This is an actual road trip I just took recently:
Our convent/bookcenter in Chicago to our convent/bookcenter in Toronto and back.
Chicago to Iowa to Indiana back to Chicago.
I used Mapquest because I greatly prefer Mapquest on my laptop, but only use Google maps on my phone.
One thing that was super annoying was that a church at "E," my Indiana location (that was NOT the church I was at) had paid for an ad to give it some kind of priority. So this ad for another church kept popping up whenever the cursor was near my church--obliterating it! Ha ha.
The Red Stone Inn I stayed at in Iowa was a very cool restored Victorian B&B--purported to be haunted--and I wanted to add some photos I took (I was in the bridal suite) and give it a good review. I was allowed to do that through a Yelp!-powered pop-up on Mapquest. However, when I tried to zoom in (aerial) right over the inn, it wouldn't allow that--mostly likely because Google Earth is Mapquest's competition, but perhaps also because of privacy/terrorism/criminal concerns(?) See the "crossed out camera icon wallpaper" below:
You can see my review as "Helena B." (5 stars) Our convent/bookcenter in Chicago to our convent/bookcenter in Toronto and back.
Chicago to Iowa to Indiana back to Chicago.
I used Mapquest because I greatly prefer Mapquest on my laptop, but only use Google maps on my phone.
One thing that was super annoying was that a church at "E," my Indiana location (that was NOT the church I was at) had paid for an ad to give it some kind of priority. So this ad for another church kept popping up whenever the cursor was near my church--obliterating it! Ha ha.
The Red Stone Inn I stayed at in Iowa was a very cool restored Victorian B&B--purported to be haunted--and I wanted to add some photos I took (I was in the bridal suite) and give it a good review. I was allowed to do that through a Yelp!-powered pop-up on Mapquest. However, when I tried to zoom in (aerial) right over the inn, it wouldn't allow that--mostly likely because Google Earth is Mapquest's competition, but perhaps also because of privacy/terrorism/criminal concerns(?) See the "crossed out camera icon wallpaper" below:
When I went to upload photos I had taken of the Inn, I realized they were on my phone. I usually just post photos direct to social media from my phone (Twitter, FB, Viber, etc.) and don't store them anywhere, but I realized I needed some kind of syncing to get my photos to Picasa Web photos or some other service so whenever I need to, I can easily download phone pictures wherever I want online. I usually just email myself phone photos that I need, but it takes a while.... So this exercise forced me to sync my phone with Google Auto Backup / Picasa!
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