"John Rowland" wrote in message
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http://maps.google.co.uk/

(This is probably for broadband users only)

Zoom right in and then click on the arrows to scroll at high speed, or
just
drag the image with the mouse ... How cool is that!

At the highest level, the detail of service roads is astonishing. Just
north
of Harrow On The Hill station it seems to show the roads inside the
multi-storey car parks.

Very impressive for its speed of redrawing the screen as you scroll around.

It would be useful if clicking on part of a small-scale map centred the map
about that point and zoomed in to save alternating between zooming and
panning to show the map that you want.

It's a shame that outside central London the maps don't show things like
railway stations and car parks.

Its route-planning is a bit strange: the normal route between my house and
my parents, mostly along A roads, is about 25 miles; Google suggests a very
long detour onto green primary A roads (A34, A41), totally ignoring red A
roads and brown B roads, which makes a total of 44 miles and adds about 20
mins onto the journey time.