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Google Maps adds Safari, Opera support

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Posted 01 March 2005 - 04:53 AM

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I do not have an answer to why this is, but it seems that all the pimpleheads on this page are not interested in sharing information with us today.
Pimpleheads? Who are you talking about?
I know originally Safari wasn't supported because it didn't have XSLT support. I suppose either they managed to find some rudimentary support for it in the Panther version of Safari (Dave Hyatt mentioned adding some support to their developmental version sometime in August of last year) or they used a technology present in newer Safari's that could be used as a makeshift solution until Tiger and/or Safari 1.3 are released. It might also have to do with XmlHttpRequest support.

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Posted 01 March 2005 - 08:43 AM

Very nice as maps goes! Hopefully, they will one day add some of the rest of the world. For the moment it's not much use for me when I need to find my way to somewhere in Fulham. For Fulham and the rest of the world http://www.multimap.com is a much better choice than the limited Google or Yahoo maps, although it lacks the Google eye candy (but looks better than crappy Yahoo).
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Posted 01 March 2005 - 09:21 AM

I tried the new Google Map. It's much better looking than MapQuest. Unfortunately it seems to be just as inaccurate. I tried going from my home address to 150 miles away. Not only did it take an unusual route to get there, it actually took me thru a national forest with no roads and across a creek without a bridge!
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Posted 01 March 2005 - 10:24 AM

iSkippy - I've had that problem with other map servics, actually. I was trying to get instructions from my work to the local emissions test center. It was about 10 minutes away. Yahoo (I think?) wanted me to go through Seattle.
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Posted 01 March 2005 - 11:45 AM

I had the opposite problem. Mapquest claimed I could get from Duck, NC (Outer Banks) to Chattanooga, TN in about 6 hours. When I asked it for directions from Chatanooga to Duck (same addresses) it suddenly found a four-hour chunk of highway I needed to get around the mountains! Apparently I just use my Star Trek transporter on the way back to go THROUGH the mountain /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
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Posted 01 March 2005 - 11:49 AM

Pimpleheads?
People like you and me whose heads and eyes are the shape of the monitors we stare at 24/7 not receiving enough healthy ultraviolet sunlight and without 4 good nutritional meals a day.
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