Cleaning up Google Maps

[ChrisGreaves]

http://alexwlchan.net/2013/08/google-maps/
I just tried this.
It works great.
It gets rid of the elephant-sized search box top-left of Google Maps.

Now for the rest of the junk ...

[Rudi]

elephant-sized
Chris, I dunno if its unintentional, but your humour is so funny!

Cheers for the jumbo tip.

[Claude]

Excellent! Another annoyance gone, thanks Chris!

[StuartR]

I now have this on my bookmarks toolbar, thank you.

[John Gray]

What a pity it couldn't go somewhere else - since I never used to display the Bookmarks toolbar!

[Rebel]

That's neat! I also have placed it on my bookmarks toolbar. Thanks Chris.

[ChrisGreaves]

Excellent! Another annoyance gone, thanks Chris!

Oh.
C'mon you guys.
Don't thank me.

Thank Alex Chan for his great work (and put pressure on him to get rid of all the other Google Crap on Google Maps).
Also thanks to all those humble electrons that keep Eileen's Lounge operating ...

[ChrisGreaves]

For our next trick:-
How to get rid of three more annoyances ...

[ChrisGreaves]

http://alexwlchan.net/2013/08/google-maps/
I just tried this. ...

(later)
Is it my warped imagination or has Google Maps changed yet again?
The little "Toggle" script is ineffective AND 1/3 my screen is taken up with crud.
OTOH there is a button that hides almost all the crud ...

(signed) "Tired of Change" of Cannington (maybe)"

[stuck]

Yes, it has changed again and yes, the toggle script doesn't hide the junk any more but...

If you click on the 'collapse side panel' tab, i.e. the little left pointing arrow that sticks out the top right corner of the nonsense then the whole panel slides away leaving only a tab with a right facing arrow on it that lets you reveal it again - if you want to.

Ken
edited to add: this is how they should have made it behave in the first place

[ChrisGreaves]

... this is how they should have made it behave in the first place

Thanks Stuck.
Yes, I saw the collapse and little arrow thing. I wanted to confirm that ToggleMaps was now inert.

(signed) "We didn't have all this chopping and changing about when we used 80-column punched cards" of Blue Jay City.

[stuck]

Toggle maps still does something, it toggles the search bar at the top of the side panel.

Ken

[viking33]

quote: Also thanks to all those humble electrons that keep Eileen's Lounge operating ...

There was a little ditty that was sung in Electronics 101 class.
( if you turn your audio way up high, you will probably hear the little lady electrons singing )

I'm a little electron, cute and pert,
Turn on your scope, look up my skirt,
etc, etc.

No nasty intent......just young innocence!

[ChrisGreaves]

Toggle maps still does something, it toggles the search bar at the top of the side panel.

Thanks Ken.