From: Neil E. Amrhein (neil@compu-powr.com)
Date: Tue Aug 27 2002 - 08:52:45 PDT
List,
Just as an alternate mapping suggestion, I have always had good luck
with www.mapsonus.com. I think they like people to subscribe, but I never
have and have not had any problems. You can plan a route or get a map. Route
planning can be modified by specifying the type of route (shortest distance,
fastest, favor major highways, avoid major highways). I believe these are on
an "advanced" page. They give you detailed turn by turn instructions and you
can get small maps of every turn. I find it pretty useful.
As for MV content: I saw 2, 5-ton FMTV's yesterday, each with about 10
fully decked out & armed troops in the back. I'm sure they were coming from
an exercise or something. I wonder when the first of those will hit the
surplus market?
--Neil
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Grammont" <islander@midmaine.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 11:31 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] Mapquest directions to HMV events
>
>
> >(required HMV content) Be aware of this 'feature' when going to Toby* or
> >any other HMV event
>
> To add more warning to Steve's note...
>
> Last week I used MapQuest to find directions from my house to a friend's
> within my state. The major roads are far and few inbetween around here.
> The path that MapQuest gave was a dud. It would have taken me at least
> 45 minutes extra on a 2:40 minute trip, not to mention being much longer
> in miles (i.e. fuel consumption).
>
> >From what I can figure MapQuest "weighs" road classification too highly
> vs. most direct/quickest route. In reality the two roads in question are
> about the same in terms of speed and quality, even if one is classified
> better than the other. So MapQuest apparantly thought the secondary
> route (or in this case much more than secondary!) was inferior to its
> choice, when in fact they are both about the same. Well, except the one
> that I took saved me 45 minutes!
>
> MV content... on the way back I checked out an Army depot full of nice
> Deuces, HMMWVs, some trailers of various sorts, 155s, and a Unimog 404
> with snowblower (Air National Guard base as well). Funny to see the
> little Mog there!
>
> Steve
>
>
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