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Navigation in small towns

Zailor shared this question 13 years ago
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Waiting for the summer and use Locus as a Seaplotter on my boat I have played around with the navigation features and compare it with Google? Navigation.


The test area is in a very little town (my town) with small roads.


Ok, to the point ; Locus (Mapquest) don`t find the right way between the "yellow house " and the "black car" but Google? do.


Offcourse I understand that this is not Locus fault but it would be Interesting to know about What`s happened I try to attach 2 screen shots


Cheers


/zailor

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Hi,


This is pretty simple to explain. Google "knows" the all the little streets between yellow house and parked car. MapQuest only knows the main street.


This is a pretty good example of bad mapped rural areas. While Google can calculate a route on all the little streets from adress to adress, Mapquest starts and ends calculating at the "closest known points".


For better understanding, you can calculate a route using Google between some random points somewhere in the fields (without a road next to the point). Now you see, that Google does the same as Mapquest.


Cheers, berkley

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