Mapquest Directions Wrong

Mayfriday0529

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How many of you have found the direction on mapquest wrong or just even the maps.

I went on a business trip last week and check out the address of the hotel that i was staying at and the hotel I needed to go for the meeting and mapquest said it was 0.4 miles away and it showed a walk of about 3 blocks to the location. As I pull in into the hotel I notice the other hotel is just across the street, which was not a big deal but I had mapquest send me to the wrong town twice before.

Anyone else share similar stories.
 

I was going snowboarding and following the directions it took me almost 11 hours to get there. I eyed a map on the way back and it took a little under 7.
It was in WV so dont ask...
 

badmouse

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If you put in my (former) house as a "from" and the house next door as a "to", Mapquest takes you to a different state, in like 100 steps.
 

bleeb

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yeah one time I had an interview and it took me to a place like 20 minutes from where I was supposed to go...
 

IEC

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ariafrost says that computers don't know how to drive off road :p
 

CraigRT

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They are usually wrong in my findings... one time it told me to go right just before the destination... it was really suppose to be left, there was NO way you could get to the destination by going right, it was blatantly wrong... it's been wrong other times too, but not so blatantly. :p
 

Zee

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yeah i always double check on mapquest and mappoint.... that is until i got a navigation system in my car...
 

Phoenix86

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Try maps.yahoo.com, it gives better in town directions like when there is a Y instead of a T. Mapquest likes to tell you "turn right" where yahoo says "veer right." OK, well when the intersection is a Y with a T, Mapquest will tell you to "turn left" for the 90 degree turn and the 45 degree turn... Better know what the street names are, but if you knew that you wouldn't need a map. :roll:
 

Mayfriday0529

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another mapquest direction gone bad was, a map that told me to go south to the building i was looking for and i went around in circles for about 20 minutes, finally i took a look at the map and realized that it should be north instead of south.

 

Bootprint

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They probably only have an address for the location, and the roads are broken down to estimate the real addresses. So while it's not perfect, it'll get you to place probably 90 % of the time.

My Magellan and Garmin GPS maps are like that.
 

TwinkleToes77

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I stopped using Mapquest once it told me to turn West down a one way EASTbound road

I now use mapblast and havent noticed any wrong directions with it yet.
 

Night201

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I don't like MapQuest. I use Microsoft Streets and Trips - and with my GPS and Laptop when I can.
 

Perknose

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Originally posted by: badmouse
If you put in my (former) house as a "from" and the house next door as a "to", Mapquest takes you to a different state, in like 100 steps.
They were using the Columbus principle, go West to get East. Did you bring back slaves and trinkets?

 

tk149

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Mapquest sucks. It's given inaccurate maps several times. Once, it placed a movie theater half a mile away from where it actually was, and on the wrong side of the street.

I've been to some business's websites where they use Mapquest to generate maps on their location...and the maps are wrong. You'd think the genius who set those up would have noticed.
 

Train

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I used mapquest for directions to a concert once, it put me about 15 miles away, in the middle of some dinky neighborhood, i was looking for a 40,000 seat arena, i was like, wtf. Luckily the house that the the directions led me to had this old guy sitting out front, who told me EXACTLY how to get there, weird.
 
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mapquest screws up the last mile too often for my liking. i use mappoint. and streets and maps on the pocket pc. that software has saved my ass in new cities more often than i can count.
 

EyeMWing

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In this area, we have 4 roads with the same name with house numbers overlapping, and in some spots the same zip code. Mapquest LOVES that.