For more than 5 years, Google Maps has been my favorite website. That's over! Their last "upgrade" makes it very user-unfriendly. I can no longer map out a multi-stop trip with miles between points that anyone can understand. Please tell me what other mapping program you use and like.Ideally, it should let me:* map multiple stops on your trip* drag and drop travel lines to vary the route.* have a running total of miles and estimated minutes for each leg with a grand total at the end.

Google Maps continues to have all of the features you describe. I just mapped out our route for an upcoming trip and was able to do everything you mentioned. So....

I feel the same way notably on the drag and drop feature. Nothing compares right now unfortunately.

rolling_rhoda wrote:For more than 5 years, Google Maps has been my favorite website. That's over! Their last "upgrade" makes it very user-unfriendly. I can no longer map out a multi-stop trip with miles between points that anyone can understand. Please tell me what other mapping program you use and like.My guess is your operating system is outdated, just as my iMac's now is, and doesn't deal well at all with these upgraded apps such as Google Maps, and if so I doubt that switching to some other mapping program will solve you problem. I have the same issue, the fix is a new computer running a current operating system ... it's called "designed in obsolescence". ;)

When my DMIL was alive and driving, I had to write directions for a bunch of 80 to 90 year old women and say it in a way they could understand and follow. Basically it was Take "X" street for 2.7 miles to "Y" street and turn left, drive 3.1 miles to ...Then I put in the name of the street just before her target street, Take "X" street and when you see "W" street, the next street is where you will turn left. I have used, MapQuest, MapBlast, Google Maps and Yahoo Maps and they were all take a street for a number of miles to another street and turn. Now they clutter up the direction with more and more info. As I said in a earlier post, K.I.S.S. Keep it simple sir. I don't think all this new and improved stuff is planned obsolescence, I think it's only a by product of the rapidly changing fields of most technologies. But at 75 I'm don't need to know all this new stuff. I worked for 33 years for the same outfit and found one day that I had to go back to school just to be able to talk to the hundred or so guys that worked for me. I decided I would retire and go camping and that's what we've been doing for 20 years so give me a map to confirm what GARMIN or AAA says and I'm happy.

We use Google Maps primarily but RV Parky (http://www.rvparky.com/) also has some good features.

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SoundGuy
Explorer
Jul 19, 2015
rolling_rhoda wrote:
For more than 5 years, Google Maps has been my favorite website. That's over! Their last "upgrade" makes it very user-unfriendly. I can no longer map out a multi-stop trip with miles between points that anyone can understand.

Please tell me what other mapping program you use and like.

My guess is your operating system is outdated, just as my iMac's now is, and doesn't deal well at all with these upgraded apps such as Google Maps, and if so I doubt that switching to some other mapping program will solve you problem. I have the same issue, the fix is a new computer running a current operating system ... it's called "designed in obsolescence". ;)
tsetsaf
Explorer III
Jul 19, 2015
I feel the same way notably on the drag and drop feature. Nothing compares right now unfortunately.
sch911
Explorer
Jul 19, 2015
Google Maps continues to have all of the features you describe. I just mapped out our route for an upcoming trip and was able to do everything you mentioned. So....

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