Google Maps and Local Google launches in the UK

google have just launched a uk version at http://maps.google.co.uk/ they have
also launched http://local.google.co.uk/

complete with directions and services. now watch Multimap and Mapquest go under...

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Saint Firk wrote:
> google have just launched a uk version at http://maps.google.co.uk/ they
> have also launched http://local.google.co.uk/
>
> complete with directions and services. now watch Multimap and Mapquest
> go under...
>
Blows multimap out of the water in my opinion....Try typing in Liverpool
to Norwcih and it gives you a complete route in 1 single click with
zoomable junction details....

Nice the way the map scrolls, and it recognises Northrn Irish
postcodes....Something that Multimap always refused to do....

Yes, all in all, it gets my vote....

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David Preston wrote:
> David Preston wrote:
>
>> Saint Firk wrote:
>>
>>> google have just launched a uk version at http://maps.google.co.uk/
>>> they have also launched http://local.google.co.uk/
>>>
>>> complete with directions and services. now watch Multimap and
>>> Mapquest go under...
>>>
>> Hmmm, one would have thought they'd have used an up to date map,
>> though. The road I take to work every day has been open about 2 years,
>> but isn't shown.
>>
> And the route finding algo could do with some tuning.
>
I dunno, I thought it was pretty accurate...

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Fat Sam wrote:

>> And the route finding algo could do with some tuning.
>>
> I dunno, I thought it was pretty accurate...
>
I won't bore you all with the details, but it sent me through a
pedestrian area, then about 5 miles north, 2 west, and about 8 south to
get to a motorway junction about 5 miles south of the start. Oops, those
were most of the details... :-)


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David Preston wrote:
> Fat Sam wrote:
>
>>> And the route finding algo could do with some tuning.
>>>
>> I dunno, I thought it was pretty accurate...
>>
> I won't bore you all with the details, but it sent me through a
> pedestrian area, then about 5 miles north, 2 west, and about 8 south to
> get to a motorway junction about 5 miles south of the start. Oops, those
> were most of the details... :-)
>
>
LOL...When I did Liverpool to Pentney, it gave me the very route I
normally use....

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Fat Sam wrote:

>>
> LOL...When I did Liverpool to Pentney, it gave me the very route I
> normally use....
>
Since you're local and it might be of mild interest, I did Chorley to
Melton, Suffolk, and it sent me north on the M61 to the M65, then west
to the M6, then south. Surely south west to join the M6 at Standish
(J27) would have made more sense...


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Charles Sweeney wrote

> Now just to check if I can link to it by postcode, if so, Multimap and
> Mapquest might get the elbow as you suggest!

Hmmm. From what I can make of the terms, you can't link into it.

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