If you are planning a route, try this site www.maporama.com - it is good and in my opinion much more detailed than the AA or the RAC - give it a go!!
Richard Price
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www.multimap.com offers pretty much the same service
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Multimap's routing is so bizarre as to be totally and absolutely useless (IMHO, of course). But the maps are pretty!
The only online planner I know that actually works is MapPoint:
mappoint.msn.com/UK
David
X-Type 3-litre Sport
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This is a true story (not one that happened to a mate of a mate and became mine). I once used mapblast.com and got a route from my postcode to a customer's postcode.
Followed it, and followed a road that I thought must be heading to their industrial estate. I stopped when the road turned into a boatyard on the Thames (magic!).
Phoned the customer and found that I was just 200 yards from them, only on the wrong side of the Thames. The trip up to Marlow (the next crossing) and back cost me around half an hour.
The moral? Even if you use one of these route finders, check on a map as well.
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IMVHO---the AA route planner is best .The website can be an awkward s** though
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Sorry Tony but the AA route planner is just as useless as all the others that won't recognise a full postcode. As I said before, Mappoint is the only online planner I know that actually works.
David
X-Type 3-litre Sport
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Shell's Geostar is the one I prefer. It breaks down the journey into steps and you can view them either as maps or directions. Perfect for co-pilots!
You can also set stopovers and it works for the continent.
www.shellgeostar.co.uk
Regards
Jonathan
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I tried Multimap to get me to a village on Exmoor. It sent me the wrong way, which was a real bummer with a caravan. We had to negotiate a couple of hairpin bends on a 1 in 5. Delightful.
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I,ve used both multimap and the AA, the AA i find good for main roads and multimap ok for nearer the destination, I've just used mappoint and the directions look as good as the AA, so i'll see whant my co-pilot has to say
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... multimap ok for nearer the destination,>>
Jud, how near is "nearer"? I assume you mean once you've got to the outskirts of the town?
Before going on a simple 75 mile journey, almost all on the A1, I asked for a route just out of interest. Multimap wanted to take me on a 121 mile scenic tour!
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Plus a little modicum of common sense needs to be applied when using these things.
Few years ago we were going on holiday to Isle of Wight outward journey on day of British GP. Where we lived at the time normal route would have taken us right past Silverstone, no thank you methinks.
So as a second check I got SWMBO, as an AA member, to ask them for a route, pointing out the date of travel and that it might be wise to avoid Silverstone hoping the AA would have some insider info on likely congestion, routes into the circuit which would be clogged and so on.
What they sent back basically took us to within ~2 miles of the circuit then diverted round some back roads and back onto the main road. Doh! Needless to say did something completely different worked very well indeed. The smug expression lasted till Newbury
:-( (pre bypass)
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Tell me about it, if multimap says left, then they really mean right.
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