The road map UI still seems akin to the 90’s.

There’s no way to make personal maps, or any advanced tools to customize with.

The graphical ads, like you guys said are annoying.

And when you zoom in too close, you lose site of any business listings, even if Y! did show it a few zooms higher.

Live Maps is far better. It does all the good stuff that Y! Maps does (if there’s any) and has other extra features.

And Live Maps also does a lot of mapping updates, as they say on their blog a lot. Though DS doesn’t mention it much.

I only like Y!’s marked points icon. That’s it.

How about provide bicycle directions based on bicycle maps/lanes?

Please sign the petition if you’re down:
http://www.petitiononline.com/.....ition.html

More info available here:
http://googlemapsbikethere.org/

The terms of use (at least with Google) prevents that from happening because of their terms with Navteq. Navteq provides a lot of the gps directional systems on the market today. If Google permitted that, it would be easy to build a free product that undercuts Navteq’s business.

From http://www.google.com/intl/en_....._maps.html:
“Except where you have been specifically licensed to do so by Google, you may not use Google Maps with any products, systems, or applications installed or otherwise connected to or in communication with vehicles, capable of vehicle navigation, positioning, dispatch, real time route guidance, fleet management or similar applications.”

What sucks is that the limitation in doing that has nothing to do with sufficient technology, it’s strictly a data licensing issue.

Click on any of the menu options on the bottom of the page to add/remove this feature from the map.