I may be wrong as I wasn’t on the team when the Explore page was created, but I think the original idea was that this would at least move the map to a place the user entered and they could scroll around, use the Places of Interest menu, Redo search in Map, and so forth. Google had (and of course will always have) many more place names than we ever could. Definitely something to consider when we revamp the Explore page.
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