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		TeMPOraL on Nov 2, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple's New Map Sometimes they do. I second this entire complaining thread; Google Maps really bad as a map. It only works well as a search results display and navigation frontend.

tomaskafka on Nov 2, 2018 [–]

That's what Google maps are - they only care about places where you spend dollars (good luck finding eg. kid playgrounds).

Here's an app of a company I worked for, that cares about non-shopping use cases: https://windymaps.com/app

onemoresoop on Nov 2, 2018 | [–]

I wonder if this done on purpose or ignored for the reasons you just mentioned

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