I just went to my bookmarked "Google Maps" to find out where a special hardware store is located. Instead of getting my normal 60540 local area code map, I get s high-altitude panoramic view of the entire northern Illinois area. No way to move, enlarge or reduce the map. Then alittle bit and mostly below the panoramic view, I also get a lot of graphics and the equivalent of 3-4 scroll-down pages of gibberish and symbols and "stuff". My book mark is unchanged. Mapquest, yellowpages maps, etc, all still work ok. Anyone else notice this problem?

On 12/14/14, 9:49 PM, wrote:
I just went to my bookmarked "Google Maps" to find out where a
special hardware store is located. Instead of getting my normal
60540 local area code map, I get s high-altitude panoramic view of
the entire northern Illinois area. No way to move, enlarge or
reduce the map. Then alittle bit and mostly below the panoramic
view, I also get a lot of graphics and the equivalent of 3-4
scroll-down pages of gibberish and symbols and "stuff". My book
mark is unchanged. Mapquest, yellowpages maps, etc, all still work
ok. Anyone else notice this problem?


Working OK here for my town. Looked up 60540 and it shows Naperville OK.

Can you try a different browser ?

I'll call my son, "the Guru", tomorrow, and give him remote control of my computer and see what gives.

On Sun, 14 Dec 2014 18:49:49 -0800 (PST), "
wrote:

I just went to my bookmarked "Google Maps" to find out where a special hardware store is located. Instead of getting my normal 60540 local area code map, I get s high-altitude panoramic view of the entire northern Illinois area. No way to move,

That's because satellites are very hard to move. It's not like "24"
where they reposition the satellites whenever they want to.

enlarge or reduce the map. Then alittle bit and mostly below the panoramic view, I also get a lot of graphics and the equivalent of 3-4 scroll-down pages of gibberish and symbols and "stuff". My book mark is unchanged. Mapquest, yellowpages maps, etc, all still work ok. Anyone else notice this problem?

Well, I checked just now and I'm back to the new map format. I wasn't
earlier today. I swtiched permantenty to the old map format and I was
happy. Okay... I just n ow left clicked onthe ? mark, and went back
to the old map format.

Didnt' have any satellite views

This is my default page based on where they think I live (and they're
right.)
https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.8...classic&dg=opt
This is my default page on the new map format

Eventually it should ask if I want to make classic permanent.

What's your url from space?

Something happened a week ago and I lost the add-on Noscript, and maybe
others. STrangley, even though the Noscript icon isn't next to the
location box, and no Noscript bars pop up on the bottom, I havent'
gotten more than 1 or 2 "Script will not compete" or "Flash is in a
loop" boxes in the past week, which is what I wanted Noscript to get rid
of. I think this is like my baking soda submarine and I hope it keeps
working so well.

On Sun, 14 Dec 2014 19:33:39 -0800 (PST), "
wrote:

I'll call my son, "the Guru", tomorrow, and give him remote control of my computer and see what gives.

Do you use TeamViewer. It works great. It's supposed to be even
better than the built-in feature, which I've never used.

On Sunday, December 14, 2014 8:49:53 PM UTC-6, wrote:
I just went to my bookmarked "Google Maps" to find out where a special hardware store is located. Instead of getting my normal 60540 local area code map, I get s high-altitude panoramic view of the entire northern Illinois area. No way to move, enlarge or reduce the map. Then alittle bit and mostly below the panoramic view, I also get a lot of graphics and the equivalent of 3-4 scroll-down pages of gibberish and symbols and "stuff". My book mark is unchanged. Mapquest, yellowpages maps, etc, all still work ok. Anyone else notice this problem?

Google maps changed format recently. I don't like it because of the boxes of text that cover the map. If you click on the question mark you have a choice to return to the classic style.

On Sun, 14 Dec 2014 23:39:16 -0500, micky wrote:

Well, I checked just now and I'm back to the new map format. I wasn't
earlier today. I swtiched permantenty to the old map format and I was
happy. Okay... I just n ow left clicked onthe ? mark, and went back
to the old map format.

That happened to me twice yesterday. And I was logged in and I did check
that I wanted to keep the old format.

Don. www.donwiss.com (e-mail link at home page bottom).

micky wrote:

On Sun, 14 Dec 2014 18:49:49 -0800 (PST), "
wrote:

I just went to my bookmarked "Google Maps" to find out where a special
hardware store is located. Instead of getting my normal 60540 local area
code map, I get s high-altitude panoramic view of the entire northern
Illinois area. No way to move,

That's because satellites are very hard to move. It's not like "24"
where they reposition the satellites whenever they want to.

???? There's nothing realtime about the satellite imagery. Sometimes it's
obvious that adjoining tiles were captured at different times of the year.
If you look closely you can sometimes determine how old a particular tile is
by looking for recent changes.

On Sun, 14 Dec 2014 21:36:02 -0800 (PST),
wrote:

On Sunday, December 14, 2014 8:49:53 PM UTC-6, wrote:
I just went to my bookmarked "Google Maps" to find out where a special hardware store is located. Instead of getting my normal 60540 local area code map, I get s high-altitude panoramic view of the entire northern Illinois area. No way to move, enlarge or reduce the map. Then alittle bit and mostly below the panoramic view, I also get a lot of graphics and the equivalent of 3-4 scroll-down pages of gibberish and symbols and "stuff". My book mark is unchanged. Mapquest, yellowpages maps, etc, all still work ok. Anyone else notice this problem?

Google maps changed format recently. I don't like it because of the boxes of text that cover the map.

I didn't like that either. Also, they have zoom in and zoom out, but
used to have a zoom scale you could click anywhere on the scale and not
have to go one step at a time. Even in the old format, that scale is
not there all the time, and I can't tell what makes it be there and when
it isn't.

If you click on the question mark you have a choice to return to the classic style.

And you can check off reasons why you don't like it. Too many boxes
is one of the reasons you can check. IIRC, at first you could only
check one box, but now you can check several.

And, ahem, if you click Back and then click on the question mark, you
can give your reassons a second time. I wonder if they check for
duplicate posters!

On Mon, 15 Dec 2014 09:37:42 -0500, Don Wiss
wrote:

On Sun, 14 Dec 2014 23:39:16 -0500, micky wrote:

Well, I checked just now and I'm back to the new map format. I wasn't
earlier today. I swtiched permantenty to the old map format and I was
happy. Okay... I just n ow left clicked onthe ? mark, and went back
to the old map format.

That happened to me twice yesterday. And I was logged in and I did check
that I wanted to keep the old format.

Don. www.donwiss.com (e-mail link at home page bottom).

The good thing would be if they did that just to get a count of those
who really still want the old format.

Weather.com changed its format a week ago, and I don't like it, but I
think I couldn't even find an email address.

On Mon, 15 Dec 2014 12:37:58 -0500, micky wrote:

On Sun, 14 Dec 2014, wrote:
If you click on the question mark you have a choice to return to the classic style.

And you can check off reasons why you don't like it. Too many boxes
is one of the reasons you can check. IIRC, at first you could only
check one box, but now you can check several.

Good to know. I've only checked I don't like it. The initial reason was the
new format didn't work with the Measurement Tool. I like it. Getting the
link to show you, I find the new maps has a measuring tool on the right
click. Go he https://support.google.com/maps/answer/1628031

Then open up the section on measuring distance on the classic Google Maps.

Don. www.donwiss.com (e-mail link at home page bottom).

On Mon, 15 Dec 2014, micky wrote:

Weather.com changed its format a week ago, and I don't like it, but I
think I couldn't even find an email address.

I have always preferred weather.gov. No ads. I keep two shotcuts on my
toolbar. One for hourly and the other for 7-Day. The below have my
coordinates. Find your latitude and longitude and edit them into the links.

Hourly
http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick...=0&bw=0&menu=1

If you live down south, click on show menu, uncheck snow/freezing
rain/sleet, click on hide menu, and save that link.

7-Day
http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick...ite=all&smap=1

This will find your latitude and longitude:
http://www.daftlogic.com/sandbox-goo...d-altitude.htm

Enter zip code, or city and state. Then zoom in and click on your location.

Don. www.donwiss.com (e-mail link at home page bottom).

On Mon, 15 Dec 2014 15:40:31 -0500, Don Wiss
wrote:

On Mon, 15 Dec 2014, micky wrote:

Weather.com changed its format a week ago, and I don't like it, but I
think I couldn't even find an email address.

And two weeks ago, the certificates to *receive* email via Verizon.com
expired, or changed, for no apparent reason, and I had to fiddle with my
news reader (Eudora) to get mail again. No warning or help from
Verizon. I had to ask online for help, in order to make it work.

Last night the same t hing happed wrt "sending" email via Verizon, via
my laptop, with slightly different steps needed to fix it, but at least
I had an idea where to start. However this morning the desktop
computer still sends email just fine, on the same account, same DSL line

I have always preferred weather.gov. No ads. I keep two shotcuts on my

Weather.com's advertising is after the weather

toolbar. One for hourly and the other for 7-Day. The below have my
coordinates. Find your latitude and longitude and edit them into the links.

So now I know where to find you if I need you.

Hourly
http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick...=0&bw=0&menu=1

If you live down south, click on show menu, uncheck snow/freezing
rain/sleet, click on hide menu, and save that link.

7-Day
http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick...ite=all&smap=1

This will find your latitude and longitude:
http://www.daftlogic.com/sandbox-goo...d-altitude.htm

Enter zip code, or city and state. Then zoom in and click on your location.

Thanks. I'll check it out.

Don. www.donwiss.com (e-mail link at home page bottom).

I have done nothing to my computer since the original post, not even powering it up or down,(or down and then back up), and tonite Google maps is working corectly again. SIGH!!!!!!!!!!!!

On 12/19/2014 9:18 PM, wrote:
I have done nothing to my computer since the
original post, not even powering it up or down,
(or down and then back up), and tonite Google
maps is working corectly again. SIGH!!!!!!!!!!!!


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