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Odd that this is downvoted?

Maybe I'm just an old fart, but "usability" of apps seems to be going down everywhere. For example, making "near" user-definable would be an easy fix, and I don't think it would cause any implementation problems on the mapping side, would it?

I notice feature after feature like this these days, where something has been implemented, but it isn't useful due to lack of attention to detail.



Think the downvotes are in response to the entitlement and complaining about the 'wrong sort' of pandering.


It doesn't look downvoted to me. And I don't feel like it's an entitlement issue - eight million people live in NYC. That's more than the whole state of Arizona.

It's not unreasonable to expect a map to behave differently in the middle of a major city than a more rural area.


The complaint is the apps pander to Bay-Area expectations rather than NYC. Neither are rural.




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