On Jun 8, 2011, at 5:39 PM, steve harley wrote: > On 2011-06-08 09:08 , John Sessoms wrote: >> The problem I'm having is Google hates the Blue Ridge Parkway so much >> that I run out of points to click and drag. I've also tried "Add >> Destination". > > Google Maps is a rather amazing tool that would have seemed like alien > technology twenty years ago; maybe in another 20 years it will read your > mind; in the meantime, have you tried Google Earth? you can draw routes with > as many points as you want, though you may not get turn by turn instructions > you should be able to easily get distance information
Back in the 1972-73 timeframe, I headed up a project which involved spending what seemed like a lot of the Army's money (AKA U.S. taxpayers' money) to have a private firm help me build an interactive tool to identify and display "best route" from A to B. It was primitive, but it worked. I thought it a great start to my career. Then a general officer (MG) visited for a demo. "Interesting" he said. "But why do I need that? Any experienced Army officer and most NCO's can tell the best way to get from A to B by just looking at the map." My boss consoled me and sent me back to the drawing board. That was the first of many attempts to build interactive decision tools; eventually I refocused on the people rather than the software and had better success. Back to the present, MapQuest and Google and similar applications are truly mind-bending for those who have any sense of what is going on behind the screen. Even if they can't always read your mind. stan -- 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.
