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Website designers can never let well enough alone. Now, the very useful former version of Multimap has been scrapped in favour of a less detailed one. I don't like AA or Viamichelin either. What else is there?
Edited by Dynamic Dave on 20/05/2008 at 22:28
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Streetmap?
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Viamichelin
That was a very good website last year, not so special now.
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maps.live.com/ from Microsoft (Navteq maps for UK)
maps.yahoo.com (also Navteq maps)
I love how in Google how you can drag the route to take in a detour and it recalculates distances and times automatically.
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It looks OK to me - the map is quite like Google's and there's the choice of OS as an alternative, as well as aerial and bird's eye.
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I second Google maps, although as Avant says, you can bring up an OS Landranger map with Multimap, if you know how to do it.
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I am a big fan of Google Maps and use this most of the time. If you search the major cities in the US the 'Streetview' is very cool! Anyway I digress, sometimes I use www.mappy.co.uk which shows a pictorial version of the junction signs in the directions guidance which can be helpful. DB
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Microsoft Live Map is very good. Here you can see your house in 3D from different directions directly on web browser!
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I was thinking exactly the same as the OP the other day and have started using google instead. It's a shame they have messed around with it, even when they revised multimap some eejit forgot to set the distances in miles.
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I was thinking exactly the same as the OP the other day and have started using google instead.
Same here it was bad news that they had scrapped the old version of Multimap, it was very useful at work because with the proper O.S. mapping we could read contour lines and get spot heights for sites that are outside our limited collection of Landranger maps.
I've now found that Streetmap uses O.S. mapping so using that for work. And now use Google maps for general stuff.
Edited by Rich 9-3 on 21/05/2008 at 10:56
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Website designers can never let well enough alone. Now, the very useful former version of Multimap has been scrapped in favour of a less detailed one.
Same here it was bad news that they had scrapped the old version of Multimap, it was very useful at work because with the proper O.S. mapping we could read contour lines
I don't see what the problem is. I can use Multimap on my PC to choose between OS or Bartholomew or TeleAtlas maps or use the Microsoft Virtual Earth Engine from the same page to view 2D aerial or where data is available, switch to 3D brid's eye aerial views.
Usually I try all three of these: Microsoft's maps.live.com, plus Google maps, plus Multimap.
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I don't see what the problem is. I can use Multimap on my PC to choose between OS or Bartholomew or TeleAtlas maps
Aha, right you are jbif, I had not noticed the arrow button next to 'maps' to switch between formats. Doh!
I was used to clicking on "go to our old site", so with that option now gone, I did not look further for an O.S. mapping option..
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Thanks for all tips. I now find Streetmap suits me best.
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I have read all of your reviews and have spent severl hours looking at these sites and based on :
Brand
Accuracy
coverage
product
easy of use
customisation
ability to email
Geocoding
reviews
I would def use viamichelin.co.uk
they have congestion charging info, toll charges, petrol costs and can geocode Ireland which google and multimap cannot. Street map show too much advertising and have very poor coverage , even in the uk . I like products and websites that look good, save me time and deliver results everytime.
I do sometimes use google for convenience though the reviews are very poor ! Its hard to suit evertone though even for ViaMichelin business compared to Multimap they win again, Microsoft have got far too big and when i saw that funny road names were coming up again ( Multimap servers had been hacked again ) they never got back and the results are still bad.
Just search online for Multimap hacked and found this from WEB USER motoring website !
tinyurl.com/l2962b {Link shortened using tinyurl to restore page width to correct proportions - you ought to try tinyurl sometime. Really easy to use!}
Edited by Dynamic Dave on 24/08/2009 at 19:43
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it seems that a lot of sites have updated and think that they are doing a better job when they are taking a step backwards. The one that I sometimes use is
mappy.com
First started using when going to France (mappy.fr) where it gave costs of peage etc which i found very useful.
Edited by rogue-trooper on 24/08/2009 at 16:24
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The maps that Google and ViaMichelin use for my area are years out of date compared to Multimap.
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ViaMichelin and google are far more up to date than Multimap and now bing. The bing maps which got hacked last year and still showing wrong place names (reported by the BBC)
I have experience of all of these and mappy and still would never use bing / microsoft / multimap as for business they are more expensive than most
typical business prices
Google api enterprise £8800
Multimap api £5500
ViaMichelin £4500
From expeience and feedback online, viamichelin win everytime !
Edited by Dynamic Dave on 03/02/2010 at 12:36
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Google Maps every time for me. Always seems to be the best route and it's really handy having the traffic display. Bonus points because I can get the traffic feature on my phone.
Anyone know how they manage to make the mapping instant?
Edited by Dynamic Dave on 03/02/2010 at 12:36
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Mbay - are you connected to viamichelin by any chance ? Please contact the mods to clarify.
Rob - Moderator.
Edited by Dynamic Dave on 03/02/2010 at 12:36
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I think Google map alone can void the need for using any other map site.
{several edits to posts above to amend the subject title back to the default one}
Edited by Dynamic Dave on 03/02/2010 at 12:37
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Mbay - are you connected to viamichelin by any chance ? Please contact the mods to clarify. >> Rob - Moderator. >>
Yes, strange that he/she should have revived this old thread twice in two years.
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Googlemaps for me too.
I take the streetview man for a little walk and we have a look to see if it's possible to reverse artics into gateways to firms:)
Pat
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Now thats a clever idea, using the streetview man like that.
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On occasion I have forgotten to take a photo of a building I have valued. Streetmap has enabled me to do a screen capture and paste photo into a report. Sometimes the photo is better than I could do as camera is higher up and in the middle of the road.
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I am a keen Free lance developer and have developed Google, Multimap and ViaMichelin business mapping solutions for clients over the past 2 years. Feedback has been largley positive for all with the most complaints against Google followed by Multimap, mainly for accuracy and reliablilty.
I now do use viamichelin though are yet to try their web service.
Live traffic info will develop alot this year and using Mashable there is alot of talk on who's best !
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For route planning I tend to use the planner on the TomTom website
routes.tomtom.com
which seems pretty good and claims to use their live services (HD Traffic and IQ Routes) although, as I have mentioned before, its estimate of journey times into London during busy periods are incredibly optimistic.
However, for browsing maps, I find Google Maps hard to beat and will always find at least one good reason a week to use Street View (not sure what I did without it).
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Google is the easiest. Type a postcode into the google bar, and there you are, just add directions and have a look on street view for all sorts of uses. Great for checking the parking restrictions if you're going to pick somebody up by a tube station, you can find a road with double yellow lines rather than a red route. You can even read the parking restrictions.
Multimap is essential for OS maps - they even have 1:25,000 on there. Couldn't be without it.
And 192.com has (in London anway - actually had, haven't used it for a bit, presume it still has) amazing aerial photos too, great for house hunting you can see what state the roof is in.
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Google maps send feature is handy.
Plan a route on your PC (much easier than a tiny touchscreen) change it to suit. Click send --> If you're a BMW, Merc or Audi driver, plop in your BMW Assist number.
Go out to car, switch on ignition and new message recieved!
Cool!
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