There are a couple of things going on here. Obe is that Google tries to give you the fastest route between your origin and the destination, so you're likely to end up on interstate highways. If you force the route to go along Skyline drive (by dragging intermediate points), you'll see another one of the contributing factors. The driving directions get red-flagged with the message "This road my be seasonally closed".
On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 11:55:03AM -0400, John Sessoms wrote: > Google maps allows you to make routes and get driving directions by > marking locations for "Directions from here" and "Directions to > here". Gives distances and turns, etc. > > BUT ... > > If you're trying to find the distance between two points on the Blue > Ridge Parkway, fageddaboutit! > > I'm trying to plot out a fall color trip. I want to drive up to the > north entrance to Shenandoah National Park's Skyline Drive and make > my way all the way down to the southern terminus of the Blue Ridge > Parkway down at Great Smokey Mountains National Park in Cherokee, > NC. > > The most direct route is straight down Skyline Drive to the Blue > Ridge Parkway, but Google won't have it. Does OK for the trip up to > Front Royal, VA and for the trip back home from Cherokee, NC. > > But it just won't give me a map that goes along the parkways. > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 10.0.1382 / Virus Database: 1511/3683 - Release Date: 06/05/11 > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
