cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17574522
Over the course of 2024, Google Maps for Android has been working on a redesign that drops most fullscreen UIs in favor of sheets…
Fuck Google Maps. I’ve been requesting to fix my road for 6 months now (new house I just purchased this year). They refuse. So now any website that uses google apis to validate addresses fucks me over. My road turns from “<road> Drive” to “<road> Court” at a junction with another road. Google maps just calls the whole road “Drive”.
The road signs even show up in street view. And the other roads around me that have the same structure are all correct.
Use OSM (Organic Maps app). I’m almost certain someone in the OSM community has mapped your road. If not, let me know, I’ll map it for you.
It’s mapped properly in every other database outside of google (including Waze which is now owned by Google). But I can’t make websites not use Google’s database for address validation. I don’t use google maps personally.
It’s amazing to me how much these companies spend on redesigns that add nothing but rounded corners one year, then sharp corners next year, and so on…
A friend of mine worked for a FAANG company and he taught me that people get promoted for creating something “new” rather than improving something that already exists.
Bullshit. You are just regurgitating the same tired crap that’s been repeated on the Internet for years.
As someone who’s worked for such companies since the mid-90’s, it’s common knowledge that run-and-maintain isn’t appreciated, only doing new things is.
Someone who keeps things from failing is much more at risk during layoffs than those who work only on new projects.
Gonna call me a liar now?
As someone who works for a similar company now, this notion and the success of this strategy/mindset greatly exaggerated.
Considering how often new projects get axed at Google you couldn’t possibly be safer on average than working on a golden goose (like Search/Android/Maps/etc).
You got me. I made up a story so I could get my one upvote.
I work at a FAANG adjacent company and it’s exactly the same thing here. I believe it 100%
