2/28 Yahoo maps is fallible--or rather driving directions that it gives.
Led me and my friend on a wild goose chase on Sat: didn't even
end up at the right place. Don't trust it. --PeterM
\_ print maps you buy a t a bookstore are often very unreliable also.
i have yet to see a map that really accurately gives locations of
all the highway exits and such, and short of USGS quad maps or
NOAA charts, ive yet to see a map that doesn't screw up the
topography. good mapmaking is not cheap or easy. even the NOAA
charts go out of date constantly. trusting a 2 year old NOAA
chart can cost you your life.
\_ I got lucky. My chart was out of date and I ended up in
Harlem but Robocop saved my life!
\_ What a concept! Don't trust something you get off the internet!
Its a handy tool, it isn't perfect. It always pays to double
check what you're doing, especially if you might end up
in Montana when you were trying to go to Mountain View and
you aren't smart enough to realize that it is taking way
too long once you start going.
\_ Don't trust anything you hear on the net including motd
advice about not trusting anything you hear on the net or
motd advice about not trusting motd advice about not
trusting things you hear on the net or ....
\_ mapquest
\_ it does present you with a big disclaimer you know
\_ yahoo bites in many ways. use http://www.mapsonus.com
\_ learn to navigate. I tried tripquest once, and it tried to
run me down a street that the cops closed that night for some
street fair.
\_ Actually, I told my friend to let me navigate from now on.
I didn't know Yahoo maps was fallible: I do a much better
job with a roadmap than Yahoo. --PeterM
\_ Yahoo does plot addresses along streets which roadmaps
can't quite tell you. -jeffwong
\_ I've had bad luck with yahoo too (non-existant offramps) while
http://mapsonus.com has yet to fail me. -jones
\_ Yahoo maps is really using MapQuest's database. You need
to blame it on MapQuest. At any rate, MapQuest is a standard
industry product, and MapsOnUs is a standard academia product.
INDUSTRY SUX AND ACADEMIA R3WLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
\_ Please turn in your keyboard, mouse, monitor, drives, amp,
speakers, and all other industry created devices and
technologies and report to Food Vat #16-b for Foot Vat
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