New Maps

[Tha_Ape]

Very interesting post, great ideas.

Another quite welcome feature would be not only the target city's airports' radius, but also nearby cities' airports. So (where needed) we could decide to strategically space out our destinations airports.

Maybe not on that map, but on a "city information" page (rather than "airport information", or in addition to it).

[Cornishman]

Dear all and Sami

There is no doubt - whichever way we look at this change, that we have overall LOST usability with the map change, rather than gained anything. I personally really miss the Google maps because I did make regular good use of them to plan routes. For me now there is absolutely no point having these "faceless" maps with hardly any data on them - I'd rather not bother with any map. (Now I find myself using the laptop beside the PC and getting up Google maps there to work out what I want to do)

I get it Sami - costs go up and in this world - and at the moment every company out there everywhere is "dishing out smaller portions with lower quality ingredients" in efforts to increase profit.  Please can we be different in this otherwise beautiful AWS game?  I'd rather you said to us - hey ladies and gents - we need to increase the price a little to play the game and to keep standards high.  I'd accept that, I believe that we have such a high quality of people in general who play this game that I'm sure a few $$s extra per month to play would be OK by most.

Just my own personal feelings - not sure what everyone else would think of this? 
Jack

[Sami]

Like mentioned previously, using Google Maps is not possible, regardless how much more you'd be willing to pay. (their new cost structure is ridiculous, we are talking of tens of thousands per year, and there is absolutely no chance at all that I would be considering their services anymore since it's purely impossible financially)

And please check the changelog (the latest posts about the map updates): the new maps are partly still in development with more details/data coming if possible. This is the first version and I am still learning how everything works there too...

[Cornishman]

WOW  OK, I had no idea they had become that greedy  - in that case I don't blame you at all for giving them the shove. So we will look forward to the developments as they come. Thanks for the explanation. 

[samomuransky]

Does OSM lack appropriate API to use their map? Map itself is pretty good, almost on par with Google Maps.

I agree with others that current maps are major decrease in usability.