Google used to have an option to avoid interstates, IIRC. I guess
Google improved it away.
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.
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