When I viewed your post I first thought how could I have missed those icons. I open my map for my trip home and there not there. Computers drive me crazy, but i am addicted. As I write this I am at a restaurant that has good reception and the route numbers showed up immediately.
Meet me at Shonney's in Lewisburg, WV and I buy you breakfast.
I raise the white flag. Google Maps has some oddities that I can't figure out all the time either, honestly. An example of something I think is awful is that on my computer, "Search Nearby" or "Nearby" [search], always shows, once I'm at an address or business on the page. Very handy! - as I'm constantly looking up an address and then seeing how close is a market, grocery, restaurant, etc.
Yet, on my phone, this super handy feature seems to just disappear - one of the most valuable in my opinion!
Mostly all I do on google maps is navigate.
Glad it came back! I just went to europe for a week and am all "travelled-out" for a while - and still have to take my daughter cross country to college. Maybe someday, as I'd love to see that part of the country!! Same here for Phoenix