Hi All,
This morning I noticed a design change on Maps for desktop computers.
The road color seems darker and more pronounced. Hence the road shapes are more noticeable and likely also more detailed than before. The width is no longer uniform, but it varies continuously. So the pedestrian streets (bike and walking paths) look more distinct from roads for cars.
Do you see the same?
Cheers
Morten
Same here @MortenCopenhagen thanks for the heads up!
@MortenCopenhagen Same here. I saw the design a few ago on a pixel phone with maps.
I also experience this new coloring scheme on desktop. While it has been rolling out for the app since a few months ago as I mentioned before, for the desktop it has been rolling out since only a few weeks ago.
I prefer this coloring.
About the road width it is another change and not directly related to colors. Indeed it has been available since 2020 and now it seems Google is expanding the street-level details to more cities.
The changes extend to Sat Nav as well where the route you are designing is now in royal blue dots while the Street View lines are still the same blue. This makes it far easier to make a custom Sat Nav based on where the Google Car, Trekker went.
I found some places where the new “dynamic” road shape is missing roads:
Hi @MaxFlieger
You could check this further by creating navigation to see if the missing road or bike paths pieces are actually missing or only the display is broken. If you do this please share screen shots of the results.
Cheers
Morten
I stumbled upon this critical discussion of the new Google Maps design and color scheme.
https://www.businessinsider.com/google-maps-update-colors-change-reactions-2023-11?r=US&IR=T
Cheers
Morten
