http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2014/02/thank-you-and-welcome-to-new-google-maps.html
don't want this great advancement in web mapping to be relegated to the chat thread/technology board
though my computer's pretty much shit so i don't get some of the cooler earth mode junk. at least it's pretty RUB IT
Leave it to the kid who has a fetish for maps to like google maps
I've been using the new google maps since last may
I like it quite a bit better than the old interface. It used to lack some of the old features, like custom maps, but it looks like they fixed that recently.