Most of us take a screenshot of Google Maps and then use paint to trace our route. This is a royal pain in the *** and shouldn't be necessary given today's technology. Enter the Yahoo Maps beta, which has introduced a waypoint system. Now all you have to do is right-click on the map where you want to start and select "Drive from here..." to set point A. Then you just right-click around the map where you want to end up, setting a "Drive to here..." point for the important turns along the way. The site designates the coordinates as a waypoint and maps out all the turns between as your various markers. It's currently not smart enough not to take the fastest route so it might force you on roads you don't want. To couteract this all you have to do is set a waypoint on the road you really want to force it that way.

Google may do a lot of things better but this destroys them for adaptability. On other sites, including Google I would get the most direct route from A to D or enter intersections manually for force it, which sucks if I want to take the long road. Not so the Yahoo beta.

Visit http://maps.yahoo.com and make sure you're on the beta.

 

thats hot

 

But does it have hybrid sat images like this

Palomar

 

ummm... yes?

http://maps.yahoo.com/#mvt=h&m...mag=3

In my area the Yahoo satellite images are far more recent. My house, built in 2001, is a patch of dirt in Google and I only live 20 miles outside of DC.

 

Your link doesnt work but yeah yahoo maps isnt bad. Flash-based instead of ajax.

 

Browntown

lol.

 

Thanks Chris. Definitely going to use this on the next ride...at least to get a general idea. We usually stray from the route...and that's where my gigantic atlas comes into play.

 

socal/norcal>nova

 

East Cost > West Coast --- VA > CA --- VA > MD --- Us > You

 

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Ditto!