techcrunch.com— Since it seems that every search engine has their own mapping service, TechCrunch has done an excellent roundup of the ones out there right now and declares a winner.
Apr 18, 2006View in Crawl 4
Google Maps seems to be the most light-weight and responsive. Good for a quick search. Yahoo on the other has the most useful features and API. I understand why he went with Yahoo as the overall. Great digg.
Another thing I love about Map24 is that you can input your predicted travel speeds to better guage your time on the road. Mapquest and the others will assume you're going to do the speed limit and give you an inflated estimate. On Map24 I can tell it I'm going to average 80mph on the highway and it calculates it more accurately.
I understand that for your uses so far google has been accurate, but for me, it's been horrible for directions. I love google maps for the maps/satellite/usability alone but I would *never* trust it for directions anymore. This isn't just google, I might add. I find the same disappointing results on all BUT MapQuest.A search on anything but mapquest gives me too many turns or sends me hours out of my way, literally. A 6 hour trip on anything but mapquest gives 7.5, sending me in a "Z" shape instead of more along the lines of a bracket.Going to a Sam's Club, google maps sends me down into a neighborhood, the wrong way... MapQuest (I checked when I got back...) sent me the right direction.That's been my experience, so for directions, I'll stick to MapQuest and leave Google for the slick GUI.
Actually Google Maps has almost no coverage outside the US. True, they recently added new satelite images in some countries, but if you want street information, only the US, Canada, and the UK has any street data at all! Which mapping site has the best world coverage? You may not have even heard about it, but it's <a class="user" href="http://www.maporama.com.">http://www.maporama.com.</a> I did a ton of research on the mapping services and sites to figure out which one to use for a travel site, and Maporama has by far the best world coverage of anyone out there right now. Oh, but the interface is crap compared to the new ones like Google and Yahoo.
bloodjunkieApr 18, 2006
Google Maps seems to be the most light-weight and responsive. Good for a quick search. Yahoo on the other has the most useful features and API. I understand why he went with Yahoo as the overall. Great digg.
scagnettiApr 18, 2006
Another thing I love about Map24 is that you can input your predicted travel speeds to better guage your time on the road. Mapquest and the others will assume you're going to do the speed limit and give you an inflated estimate. On Map24 I can tell it I'm going to average 80mph on the highway and it calculates it more accurately.
echoicApr 18, 2006
This is a sham, Virtual Earth is always getting shafted by fanboys. It has shortcut keys and favorites. No digg.
d03boy_Apr 18, 2006
I'm going to stab the next person to use the word 'fanboy'.
mrstylzApr 18, 2006
I understand that for your uses so far google has been accurate, but for me, it's been horrible for directions. I love google maps for the maps/satellite/usability alone but I would *never* trust it for directions anymore. This isn't just google, I might add. I find the same disappointing results on all BUT MapQuest.A search on anything but mapquest gives me too many turns or sends me hours out of my way, literally. A 6 hour trip on anything but mapquest gives 7.5, sending me in a "Z" shape instead of more along the lines of a bracket.Going to a Sam's Club, google maps sends me down into a neighborhood, the wrong way... MapQuest (I checked when I got back...) sent me the right direction.That's been my experience, so for directions, I'll stick to MapQuest and leave Google for the slick GUI.
jerryleelewisApr 18, 2006
true dat
orrdApr 18, 2006
Actually Google Maps has almost no coverage outside the US. True, they recently added new satelite images in some countries, but if you want street information, only the US, Canada, and the UK has any street data at all! Which mapping site has the best world coverage? You may not have even heard about it, but it's <a class="user" href="http://www.maporama.com.">http://www.maporama.com.</a> I did a ton of research on the mapping services and sites to figure out which one to use for a travel site, and Maporama has by far the best world coverage of anyone out there right now. Oh, but the interface is crap compared to the new ones like Google and Yahoo.