Saturday, December 24, 2011
Where To Find Freeware Maps?
Where can I find free downloadable mapping software online? One with driving directions and road maps in particular. I don't mean google earth or mapquest something that is downloadable and doesn't require internet. Basically a free program with preloaded maps of the United States.|||Theres always navman!
Tips on driving to Seattle. PLEASE HELP ASAP!!!!!?
I'm driving for the first time from Indiana to Seattle, Washington this summer. As I am bringing my two cats, who have never gone on a long car trip, I really need some suggestions fast. One of my friends told me that is was really hard driving from Chicago to Washington. What I want to know is how long did it take you. (please no going on Google maps and getting directions. I need real experience). Also do you have to drive through the Rocky Mountains? If so, is it very treacherous? Overall, is the drive rather easy? I need help ASAP cause I'm leaving in less than 20 days.|||The only thing hard about driving from Chicago to Washington on I-94/I-90 is how boring it can get. Although the country is beautiful, you have a long stretch of seeing pretty much the same thing for a lot of miles.
It took me 3 days to make that trip, but I need to stop and get out of the car and stretch every 3 or 4 hours and I don't like to do more than about 10-12 hours of driving per day. I get too tired and sleepy, especially if the highway is monotonous. I typically like to get going early in the morning and stop by 5 or 6 pm. I don't like driving after dark because it increases the chances of hitting a deer (or some other animal) which not only messes up the deer, but can do a lot of damage to your car. If you can handle driving longer without falling asleep at the wheel, you might be able to do it in less time.
Yes, you drive through the Rocky Mountains and also the Cascade Mountains, but it is not at all treacherous in the summer months.|||Yes, you must cross the Rockies. I once drove from Seattle to Chicago. It was about ten years ago. It is a long drive. It took us about 2 1/2 days and we stopped at hotels for the night. The toughest part is that it's very flat and very boring for most of the drive (North Dakota and Eastern Montana are especially boring). It can get very repetetive and hard to stay away the whole time. If you can just take your time and take lots of breaks along the way.|||I really can't add to Tori's answer. It is a good one.|||I to made the drive from Chicago to Seattle about ten years ago when I moved out here and had a similar experience on our drive as Kevin and Tori. Do you know some who can travel with you? I drove out with my dad, and it made the trip a lot more bearable to have someone in the car to talk to and kept us both awake. I also traveled with my cats and two dogs and have traveled quite a bit with cats to shows. One tip I can give you is you might want to map out some hotels along the route that are pet friendly. The La Quinta and Super 8 chains are two pet friendly hotels that I stay in quite frequently, and I know have lots of hotels across the US. Good luck on your trip.
It took me 3 days to make that trip, but I need to stop and get out of the car and stretch every 3 or 4 hours and I don't like to do more than about 10-12 hours of driving per day. I get too tired and sleepy, especially if the highway is monotonous. I typically like to get going early in the morning and stop by 5 or 6 pm. I don't like driving after dark because it increases the chances of hitting a deer (or some other animal) which not only messes up the deer, but can do a lot of damage to your car. If you can handle driving longer without falling asleep at the wheel, you might be able to do it in less time.
Yes, you drive through the Rocky Mountains and also the Cascade Mountains, but it is not at all treacherous in the summer months.|||Yes, you must cross the Rockies. I once drove from Seattle to Chicago. It was about ten years ago. It is a long drive. It took us about 2 1/2 days and we stopped at hotels for the night. The toughest part is that it's very flat and very boring for most of the drive (North Dakota and Eastern Montana are especially boring). It can get very repetetive and hard to stay away the whole time. If you can just take your time and take lots of breaks along the way.|||I really can't add to Tori's answer. It is a good one.|||I to made the drive from Chicago to Seattle about ten years ago when I moved out here and had a similar experience on our drive as Kevin and Tori. Do you know some who can travel with you? I drove out with my dad, and it made the trip a lot more bearable to have someone in the car to talk to and kept us both awake. I also traveled with my cats and two dogs and have traveled quite a bit with cats to shows. One tip I can give you is you might want to map out some hotels along the route that are pet friendly. The La Quinta and Super 8 chains are two pet friendly hotels that I stay in quite frequently, and I know have lots of hotels across the US. Good luck on your trip.
Blackberry software downloads for navigation?
Looking for something better than Google maps for navigation-driving directions, etc.|||i would recommend telenav.you get voice directions, maps, you can get turn by turn directions, choose locations based on restaurant, gas, etc, gps...hers how to download it... on your web browser go to wireless web, click get link, then go to download, on downloads choose gps applications, then choose telenav for your model of phone. if its nextel it will give you the icon and you can sign on after registering. if its sprint you have to call and get telenav added, and make sure they add telenav soc and not drive.. which customer care adds and it never works, and youll get a pin number in 24 hours
I am moving to austraillia?
I don't want to take a plane or boat to get there though. Google maps won't give me driving directions to brisbane, either. I am currently in the United States.|||Try www.randmcnally.com. They always give great directions!
Just don't forget your snorkel gear =)|||Maybe you could hire a submarine from the navy over there to get here or put a long bloody snorkel on your car and hope for the best, good luck with the travel plans.|||You may need to attach floatation devices to your car when you get to the ocean, after that you'll need oars. Yes, it still technically stays a car. Providing your car is sea worthy go south until you reach Caldera, Chile and head DIRECTLY west. *get a dashboard compass* and stay awake the whole trip to stay on course and you should be very close to the vicinity of Brisbane if you do it right.|||Well then I do hope that you are physically fit because it will be one hell of a swim.. but have yourself a great trip and if you make it to Perth.. on the far side of the Island.. be sure to tell the lads down at the beach bar closer to the reefs, that yes! I am back in the states and I do miss their lovely ladies..|||I hope you're kidding, right? Australia is an island in the South Pacific; there's no way to drive from the Continental US to Australia; you could try swimming (it's several thousand miles away, so I wouldn't recommend you attempt it). (Note the correct spelling of the Country, by the way!). (Lord, where do these people come from??)|||ERRRRRRR YOU CANT GO THEN M8 G,DAY|||just take highway one west out of l.a. or san francisco.
Just don't forget your snorkel gear =)|||Maybe you could hire a submarine from the navy over there to get here or put a long bloody snorkel on your car and hope for the best, good luck with the travel plans.|||You may need to attach floatation devices to your car when you get to the ocean, after that you'll need oars. Yes, it still technically stays a car. Providing your car is sea worthy go south until you reach Caldera, Chile and head DIRECTLY west. *get a dashboard compass* and stay awake the whole trip to stay on course and you should be very close to the vicinity of Brisbane if you do it right.|||Well then I do hope that you are physically fit because it will be one hell of a swim.. but have yourself a great trip and if you make it to Perth.. on the far side of the Island.. be sure to tell the lads down at the beach bar closer to the reefs, that yes! I am back in the states and I do miss their lovely ladies..|||I hope you're kidding, right? Australia is an island in the South Pacific; there's no way to drive from the Continental US to Australia; you could try swimming (it's several thousand miles away, so I wouldn't recommend you attempt it). (Note the correct spelling of the Country, by the way!). (Lord, where do these people come from??)|||ERRRRRRR YOU CANT GO THEN M8 G,DAY|||just take highway one west out of l.a. or san francisco.
Should Google sue this person for being stupid?
A woman named Lauren Rosenberg is suing Google for $100,000 after she walked onto a highway and got hit by a car while following Google Maps directions on her Blackberry. She disregarded, or didn't see, the warning that says: "Walking directions are in beta. Use caution - This route may be missing sidewalks or pedestrian paths." She also apparently didn't use common sense.
From Fortune:
Defendant Google, through its "Google Maps" service provided Plaintiff Lauren Rosenberg with walking directions that led her out onto Deer valley Drive, a.k.a. State Route 224, a rural highway with no sidewalks, and a roadway that exhibits motor vehicles traveling at high speeds, that is not reasonably safe for pedestrians.
The Defendant Google expects uses of the walking map site to rely on the accuracy of the walking directions given....
As a direct and proximate cause of Defendant Google's careless, reckless, and negligent providing of unsafe directions, Plaintiff Laren Rosenberg was led onto a dangerous highway, and was thereby stricken by a motor vehicle...|||Just one more reason that I'm glad I'm a technological idiot. I wouldn't have even the beginning of the faintest idea how to get myself killed using a "careless, reckless, and negligent" device like a Blackberry. Just this morning, I was wondering whether I could make some money by jabbing myself in the ear with my toothbrush and then suing the "careless, reckless, and negligant" toothbrush maker for failing to provide me with a booklet describing the millions of ways that a toothbrush could be bad for me if used improperly. By the way, why isn't plaintiff Rosenberg's loy-yah also suing Blackberry, and the builders of State Route 224, and the motorists who travel on it at high rates of speed, thereby making it unsafe for confused pedestrians to wander around on it?|||There was a gal in my college hometown several years back who was walking along a sidewalk reading a book, with her Walkman playing music in her ears. Poor girl stepped right into the path of an oncoming train and was killed instantly. Her parents sued the makers of Walkman, as well as the railroad. I am happy to report that they lost the suit, and the Walkman and railroad folks didn't have to pay a dime. Let's hope common sense prevails again.|||This is the sort of lawsuit that ruins it for us all. People are substituting the internet for using a bit of common sense. I have wondered how up-to-date Google and GPS is when there are detours on roads and it gives you the directions regardless of the detours.|||There is always a lawyer lurking to take these cases and stupid clients who hope they can make a fast buck. Hopefully, Google won't pay her off. Many companies do this just to avoid long expensive trials. They should go forward to teach others not to make frivolous lawsuits.|||Sometimes I have to wonder why God even tried to give us any common sense. some of us evidently do not use it! Good Heaven's, if they told her to walk into a fire, would she do that too? She's just money hungry.|||Another person not taking responsibility for her own actions and expecting a large payday.
As a pedestrian if you find an area unsafe for walking find another form of transportation to get to your destination.(DUH!!!)|||That's one of the most idiotic things i've
heard in a long time. I bet that stupid
bi*ch win's too. Only in america can you
be that stupid and get paid large sums of
money for. Welcome to america ;)|||File this under the lady who sued Mc Donald's for burning herself with the hot coffee. Unfortunately,that lady won and so will the stupid lady that didn't use any common sense.|||Just another fine example of user stupidity seeking litigation to get undeserved money for being an idiot without a chaperon.|||Sounds to me like another lazy person trying to get someone else to pay for her mistakes and probably her medical bills.|||nobody should be suing anybody for their own lack of plain common sense .ridiculous what people actually get paid out for being stupid .|||i don't think any1 should sue any1.
gosh y do american people (and i'm american) have 2 b so sueish (b nice for oncE)|||Being in beta is an up to scratch idea|||If I did that, I think I'd be trying to hide my identity.|||Stupid people are everywhere. I'm not sure of GOOGLes legal obligation, and only replying because of the Micky D coffee comment. The lady in question had a couple layers of skin removed because of boiling hot water, used for coffee. The burn was from her thigh to her knee, and the company did not provide a buffer cup. The heat was so intense that it fell from her burned fingers. Yeah she won.
This will be an interesting story to follow. Manufacturers have to use warnings for the most obvious of dangers because of lawsuits and injury's to dumb people.
From Fortune:
Defendant Google, through its "Google Maps" service provided Plaintiff Lauren Rosenberg with walking directions that led her out onto Deer valley Drive, a.k.a. State Route 224, a rural highway with no sidewalks, and a roadway that exhibits motor vehicles traveling at high speeds, that is not reasonably safe for pedestrians.
The Defendant Google expects uses of the walking map site to rely on the accuracy of the walking directions given....
As a direct and proximate cause of Defendant Google's careless, reckless, and negligent providing of unsafe directions, Plaintiff Laren Rosenberg was led onto a dangerous highway, and was thereby stricken by a motor vehicle...|||Just one more reason that I'm glad I'm a technological idiot. I wouldn't have even the beginning of the faintest idea how to get myself killed using a "careless, reckless, and negligent" device like a Blackberry. Just this morning, I was wondering whether I could make some money by jabbing myself in the ear with my toothbrush and then suing the "careless, reckless, and negligant" toothbrush maker for failing to provide me with a booklet describing the millions of ways that a toothbrush could be bad for me if used improperly. By the way, why isn't plaintiff Rosenberg's loy-yah also suing Blackberry, and the builders of State Route 224, and the motorists who travel on it at high rates of speed, thereby making it unsafe for confused pedestrians to wander around on it?|||There was a gal in my college hometown several years back who was walking along a sidewalk reading a book, with her Walkman playing music in her ears. Poor girl stepped right into the path of an oncoming train and was killed instantly. Her parents sued the makers of Walkman, as well as the railroad. I am happy to report that they lost the suit, and the Walkman and railroad folks didn't have to pay a dime. Let's hope common sense prevails again.|||This is the sort of lawsuit that ruins it for us all. People are substituting the internet for using a bit of common sense. I have wondered how up-to-date Google and GPS is when there are detours on roads and it gives you the directions regardless of the detours.|||There is always a lawyer lurking to take these cases and stupid clients who hope they can make a fast buck. Hopefully, Google won't pay her off. Many companies do this just to avoid long expensive trials. They should go forward to teach others not to make frivolous lawsuits.|||Sometimes I have to wonder why God even tried to give us any common sense. some of us evidently do not use it! Good Heaven's, if they told her to walk into a fire, would she do that too? She's just money hungry.|||Another person not taking responsibility for her own actions and expecting a large payday.
As a pedestrian if you find an area unsafe for walking find another form of transportation to get to your destination.(DUH!!!)|||That's one of the most idiotic things i've
heard in a long time. I bet that stupid
bi*ch win's too. Only in america can you
be that stupid and get paid large sums of
money for. Welcome to america ;)|||File this under the lady who sued Mc Donald's for burning herself with the hot coffee. Unfortunately,that lady won and so will the stupid lady that didn't use any common sense.|||Just another fine example of user stupidity seeking litigation to get undeserved money for being an idiot without a chaperon.|||Sounds to me like another lazy person trying to get someone else to pay for her mistakes and probably her medical bills.|||nobody should be suing anybody for their own lack of plain common sense .ridiculous what people actually get paid out for being stupid .|||i don't think any1 should sue any1.
gosh y do american people (and i'm american) have 2 b so sueish (b nice for oncE)|||Being in beta is an up to scratch idea|||If I did that, I think I'd be trying to hide my identity.|||Stupid people are everywhere. I'm not sure of GOOGLes legal obligation, and only replying because of the Micky D coffee comment. The lady in question had a couple layers of skin removed because of boiling hot water, used for coffee. The burn was from her thigh to her knee, and the company did not provide a buffer cup. The heat was so intense that it fell from her burned fingers. Yeah she won.
This will be an interesting story to follow. Manufacturers have to use warnings for the most obvious of dangers because of lawsuits and injury's to dumb people.
I need help with directions!?
How do i get to 200 south main Street, Las Vegas Nevada, from highway 160 without taking the freeway,i am asking because my mom has to drive there and Google maps won't give me directions without taking the freeway and my mom is terrified of the freeway..thanks ahead of time!!|||From 160, take decatur north. Stay on Decatur a LOOONG way. Make a right on Charleston. Take Charleston to Main street and make a left. Voila|||FYI - we have no idea where you are, so how would we know how to get you there.
How to avoid tri-state tollway in Indiana?
I'm driving from Texas to Michigan. I have gotten directions from Map Quest and Google Maps and both direct me through tri-state tollway in Indiana. How can I avoid this? I really can't afford the cost.|||Try MapQuest and Google Maps again, this time clicking the "Avoid toll" box on the webpage and recalculating. (This shows up after you hit the "Show options" hyperlink at Google Maps. At MapQuest it will show up in the blue box to the right.) You didn't say where you were going to in Michigan, and that might make a difference.
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If all else fails, plan on driving really slowly to Michigan to improve your gas mileage and save money in that way. (And yes, this really does work if you drive slowly enough, though it'll drive you half-mad before you've reached your destination.)|||the gas and time it takes to get out of the way of these booths isn't worth it because gas costs money and your just wasting time.
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If all else fails, plan on driving really slowly to Michigan to improve your gas mileage and save money in that way. (And yes, this really does work if you drive slowly enough, though it'll drive you half-mad before you've reached your destination.)|||the gas and time it takes to get out of the way of these booths isn't worth it because gas costs money and your just wasting time.
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