This is SOO what Yahoo Maps have turned into

[neomits]

LOL


I have tried to use Yahoo maps 3 times this summer and it seems to only know th biggest highways and so.... thats the way it takes you. It has no concept of smaller, quicker roads.

I'm going back to MS Streets and Trips

 

[pyonir]

when we drove to denver we tried to use the directions to find our hotel. No where NEAR where we had to go. yahoo maps suck.

 

[rh71]

I never use those online services unless I have to. I have MS Mappoint 2002. Awesome program... never used MS Streets and Trips. Wonder how they're different and why MS put out 2 different proggies for the same purpose?

 

[SendTrash]

Originally posted by: rh71
I never use those online services unless I have to. I have MS Mappoint 2002. Awesome program... never used MS Streets and Trips. Wonder how they're different and why MS put out 2 different proggies for the same purpose?

for the bling-bling?

Maybe one is for home users and the other is professional...

 

[neomits]

Originally posted by: rh71
I never use those online services unless I have to. I have MS Mappoint 2002. Awesome program... never used MS Streets and Trips. Wonder how they're different and why MS put out 2 different proggies for the same purpose?

yeah.. what the heck? I'd never heard of Mappoint

 

[Azraele]

Lol.

I used yahoo maps a few years ago to give directions to friends who were visiting. At one point the map suggested they "turn right on un-named road."

 

[rh71]

Hmm I guess this page explains the differences: http://www.microsoft.com/mappoint/

Strange that I don't use Mappoint for what it states (trends?!). You can just as easily enter a route and ask it to calculate, etc. for you. Type in an address and it points it out to you. Cost of trip by cost of gas, mileage, etc. Even update construction info via the internet. Maybe it's a more powerful version of Streets and Trips?

 

[Rahminator]

mapquest never failed me.

 

[diskop]

Haha Penny Arcade is great.

 

[JeremyJoe]

Yahoo maps are always like a block off when i search for something it major league suxs


Second the comment on Penny Arcade is Great

 

[amnesiac]

Originally posted by: Rahminator
mapquest never failed me.

Try using it in a major metropolitan area.

I use mapblast. It's fairly accurate until you get into places with lots of smal parallel streets then it gets confused.

 

[trmiv]

The worst problems I've had with yahoo maps is for San Francisco driving. A few times the Yahoo maps have told me to turn right on a street, then when i get to the street I find out it's a one way (like 90% of the streets in SF), and it's going the opposite way the Yahoo map told me to turn.

 

[rh71]

A problem you're always going to come across with these route calculators is that they'll indeed choose the shortest route for you or the quickest route... meaning: (ie. they'll get you off the highway for 1 exit and then back on if that'll save you time... or if it's logically shorter).

LOL.

 

[pulse8]

Originally posted by: amnesiac 2.0

Originally posted by: Rahminator
mapquest never failed me.

Try using it in a major metropolitan area.

I use mapblast. It's fairly accurate until you get into places with lots of smal parallel streets then it gets confused.

I use it around LA and have NEVER had a problem with it.