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Online maps
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2018–2025), in 5 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Online maps, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 4 complaints
- Maps are nearly unusable for places addressed by building number rather than street2025-05-29
- Street names and one-way markers are missing at medium zoom; labels sit just outside the viewport2023-06-13
- Place names and area labels are missing or wrong, making the map hard to use for general orientation2019-11-19
- Loses details when zoomed out, making it hard to get a general sense of location2018-01-19