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Mapquest, Google Local, Yahoo Maps, etc. - there are many sites now that provide online maps and routing information.
These fall down, though, where you have a preferred route for part or all of the journey, but still want the printed directions, or where there is some fundamental flaw in the selected
route (very common around NYC). As an example, there is a highway route to the *east* of I-95 that completely bypasses the rush-hour traffic of Baltimore and Washington, that the routing sites do not pick up. As another example, one of the routing sites proposed I drive via the Throg's Neck Bridge to get to Long Island, more than a little bizarre when I was driving from Manhattan.
So I propose a feature whereby users can "nudge" the route, using the mouse to push it over onto a different road (or roads). The site would incorporate the change in the both the routing directions and the drawn maps.
Courtesy of [zero]
Bike_20RouteQuest
My suggestion on this idea came close, but is lacking in its ability to manipulate the route on the fly. Very nice. + [Shz, Nov 09 2005]
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MS Streets and Trips allows you to insert "waypoints" in your route so that you can direct the route in large ways but so that it can still optimize the route in smaller ways. |
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Not an online service, though, and not as intuitive as your proposed "nudging." |
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Hey, lookit - Google nMaps ow allows you to nudge your route!! |
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(They do it by inserting way points, like Bristol described above, but you do it by dragging the route line, so it's very much what I had in mind.) |
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