Used to be, when you asked Google maps for directions from here to there, the program was pretty conservative, it would route you over Interstates only, even if it took you a long way out of your way. Well the software weenies got more daring, and they let the program route you down secondary and tertiary roads, looking for the shortest route. In a way this was good, but the program would route you down impassible or non existent roads. Last year it tried to run me over NH route 116 in mud season. The program didn't know, or didn't care, that 116 has bottomless potholes from side to side in mud season. I used my superior local knowledge to drive on US 302, which is an all weather road, unlike 116.
Then yesterday it generated a routing thru Maine for me. The Maine road the software picked, was just plain non existent. Just plain no such road, nowhere, no how. I did make it, but it took a lotta backtracking.
My advice, look at the Google proposed route. If the roads lack even a state route number, or the little towns along the route lack names, beware.
My other suggestion for the Google software weenies. Fix up your map coloring. Leave the background white, that saves me ink cartridges ($52 each) and improves the contrast with the roads. Then paint the roads with a solid stripe of a single color. Drop the white road with faint gray sidewalks look. Use a consistent color code to distinguish between interstates, primary roads, secondary roads, tertiary roads, and dirt roads. Your current color scheme is close to unreadable. You ought fire what ever weenie thought it up.
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