Would love a way to disable the grouping feature the new map has. It's cool for when you're looking at the map from far out so you can visualize how many projects are going on in each area. But just today, a friend and I were trying to find out where buildings we saw under construction were. I told them to visit the site and "just look for the purple pins". Because they're now grouped and lose the color information on each pin, I found that I couldn't just see whether the pins were purple or not until I'd zoomed in. The problem was we were trying to figure out where the buildings were in the first place, so we didn't know where to zoom in! Chicken and egg problem.
I agree. This is how I try to determine where a distance crane site is located.
1. Try to find a known landmark.
2. Google map a straight line “measure distance” from my location to a distance beyond the known site. A little difficult trying to get the correct line and the zoom correct
3. UT Select active construction sites.
4. Zoom in and out on the UT map for active construction sites, compare verse Goggle maps with the line or pick out major streets, then flip back to the UT sites with cranes, then look at existing site pictures to see if the crane matches.
Improvement Suggestion -
A ruler on the UT map would be nice to have but even Google’s distance measure tool isn’t perfect ,
Single point sites would help.
Filter for sites with cranes would help and should be possible
Filter for sites based on height or floors.
I have not tracked down this site yet. It is somewhat east and beyond 365 Parliament but how far out? Danforth, Eglinton, Lawrence, Ellsemere , Sheppard?
