No, not the all singing all dancing Google Earth, but the one I use everyday kind of Google Maps.
In Melbourne they have finally added two roads… one a small one being the South Road Extension.
And the other being that small road… Eastlink.
The interesting thing is also they are playing catch up with my Nokia. The Maps on my phone had both of these roads already)…
However Google still have one advantage over my phone and thus why I use them primarily to work out routes to and from places… the large web interface.
I can drag and drop routes and get a quick print out. Now I know that Nokia have something in the pipeline to do this then transfer that to your phone and when that comes I may stop using google maps as much. But until then I will.
But unlike a paper map, I have the update, but disappointingly like some things there is no change log or notification of these updates.
Of course there are still glaring errors. One of the biggest things about driving in Melbourne is the trams… for starters they don’t get out the way and secondly the will sit behind you and ding the bell if you are trying to do a legal right hand turn because they feel like it. So when trying to work out where I am going I do tend to avoid roads with trams…..
And Google Maps seems to not have a lot of them… Hawthorn Road, Caulfield for example has a tram running its entire length…
Sometimes it would be handy to know when the mapping data is from when trying to plan a route. But then it just could be that I am a mapping nut and no one else actually cares 🙂
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