Friday, January 27, 2012

Are there maps online that will give approximate driving times between locations?

I'm going to be driving from North Carolina to Texas. I generally use Google, Yahoo or Mapquest when planning trips, but I was wondering if there are any online maps that will show the approx. driving time between certain points, rather than printing out a bunch of different sets of directions. Maybe something similar to the diriving time map for the US in the front of an atlas.Are there maps online that will give approximate driving times between locations?
if you already know these certain points, when using yahoo maps, you can enter way-points. Enter start city on line "A" and way point city on line " B" after it calculates the route you will see a line " C' at the bottom of your instructions list enter another city then hit go...you will then see a line " D" you can keep going and going....
Hmm? Google, Yahoo, and Mapquest all give you approximate driving time between the two points you type in. If you want to know the time between any two specific points, all you have to do is make one of them your current location, and the other one your destination. Are there maps online that will give approximate driving times between locations?
If you don't want to use Google or Mapquest, which can give you a more accurate distance and time based on the actual route you take, here's a site that shows you the distance between major U.S. cities:



http://www.etn.nl/drivdist.htm



Then, simply divide by the average speed you think you'll drive. For example, if the distance is 500 miles and you think you'll drive 50 MPH average (allowing for meal and gas stops), then 500 divided by 50 would be 10 hours.Are there maps online that will give approximate driving times between locations?
there are programs that can do that, but you need to consider downtime as well (Road closures due to accidents, construction, President comming to town, etc) Generally from the time it gives you, add 15% to that time.



Take the hours, and figure into minutes, times it by 1.15 then figure back into hours. Also consider the more stops you do also adds to time as time is collected form the slow down of stopping and starting.



I have noticed this many times as I was a truck driver for a while.
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