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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It looks pretty weird. The colors were a signture Google Maps feature.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah, I agree. They've made slight shifts over the years, but I feel like this looks enough like a different maps app.

I also feel lots of pieces of it include bits of the apple design that make their maps harder to read.

Google doesn't need to change their color pallete, they just need to stop tossing 400 advertising pins everywhere you look.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I felt that Google Maps has been getting ever harder to read. The palette had moved towards a grey-on-grey scheme with very little contrast. This new scheme looks less distinctive... But I think that's a good thing given how hard it was too read the old one sometimes

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's weird that they'd want to copy from Apple in particular considering how bad that maps app is. Odd choice, even with the usual "can't think larger thatn US" attitude Google management suffers from.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Except that Apple Maps are much easier to read.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

They look like OSM now.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can someone put an archive link? It tells me to disable my adblocker, but I don't use an adblocker, I just set Firefox to disable tracking cookies

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

There is nothing huge. Google adjust colours of some objects on the map a bit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I told it I turned off my ad blocker (though it was still enabled) and it let me proceed

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

The yellow highways turning blue makes them harder to see :(

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That's most probably a good thing. I don't really see how a new colour scheme could be more atrocious than the current one.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I wondered why there was a sudden change in my map. I opened the settings but couldn't find anything different.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was wondering how I could have missed this but then I realized I always have traffic view enabled so roads are either green, yellow, or red. Ends up looking basically the same as before.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I use dark mode so nothing changed lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Not opposed to some extra options, although it's a little hard to distinguish between the green and the water in some of them