Google Maps, New England style

[cos]

I just got the Google Maps version of "You can't get theah from heah!"

I'm planning a road trip for this summer, and using Google Maps to help me figure out distances on unfamiliar variants of cross country routes, and what stops make sense between one place and another. I just tried to get a route from Tempe, Arizona (new home of listgirl) to Hillsdale, NY (approximate site of Falcon Ridge Folk Festival).

This was Google's answer:


"We could not calculate driving directions between Tempe, AZ and Hillsdale, NY."

Comments

[tisiphone.livejournal.com]

Navteq and Tele Atlas NA are the two main players in the auto navigation GIS field (as well as most other GIS applications, actually) in North America. I can't really get you specific information on them (I'm at work, and that might raise eyebrows) but their data gathering methods are markedly different from TANA's; sometimes, in a good way, sometimes in a bad way.