For the most part, I'm a big fan of Google's various products and services. My personal email is gmail, I often use google docs instead of Office, iWork, or Open Office. Heck, this blog is located at blogger, a Google entity.
Above all, I am a big fan of Google Maps. It is just a much smoother interface than Mapquest (or the godawful product known as Microsoft Maps), and I like how the directions interface works. Until today, I was a big fan of the ability to do custom routing.
Although I still find it to be a somewhat useful tool, I recognize now that it still has a way to go. Trying to chart the map of a road trip I took earlier in the day (more on this in a later post), I was about ready to pull my hair out. Often times it doesn't seem to get that I want to go a certain way, and does weird stuff instead, doubling back on itself, or routing itself way out of the way.
It was like moving heaven and earth just to get the damn thing to take the main road between SR 48 and Maroa, IL, always trying to take I 72 instead.
Maybe I'm just not using it right, or maybe I expected far too much. If any one reading this has some tips, or even possibly a better tool for this purpose, I would be interested to hear from you about this. The comments are open for discussion on this and other online mapping services.
See you out on the road!
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