I'd like to have a default zoom depending on viewport center - it should be larger in cities than in the field. Should be relatively easy to interpolate if they log (lat, lon, zoom) tuples of how humans use the map.
The latitude/longitude (LatLng, shades of "creat" ;-) tooltip and marker features are neat, but:
- the tooltip is annoying - possibly only show after a >1s delay, or turn on with context, like putting the marker
- checking marker vs. tooltip, the tooltip seems to present the LatLng at the wrist of the hand cursor, not a finger ?
- cannot copy LatLng text/value from marker ...
(HN, now doing feedback form duty ...)
P.S. while I'm at it: general Google search, and Maps search itself, doesn't seem too savvy about LatLng strings taken from random web sources. A little bit of elbow grease there could go a long way ...
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The latitude/longitude (LatLng, shades of "creat" ;-) tooltip and marker features are neat, but:
- the tooltip is annoying - possibly only show after a >1s delay, or turn on with context, like putting the marker
- checking marker vs. tooltip, the tooltip seems to present the LatLng at the wrist of the hand cursor, not a finger ?
- cannot copy LatLng text/value from marker ...
(HN, now doing feedback form duty ...)
P.S. while I'm at it: general Google search, and Maps search itself, doesn't seem too savvy about LatLng strings taken from random web sources. A little bit of elbow grease there could go a long way ...