I have a problem rather frequently with Google maps. I zoom in to a small 3x3 mile area and search for something like Chinese restaurants. What usually happens is Google either zooms out to the entire city (a 100x100 mile area) or it zooms away completely back to my home city. That's fucking annoying.
Then I manually place everything back to where I actually wanted it and had it in the first place, and lo and behold it's showing me every kind of restaurant instead of Chinese restaurants. I have to click the search this area button which of course conveniently wasn't on the original screen to get the results I wanted in the first place.
Then I click on a restaurant to look at the pictures and read the reviews and when I'm done I naturally click the back button and it's all gone. I'm back to some other screen, maybe an empty map or one of the screens I was on previously that I didn't want, but it's almost never the list of Chinese restaurants in the small geographic area I was researching in the first place.
And that's just one example of one problem I regularly have with Google Maps. It's a horrible horrible user experience if you aren't using it in the way they think you should be using it.
I don't think this is a power user use case. Everybody wants to look up Chinese restaurants at a family or friend's house at some point in their life. Why is this so fucking hard?
Then I manually place everything back to where I actually wanted it and had it in the first place, and lo and behold it's showing me every kind of restaurant instead of Chinese restaurants. I have to click the search this area button which of course conveniently wasn't on the original screen to get the results I wanted in the first place.
Then I click on a restaurant to look at the pictures and read the reviews and when I'm done I naturally click the back button and it's all gone. I'm back to some other screen, maybe an empty map or one of the screens I was on previously that I didn't want, but it's almost never the list of Chinese restaurants in the small geographic area I was researching in the first place.
And that's just one example of one problem I regularly have with Google Maps. It's a horrible horrible user experience if you aren't using it in the way they think you should be using it.
I don't think this is a power user use case. Everybody wants to look up Chinese restaurants at a family or friend's house at some point in their life. Why is this so fucking hard?