Now if only the Google maps (mobile version) devs would read this. On Android anyway, no matter how much you zoom the text labels on things like street and highway numbers will not enlarge.
5 years ago that wasn't the case.
Additionally the mid blue for the route obscures the street name.
Also 'Home' works on some GMaps but will take you to Home hardware, the Home Office etc in other versions.
Basically Google Maps is a summary of Google itself: the best data and pretty damn poor UX.
What astonishes me is how much GMaps doesn't learn. Every time I use the map to go to a place by car, my way back is back home. But it doesn't suggest it by default, and doesn't even get the hint when I type "home"...
To me, this is how IA will look. It knows you perfectly from a Bayesian perspective, but some product manager decided that the bayesian suggestion is the only place that won't be suggested to you...
Same for distance. There may be a restaurant called "The Place To Be" next to you, but it will ask for anything named "Place" within 1000km...
I've used multiple phones across continents but yet tend to suffer from the exact same problem. Strange!
The inverse problem exists on the browser, though - there's no way to resize the viewport on mobile.