nah, didn't really expect it...

[cellio]

It was unlikely, but it would be cool if MapQuest (or some similar service) provided a path-finding option that minimizes the expenditure of kinetic energy. For, y'know, pedestrians who want to take hills into account. The only customization option I see is "avoid highways", which I was going to do anyway. :-)

Oh well. I will just have to rely on my innate knowledge of the topography involved.

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[sekhmets-song.livejournal.com]

As long as we are making Mapquest wishes: I wish that it would say when it doesn't know where something is. I set out to a client's office, with Mapquest directions in hand, assuming that when it said "Reach destination" that I would actually be reaching the address I put into the damned thing. Oddly enough, it had me pass her office (buried ina big building with no obvious address on it) down another street to make a series of right hand turns until I "reached" my destination: a big empty field.
Thank you Mapquest. I truly hate you.

[cellio]

How irritating! I know that if you don't give a specific address (just a town) it'll take you to city hall, but I didn't realize that it would quietly guess in the face of an actual address.

city hall?

[laid.livejournal.com]

I thought it took you to the geographic center of town(which in some planned cities is something special, but more often not), just like it takes you to the center of the state if it can't find your city.

Re: city hall?

[cellio]

Hmm, you may be right. I had once read the "town hall" explanation somewhere I thought was authoritative, but some experimentation brings that into question.