Google Maps directions, sheets redesign rolling out on Android

Over the course of 2024, Google Maps for Android has been working on a redesign that drops most fullscreen UIs in favor of sheets...

Over the course of 2024, Google Maps for Android has been working on a redesign that drops most fullscreen UIs in favor of sheets...

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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.
- It's busy work to justify a lot of positions. Think how many people are needed even for a minor change like that in an organization as large and bloated as google
- I literally can't even tell the difference between the first set of pictures other than the new one looks like it has an added advertisement on the center panel.
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.
- I can't get Google Maps to recognize that my driveway is connected to the street I live on, not the street behind my house.

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