On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 10:09 AM, P. J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > Google used to have an option to avoid interstates, IIRC. I guess Google > improved it away.
Its still there you just have to go look for it. Dave > > On 6/6/2011 12:18 PM, Stan Halpin wrote: >> >> When I rode my motorscooter from KC up to our new place in Michigan last >> fall, Google Maps wanted to put me on Interstates. I was able to >> click-and-drag the mapped route onto state and county roads, Google Maps >> then recomputed distances, times for me. I seem to recall that I had to put >> in extra way points to make this work smoothly . . . >> >> On Jun 6, 2011, at 11:55 AM, 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. >> > > > -- > Where's the Kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering Kaboom! > > --Marvin the Martian. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
