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My New Favorite Map Site

Friday | February 11, 2005

Computers, Travel

Google Maps

It is wonderful! Very easy to use interface, beautiful maps, real-time updating (at least on a high-speed connection). Goodbye MapQuest!

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7 Comments On This Post

  1. Dan Ellsworth / Dad Says:
    Friday | February 11, 2005 at 4:38 pm

    I’m 0.1+ “off”. Works with # Netscape 7.1+ and mine’s 7.0. Might download soon; just today got another indication of advisability of .1

  2. Matt Ellsworth Says:
    Friday | February 11, 2005 at 4:51 pm

    Your first problem is that you are using Netscape at all. You should be using Firefox. It adhere’s to more web standards than certainly IE and most others I’ve tried.

  3. MOM e Says:
    Friday | February 11, 2005 at 7:50 pm

    Search for 1089 South Michigan Road, Eaton Rapids, MI. Google Maps we are a little NORTH of Columbia. That’s no better than Map Quest!!!!!!

  4. Dan Ellsworth / Dad Says:
    Saturday | February 12, 2005 at 12:52 am

    I’ll consider that, but not tonight. My lady’s report is not encouraging. I was going to test whether it sent you from Eaton Rapids to Bryan, Ohio, by way of I-69 as Mapquest did. Thanks for the suggestion.

  5. Dan Ellsworth / Dad Says:
    Sunday | February 13, 2005 at 10:23 pm

    I got Firefox installed, ran Google Maps, it sent me out to I-69 to get from Eaton Rapids, MI, to Bryan, Ohio. Average speed 66 MPH, but well out of the way, and like Mapquest. Maps themselves might be better. Thanks for a look at it. I guess I’d been in a rut.

  6. Matt Ellsworth Says:
    Sunday | February 13, 2005 at 10:33 pm

    Yeah! You’ll also find that FireFox is more secure and you should have less trouble with Spyware and ‘Bots infecting your machine…

  7. Rose Anne Says:
    Thursday | February 24, 2005 at 12:41 pm

    I like Firefox too; Microsoft Explorer is my backup…sometimes one works and the other doesn’t. Speaking of maps, whatever happened to Mapquest’s aerial maps? I loved them and suddenly they disappeared. Anyone know of another site for aerial maps?