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- 46HudsonPU July 2010
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mapquest - error
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I checked mapquest's directions to a So Cal chapter get together, at Mullins Automotive Museum in Oxnard, Ca. from Burbank, Ca.
Instead of going west about 50 miles to Oxnard, mapquest's direction went east about 3000 miles to New York City, NY.
Go figure. Lee -
Well, Lee, NYC likes Hudson too. LOL
Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN -
Some common Mapquest beefs-
Why can't you just have it start at about step 6 or so? I've become pretty good at finding the interstate from my house. . .
Would be nice if it knew where things like rivers are- one time I could see my destination across the river- just wish there would have been a bridge there. . .
I used it to go to a Hudson meet one time in northwest Oregon- it routed me over Cornelius Pass, which is a twisty, turny (but not real high) mountain pass- but it was kind of fun, the mighty Hornet pulled the whole thing in third, and I met the Mini Cooper club on a run, coming from the other direction- gots lots of thumbs up! Looked at a real map later, and if I'd gone about a mile further up the Columbia River, I'd have had a straight shot at my destination. But not as much fun. . . -
I'm a paper-map-kinda-guy! Never had a problem with a plain old folding map. I learned how to read those when I was about three or four. I used to amaze my parents and their friends when they could place a map of the US in front of me, at age FOUR; they could give me an origin and a destination, and I could plot out an accurate course on that map.
I've found mapquest and other online "maps" highly suspect. I've seen where a suggested route took a tour THROUGH what has been a water reservoir for at least fifteen years!"The time has come", the Walrus said, "to speak of many things. Of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings. And why the sea is boiling hot,
And whether pigs have wings..." -
Have had somewhat similiar issues with my GPS. Maps in it are only about 2 years old, but have found myself 'going cross country' on more than one occasion!
Guess I should update it - eh, maybe in a few years...
