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Who uses, recommends or left Google Maps, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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American open-source program lead working on WordPress; a WordPress core contributor and release lead who writes at jeffpaul.com.
liked

Google Maps — preferred mapping app over Apple Maps or Waze.

His /uses page, a list of the hardware, software and tools he uses daily for work and life. The date here is the page's own article:modified_time metadata.

2025-05-14·jeffpaul.com ↗

Who disliked it

Dutch indie maker and solo founder of Nomads.com, Remote OK and Photo AI; writes about building bootstrapped products at levels.io.
disliked

Google Maps essentially really doesn't work in China, the location of our hotel Aman in Beijing for example was completely wrong

Contrasting Google Maps with Amap while travelling in China.

2025-12-13·levels.io ↗

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.

What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:

Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.