Every time I use Bing Maps for the outer Melbourne region, it never makes sense to me why rivers and creeks have so much precedence on a road map, especially when all the pastel colors blend into a cobweb of lines. Perhaps Microsoft’s Bing team is extremely forward-looking, where car boats are the de facto method of transportation.
With all your recent flooding lately, and predictions of much more to come (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-23/sydney-melbourne-vulnerable-to-rising-sea-level-climate-commission-says.html), you might do well do invest in a car boat (and keep Bing Maps loaded) 😉
A Bing story with a Google search link.. oh the irony!
Long, you should probably point out that the car boat thing is a joke before somebody takes it really seriously 😉
I’ve given up on those people already.
I was taking it seriously… BOY, was disappointed. >;/
This Bing Maps is 100x more ridiculous than my 1986 UK road atlas! True, things will have changed an awful lot since then, but still, nothing can beat the GOOD OLD RELIABLE paper maps. At least they don’t rely on buggy old Flash and randomly crash when you need them most!
Hey, looks like you forgot that you posted this already. http://istartedsomething.com/20100803/bing-maps-looked-ugly-before-now-looks-like-s/