Does Mapquest stink?
I love it...but I've not used other services. This topic is spawned from "Name of Town on the west side of Tappen Zee bridege? (or, why does Mapquest stink?)"<BR><BR>What's your pleasere? Mapquest, Rand McNally, other?
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I use good old fashion road maps and atlas. I like to plan my own trips.
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I like Mapquest, but it's not always accurate in local addresses. Good for long term distances and planning though.
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Try:<BR>http//www.freetrip.com
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MapQuest is good for pinpointing a location but I don't like their directions...except as a general starting point.<BR><BR>AAA has a decent program as well. However I agree with kkj. I do my own, thank you very much.
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I never rely solely on MapQuest -- it can get things way out of whack, it doesn't give you critical street names, etc. etc. I let it find something if I have no idea where to look, then I transfer what it found to a "real" paper map or another on-line map and compare the two. Usually, MapQuest gets me in the neighborhood but I have to use something else (good old AAA or Rand McNally) for accuracy to actually GET there.
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Of course I always look at old fashioned road maps (who doesn't?) but I look to sites like Mapquest to give me estimates of driving times, alternate routes, etc. Mapquest is not very good. I just discovered Rand McNally and right from the home page it offers alternatives and is easier to use.<BR><BR>They could really improve their site by adding options, or asking which route (interstate) you would like to take. I'll have to check out AAA and Mapblast, which I also just learned of, to see which is the easiest to use and offers the most options.<BR><BR>I think Mapquest.com is an example of being the first (and therefore most popular) site of it's kind, but not the best. It's number one, it doesn't have to try harder.
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Howard: checked out freetrip.com. The directions were quite good (better than MApquest) but the times stated leave a lot to be desired. Example: For a route I requsted the time to get from 14th ST and 3rd AVe. to the Holland Tunnel was 3 minutes. Not in this lifetime. It takes 3 minutes to get to 5th Ave. if you are lucky.
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I hate Mapquest too. For online maps I use Expedia maps. Great driving directions too.
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One very cool thing about Mapquest (learned from another poster in a Hawaii thread): they have "Aerial View" tabs on many of their maps. I could see my house in clear detail!<BR><BR>Their directions can be downright silly though...
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I agree. On our family's recent trip, the directions given on their trip-plan were often reversed, which was very confusing {ie turn left instead of right}. It wouldn't have been so bad if they reversed the directions consistantly, but they didn't. Ended up chucking the map program altogether and using our "old fashioned" road atlas!
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