Earlier this week, Poest pointed out me to the new Ask.com maps site. I'm not sure if this is new since dumping Jeeves or not, but i hadn't heard anything about it before. The nice part is that they actually have good satellite images for where i live. Compare Ask's aerial images of Walker, MI to Google's aerial photos of Walker, MI. There's a big difference. If you like the picture enough to buy your own, they even provide a link to buy a print. It still bugs me that they don't recognize my zip code: 49534. I'm not making this up, it's my real zip code. When will it show up in the data base already. The omission is on both Ask and Google Local so it's a tie in that department. Interestingly, Ask will give you walking directions as well as driving directions. Ask does loose points for automatically sending Safari (2.0.3) to the Maps Lite version of the site. I've gotta launch Firefox on my Mac to see it. Hopefully they are working on doing something about that.
Posted by Matthew at March 23, 2006 07:22 PMHow does one "loose points?"
