Google Maps Best Design

I had a little extra time tonight and I was mapping a short trip tomorrow, so I figured I'd re-visit the main map sites to see if anything has changed in the time since my last "review."

Google is still the best because of one absolutely wonderful feature. As far as I can tell, none of the other maps have this feature; if they do, it's buried. Google surfaces it right on the map layout.

From my house, there are two routes to Salinas. One of them is obvious and is the default chosen by most of the map programs. The other is my preference. On Google, once it draws my map, I can click and drag the route over to the road I prefer to use and Google recalculates the route and redraws the map.

That, my friends, is way cool!

(For the record, the other maps I checked were Yahoo, Mapquest and Rand-McNally.)