[ajm144k]

i went to the outer banks this past august, and figured i would see how well livesearch and google maps mapped out my trip. i was coming from ohio, traveling to the outer banks, so it was a good all-day, long distance trip. and, keep in mind- this is from august so the mapping features may have been a bit different as they are now (although i really doubt it).


with livesearch, it gave me the logical route (it was not the "shortest" route, but it was the fastest- as it used bigger highways, and therefore less total roads to travel on). it was basically the exact route that we took.

googlemaps mapped out the shortest route, following along the lines of "the shortest route from point a to point b is a straight line. the problem with googlemap's approach was that it wanted me to take a number of those 2-lane, country roads, which just isnt logical for long distance traveling.