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Routes / Re: Getting Across The Desert
« on: January 18, 2011, 07:14:49 pm »
I have yet to have an issue with using google maps. In fact, it has worked out so well that I sold off the ACA maps I had bought. When I planned my first leg to Las Vegas from Massachusetts the route Google provided was exactly the route that forum members had suggested and automatically incorporated available trails and bike paths.
Yes, Google's bike mapping is useful, but can lead you astray, especially on less traveled routes. For instance, in eastern Washington, Google's bike route would have had me crossing not only the US Army's Yakima Firing Range (artillery and bombs, oh my!) but also the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.
I've submitted corrections to Google for similar issues and they've been incorporated into the maps, so this sort of problems should decrease over time.