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monster
Citizen
Username: Monster
Post Number: 515
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 8, 2005 - 9:15 am: |     |
http://maps.google.com/
fins it to be a heck of lot more responsive than the other map services out there. |
Earlster
Supporter
Username: Earlster
Post Number: 953
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 8, 2005 - 9:22 am: | |
Wow, short of using MS MapPoint native on my PC this is by far the fastest and most interactive mapping tool that I have ever seen.
You have to be impressed with them, whatever they do they just do it right. Easy to use, fast no, cool. |
greenetree
Supporter
Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 3833
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 8, 2005 - 10:51 am: | |
This is just too great. Mapquest - buh-bye! |
Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 5398
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 8, 2005 - 11:07 am: | |
I'm speechless. |
bella
Citizen
Username: Bella
Post Number: 480
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 8, 2005 - 11:38 am: | |
wow. I didn't think that I would ever be so impressed by a map. |
Wendyn
Supporter
Username: Wendyn
Post Number: 1338
Registered: 9-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 8, 2005 - 12:00 pm: | |
Darn, I get runtime errors when I try to access the page. I'll have to try at home. |
Mark Fuhrman
Citizen
Username: Mfpark
Post Number: 1255
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 8, 2005 - 12:08 pm: | |
Google Map is very very fast in adjusting scale and location. Very clear, also.
I also like to use www.map24.com. This site allows you some cool options, like avoiding toll roads, finding fastest way. However, the thing is loaded with advertising which limits the pleasure of using it. |
Earlster
Supporter
Username: Earlster
Post Number: 955
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 8, 2005 - 12:23 pm: | |
Now if they would allow way points, that would be really coold.
Imagine you could just query:
"Maplewood, 07040, to Greenwich, CT, via Tappan Zee Bridge." |
Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 5404
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 8, 2005 - 12:35 pm: | |
Earlster, http://www.mapsonus.com has that option. It also has four route options:
- fastest route
- shortest route
- avoid major highways
- favor major highways
Trying all four will give you interesting routes. You can incorporate SOME of their wacky ideas into your routes. Sometimes, their suggestions seem crazy but aren't. You learn a little.
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Earlster
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Username: Earlster
Post Number: 956
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 8, 2005 - 1:23 pm: | |
Tom, thanks for the link. I have seen the feature on a view other services. I would just wish it was part of the google maps, that are so much better then all the others.
But, then I have all of it with MapPoint on my PC and better yet laptop, which means it works on the road, without being connected to the internet. |
Cathy
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Username: Clkelley
Post Number: 676
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 8, 2005 - 2:57 pm: | |
This is great .... thanks for the link ...
Do any of these mapping services let you set your own route or "tweak" the route they give you? That's been on my wish list for a long time. I'm always zooming in on the side streets to see what back ways I can figure out, and I'd like to be able to save my work. :-)
BTW and OT - Google Desktop search is awesome, don't know if anybody has mentioned that here yet. I've had it about two weeks and already can't live without it.
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Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 5406
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 8, 2005 - 3:03 pm: | |
The only one that lets you tweak your route is http://www.mapsonus.com and they don't make it easy. You can set an intermediate destination. So if, for instance, you are going to Westchester and you want to take the Tappan Zee bridge instead of the George Washington bridge, you have to figure out which intersection is near that bridge and list it as an intermediate destination. It's a lot of struggle. But I have done it occasionally. |
Phil
Supporter
Username: Barleyrooty
Post Number: 864
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 9, 2005 - 2:50 am: | |
that's really cool. i also noticed today that maps.yahoo.com has a "show traffic" button - pretty cool |
Debby
Citizen
Username: Debby
Post Number: 1650
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 9, 2005 - 6:41 am: | |
I hate mapquest - it always gives the stupidest directions. It also bothered me that it only uses Rt #s, not coloquial names or any names of bridges - just the Rt. that traverses it. Does Google correct this? |
Dave
Moderator
Username: Dave
Post Number: 5220
Registered: 4-1998
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 9, 2005 - 9:21 pm: | |
how do google maps work, you ask?
http://jgwebber.blogspot.com/2005/02/mapping-google.html (technical) |
Dave
Moderator
Username: Dave
Post Number: 5232
Registered: 4-1998
| | Posted on Thursday, February 10, 2005 - 10:51 am: | |
Good to know for once I was 2-3 years ahead of the curve
http://www.davidrossdesign.com/bca
http://www.downtownnewark.com/p-mapzoom.php?x=3&y=3 |
greenetree
Supporter
Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 3853
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, February 10, 2005 - 10:55 am: | |
Dave-
Before you start bragging about your fore-sightedness, I'd like to know why you didn't share with us all earlier? Why did we have to hear it from Monster?  |
Meandtheboys
Citizen
Username: Meandtheboys
Post Number: 165
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, February 10, 2005 - 11:10 am: | |
Cool-ness! It's like a game even. |
Cathy
Supporter
Username: Clkelley
Post Number: 680
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, February 10, 2005 - 3:51 pm: | |
I've been telling everybody I know about maps.com. We're all addicted.
The weirdest thing is - as soon as I got on the site, I googled my house. Then I used the drag thing to follow my route to work. (Yes, I'm avoiding something I don't want to do.)
I told a guy who works here about maps.google.com. First, he googles his house. Second, he drags the map all the way to work.
Later I dragged the map from home all the way to my mom's house outside Philadelphia.
OK fess up - what did you google? I want to know if it is some form of local insanity to follow the map from home all the way to work, or to some other place you already know the way to, or is this a more general phenomenon. |
greenetree
Supporter
Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 3864
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, February 10, 2005 - 3:54 pm: | |
You can drag???
Gee, thanks. Like I needed another distraction... |
Meandtheboys
Citizen
Username: Meandtheboys
Post Number: 174
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Friday, February 11, 2005 - 7:56 am: | |
I Googled a good friend's address in Utah. She moved recently and I haven't been lucky enough to visit yet. I always like to be able to visualize things in my head, so I googled her exact address. I learned that I take Highland to Rambling to Magic Wand (wacky name for a road) to her street. Saw the streets were curvy instead of straight, and that she lives near a golf course called, ironically, South Mountain Golf Course.
Just a wacky thing I had fun doing, but now I kind of feel I have a better idea about where she lives. |
kathy
Citizen
Username: Kathy
Post Number: 1054
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, February 11, 2005 - 3:24 pm: | |
The maps are great but I tried a couple of their directions and they were both weird--probably because they were too reliant on Interstate/national highways. To get to South Orange from the south, Google told me to get off the Turnpike at Exit 10 and find my way to 287 north to 78 east, instead of taking the Parkway. And to Ithaca, it had me go on I-81 north all the way to Cortland, and then back south on Rte. 13. In both cases the accompanying map showed the routing to be the long way around.
Since it seems to be in beta, maybe they can fix this. Mapquest often leads us into blind alleys (literally) and I always think of them when I see the auto insurance commercial where the car is being pulled out of the lake and the guy says "The map was a disappointment." |
Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 5446
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Friday, February 11, 2005 - 4:55 pm: | |
kathy, I can't replicate this problem. I asked http://maps.google.com for a route from Holmdel to South Orange and another one from Trenton to South Orange. Both routes were very sensible. What town did your route start in? |
suzanneng
Citizen
Username: Suzanneng
Post Number: 265
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Friday, February 11, 2005 - 5:13 pm: | |
Apparently this new feature does not work with the Safari browser (but they are working on it!) |
kathy
Citizen
Username: Kathy
Post Number: 1055
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, February 12, 2005 - 1:02 pm: | |
Tom, I started in Chevy Chase, MD which is where I currently live. It's fairly sensible as far as the Turnpike, but gets off at an odd place. |
Meandtheboys
Citizen
Username: Meandtheboys
Post Number: 186
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, February 12, 2005 - 2:10 pm: | |
O.K. I just got some pretty stupid directions. Sorry.
Planning a trip to Lancaster County next weekend and plugged in the info. My address in Maplewood and thiers in Narvon, PA. Didn't even have to read the directions to know how stupid they were. The map shows me getting on 78 west (O.K. so far)to 287 south (stupid) just to head back east (well, technically southeast) and pick up the turnpike!
What's that about? |
jeffl
Supporter
Username: Jeffl
Post Number: 981
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Monday, February 14, 2005 - 9:20 am: | |
Someone help me with this. I've seen mapquest and mapsonus and the google version. What do you mean by dragging and googling an address? Is googling an address any different from what you used to do on mapquest? |
Cathy
Supporter
Username: Clkelley
Post Number: 685
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Monday, February 14, 2005 - 11:45 am: | |
I think I used this word first here, so I'll explain why I did. It's a google product. So therefore, when I want to find a map for a place, I'm "googling the address." Or I guess you could "google the directions." So it is equivalent to what you do on mapquest, but since you're using google, you're "googling" it.
As to dragging - once you get your little map on the screen, drag it around with your mouse and you'll see what I mean. You pretty much have a street map of the entire United States, and you are only seeing one tiny little window of it. But you can drag and see the whole entire map. (which I think is amazing.)
I didn't know you could do this until I read the technical stuff that Dave linked (99% of which I didn't understand). It isn't obvious that you can drag the map, but you can. |
jeffl
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Username: Jeffl
Post Number: 982
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Monday, February 14, 2005 - 2:59 pm: | |
Thanks Cathy. Now I git it. |
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