Prevent loosing detail in Google Map's terrain view upon zooming

[#1]

Hi!

I like to use Google Map when I am hiking in the nature - especially the terrain view, as it shows the land formations with its shading and the contour lines. It is also good to approximate the height above sea level of one's location by the elevation numbers of the contour lines.

Nevertheless, these features only work until a certain level of zoom. Zooming into the map closer - as it is shown on the 2 illustrational screenshots - and the details are lost, instead of getting more detailed with more information.

Google Map's terrain view - a larger zoom showing contour lines with elevationGoogle Map's terrain view with a closer zoom - the contour lines and elevations lost, only a blurred shading is left

I am just guessing, this is because of the inaccuracy of the terrain informations (height, slope, etc.) - that Google Map does not want to show when a closer zoom would require more accuracy.

But wouldn't it be possible to keep those information on screen, that were already available on the larger zoom? So if a height number is illegible one can zoom closer to look at it without actually losing it in the next second?

[MortenSI]

Hello @turaibalazs,

We would like to thank you for your idea, but we did not manage to implement it in time and according to our Idea Exchange policies, we are going to need to close your idea.

[Kbob3]

Really disappointed this was not implemented.  It's impossible to use the contours in the current version because I cannot even see the elevations in the small text on my phone. Its been an issue several times already for me but today i was just trying to see which peaks in a region were over 13000'... Seems like a general thing i should be able to do at a glance with a "terrain" map (and not something done easily by getting info for a place individually).  I really hope this can be improved in future updates.

[Andrewh42]

This really needs to be fixed. It shouldn't be that hard.

A reply of:

"Good idea but we did not manage to implement it in time" in 2019 is pathetic. It's 2021 now.  When we zoom in terrain mode we shouldn't have detail disappear.

[queteimporta]

This should be fixed. I also use this feature with my phone, it's allready very small to see and you can't zoom further while seeing the elevation numbers.

[Ibrahimgharbawi]

Terrain view is useless without detailed zoom. I have to take a screenshot and then zoom in in my gallery in order to check the altitude of a certain location. I hope it gets fixed soon.

[MapMapJulien]

• It is insane that this feature is not implemented. How much of a nonsense to have a terrain mode where you cannot read the elevation because the font size is way too small. Having some IT background I doubt increasing font size is a technical issue. Maybe there are non technical reasons why Google Maps team does not work on this feature. Disappointing like many things on Google Maps.

[Azbeltk]

It's 2022 and this problem is still not solved

[Durangotango]

Still dragging your feet on this one I see huh google

Why on earth is this like this 

[DHBREUER]

I agree with all above comments. I used to use the terrain layer allot years ago, but since an update, every transition in zoom scale, changes the height markings, but on every zoom level they're microscopically small and as mentioned above, the deepest zoom level the whole markings disappear. 

Please Google, fix this easy problem! Otherwise the terrain layer is useless on a phone. Too bad this is isn't fixed for years now. Cannot understand Google developers don't run into this problem themselves.