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IMO it's definitely Second-system syndrome. Maps worked fine and didn't need much added/changed, but someone decided that they needed to keep iterating and now we're stuck with all the cludge built on top of it now.


It wasn't iteration. They threw away code and started from scratch. Things you should never do [1].

Several months ago Google releases totally new version of Google Maps. Google Maps consistently stays as a poor product since then. I think that even first version of Google maps (introduced in 2005) was better.

[1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html

  When you throw away code and start from scratch,
  you are throwing away all that knowledge.
  All those collected bug fixes.
  Years of programming work.




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