i'm sure google's ultimate plan was/is to merge google earth and "3d/vr/augment all the things!", but for basic maps it is just terrible. the benefits of the GL maps, IMO, do not justify the enormous speed sacrifice, at least to the end users.
Server load would have a statistically imperceptible impact here never seen a google product roll out with scale-related issues, especially one as mature as their gmaps architecture was at the time of the GL switch.ĮDIT: the image-based maps is a great example of the "Choose Boring Technology" thread. those tilesets are almost certainly statically cached and served at lightning speed with practically 0 overhead from some regionally located cdn server. Pac-Man games, in the Google Maps version, the player has to guide their yellow character around the map, all while eating up dots and avoiding the arch-nemesis of Pac-Man - the ghosts.I can tell you, unambiguously, that it has always been this fast. Pac-Man that reads "Insert Coin," as if the nostalgia factor isn't already ramped up enough by just being able to play the classic game on a more modern piece of technology. USA Today reported that the "pink circle" is actually an image of Ms. Then, the publication reported, the app will transport the user "to a random location, turning the map blue and throwing you into a version of the game." Cool, right? Once a user grabs their iPhone or Android or whatever phone of choice, or a desktop or laptop instead, they can get started.Īccording to The Telegraph, anyone with a smartphone can access the game by opening up the Google Maps app, then clicking on the pink circle in the bottom right corner of the screen. In order to play the Pac-Man game on Google Maps right now, the first thing someone is gonna need is a smartphone or computer. Pac-Man arcade game in real life, on real streets. It's not quite the right day yet, but Google has already launched an April Fool's Day version of Google Maps that lets users play the classic Ms.
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