What online map service do you use?

Question

I travel around the city for work and am wondering what map service is most perfered. i.e. mapquest, google maps, etc.

and...Is there a reason you perfer this website over others?

Answer 1

Use Mapquest if you want to drive past your destination and go around the block or if you just have some time to kill on the indirect scenic drive that they will send you on. Use Google if you want decent directions. Yahoo! isn't bad. I swear to God, Mapquest has jacked me around many times, once telling me to turn and go around a mile-long detour even though I could see my destination straight ahead, another time telling me to get on the freeway on a carpool-only onramp which required a two mile detour with no directions to find the right ramp, and more than once it has left out a street and got me lost. Google has never done this to me. I think people use Mapquest just by habit.

Answer 2

yahoo maps, cause mapquest is not up to date. They show you roads that are not there.

Answer 3

I like Google. B/C Then I can do a Satalite image to see anything of note that I can add to my directions, like a park or gas station. Any landmark is great also.

Answer 4

I don't use any mapping website, they just aren't reliable. I use a program called Microsoft streets and trips. It is the best mapping program out there. It has streets in the program that the web based ones can't find. It will also show you where construction zones are and such as that. Its a relatively inexpensive program as well at about 40 bucks.

It is a more user friendly program as well than what the web based ones are.

Answer 5

I use mapquest I think it is easier to use and I usually get the best results from mapquest the directions are percise and their is no way you can go wrong where as with other services they are not as clear and harder to use.

Answer 6

yahoo maps

Answer 7

mapquest,

the photo overlay feature really helps me off road

Answer 8

Try using Map Quest or google earth and/or it's maps. Also try using Yahoo maps, It's also located in google earth or flash earth!

Answer 9

Online map services are for chumps.

Answer 10

yahoo map quest is a lot more accurate then a lot of people think it is,i use it a lot,and it hasn't ever steered me wrong yet,i think the problem is some people don't really know how to use yahoo that well,and that may be why the get miss-led a lot,as for me i never have any problems from yahoo service,good luck.

Answer 11

i use google maps and sometimes yahoo maps...they seem to work

Answer 12

Mapquest