Best Online Mapping Site? 603
bbulzibar asks: "I've been using MapQuest most of my life, but now as my mind is slowly expanding, I want to see if Yahoo! Maps is a better service for driving directions. According to one article I have read, Yahoo! is better at displaying maps, but what about calculating directions? Does anyone have any experience with differences? For example, Yahoo! and MapQuest give differing routes to go from Bloomington, IN to Madison, WI." I particularly like MapBlast's "Line Drive" direction style -- what's your favorite online mapping software?
Seriously?! (Score:5, Funny)
HOLY SHIT do I feel old.
My exhaustive test!! (Score:3, Funny)
An alternative service (Score:5, Funny)
Don't visit Rhode Island! (Score:5, Funny)
"Go up this street to where the jewlery store burned down, take a left onto 6 and get off near where the old onramp used to be, then head towards Fort Thunder, which is now a Stop and Shop"
Seriously, that's how we give directions here. I didn't believe it until I caught myself doing it.
Re:Definitely MapQuest (Score:3, Funny)
For their first couple of years of operation, their database apparently had El Camino Real through Silicon Valley marked as a freeway. The driving directions would often tell you to stay on El Camino for about six miles, which considering there is an unsynchronized traffic light every three blocks, would get old fast. They appear to have fixed that problem some time ago, though.
that old guy... (Score:3, Funny)
Just git out here on the street and make a left. No, sorry, that's right. No, no, wait, left is right. Now, once you're headin' out that way, be shore to drive slow, cuzza dem potholes the danged gummint never fixes. I swear, those politicians never do a damned thang whut they don't hafta. Spendin' all that money on trips and whatnot, and never a thought atall about the little guy and his shocks.
Why, I remember, just last month, it was. Or maybe the month before that. No, no, it was last month, I remember because that was about the same time my rheumatism flared real bad-like, and I had ta go ta th'doctor, but a'course, he cain't do nuthin' 'bout it, and dat's after I spent FORTY-FIVE MINUTES waitin' in his little waitin' room, with alla dem sick people and squallin' brats. And then, my insurance company is buggin' me about payin' for it, too, since the doctor said he cain't do nuthin'. Anyway, yeah, it was last month, this purdy little lady was drivin' along this road, happy as you please, but not mindin' the potholes, and *wham*, she hit one uh dem big and deep suckers. Well, a'course, like so many young people these days, she was drivin' some foreign piece of shit, so it tore the hell outta that suspension. She damned near had an accident out there! Well, I gave her a good long talking-to about watching out for potholes and buying American, a'course, but she's a woman, so I'm sure she wasn't even listening...
Hey, buddy, where you goin'? I ain't done explainin' how t' get t' the highway!
Re:Seriously?! (Score:2, Funny)
Took you a while to figure it out, didn't it.
Re:Sweet Spot (Score:3, Funny)
If this is true, just remember that the marker is always on the wrong side, and you'll get the right answer 80% of the time. I suspect your real problem is that they're wrong about 50% of the time.
Re:Seriously?! (Score:3, Funny)
Do you really need to know how to install a clear window in your chasis along with a strip of LEDs that flash according to the ambient music, though?
Re:Security issues with MapQuest (Score:4, Funny)
Oh no! They'll find out the quickest path between all the porn and bong shops in the Indianapolis metro area! The horrors!