Google Map photos blurry

User contributed photos in Google Maps are supposed to initially load as very low resolution and incrementally increase to sharpness. As of the past few months, on iPad, most photos remain blurry despite 108Mbps download speed. Some photos that show sharp when moving to another photo and back become permanently blurry. Not sure if this is an iOS issue... but the Google forums don’t seem to know about the issue. This has been going on for the past few months.


iPad Pro 12.9-inch Wi-Fi

Posted on Sep 14, 2019 7:34 AM

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Sep 14, 2019 9:06 AM in response to GOldAPPle78

Perhaps I wasn’t clear enough. There is nothing wrong with the photos, only the way they are displayed as incomplete.

I copied the following from Wikipedia. The code that loads the photos is broken. Not sure if is at the Apple iOS part or the Google Maps part. At 108Mbps I know it is not a slow speed issue. Somewhere along the line an update to either iOS or Google Maps broke the code. Prior to the last few months this feature had been working flawlessly for years. As suggested by another, I will test on OSX.


Incremental rendering refers to a feature built into most modern Web browsers. Specifically, this refers to the browser's ability to display a partially downloaded Web page to the user while the browser awaits the remaining files from the server. The advantage to the user is a perceived improvement in responsiveness, both from the Web browser and from the web site.

The purpose of incremental rendering is similar to the purpose of the interlaced JPEG, which improves the presentation speed to the user by quickly displaying a low-resolution version of an image which improves to a high-resolution, rather than an image that slowly paints from top to bottom.

Sep 14, 2019 8:24 AM in response to Hallenw

Hi Hallenw,


The photos like you said are contributed by users, they uploaded blurry photos, I suppose there’s no ways to control this but I have a suggestion: Why don’t you visit the places and take clear photos of the places and upload them to Google Maps during your free time?

    

Treat this photo trip like a game trip (like a game app called Pokémon Go where people go to a lot of Singapore places to catch Pokemon)


Just a suggestion, no offence meant. Also, I don’t think it’s the iOS issue (Did you update to the latest iOS software? Hope you did.) Perhaps you can feedback this issue to Google as Google Maps belong to Google.


Hope these helps.

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