite view was completely unavailable.
This afternoon, there's a small square box in the lower left corner that allows me to switch back & forth between MAP and Satellite view. It also tells me that I'm now in "Lite Mode", and that I can't search nearby, measure distances, get coordinates or drag routes - all things I could routinely do before. OH, and "Lite Mode" also doesn't allow you to report map PROBLEMS to Google. In the "Full Mode" there was no way to switch between MAP view and Satellite view. That area on the screen (and more) was occupied by some sort of photo browser. And thanks also to Godfrey, Brian, P.j & Mark. P.J., I think they dropped the "Don't be Evil" motto around the time they introduced Google+. On 5/1/2015 4:36 PM, Igor PDML-StR wrote:
John, While Google maps are loading very slowly today (you broke it! ;-) ), I can see the satellite images.. I am not sure if you meant some particular scale that is not available... As a matter of fact, it is the map itself that doesn't load, while the "Earth" image does. Here it is: http://goo.gl/4Pwq9W But I was not able to find them by name, only via the coordinates that I got from here: http://goo.gl/TBJCSR When I was trying to find these island by name, it just wasn't loading anything (or rather showing the last place I searched for). I actually was able to find those by name - just now, some 10 minutes later. And it is in the correct place. I suspect that their map database is experiencing difficulties. Maybe everybody is trying to look where Baltimore or Nepal is. HTH, Igor John Fri, 01 May 2015 13:09:51 -0700 wrote: Has no one at Google ever heard the expression "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!"? They've EFFED up the maps and made them almost completely unusable. "Almost" as in there's no such thing as a "perfect idiot" because no one's perfect. I like to use the maps to find places that are in the news. Helps me to grasp what's going on. There was a story yesterday about the U.S. involving it in a dispute between China and Japan about some islands. If you search for those islands in the new Google Maps, it says they're in BELGIUM. If you do manage to find the location in spite of Google's best effort to misdirect you, there's no satellite view any more. It's like they have to prove their programmers can shove their heads SO MUCH FARTHER up their assholes than Micro$oft ever could.
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