it's a bewildering whirl of colors and shapes that has gotten worse every six months for 15 years
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and in doing so it has made humans worse and worse and worse at doing things that computers were created to replace and improve
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in 1998 if you were planning a trip you might have gotten out a paper road map and put marks on it for interesting locations along the way
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with online maps you CAN do that, but the entire process is built assuming you already know everywhere you're going
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It APPEARS to be what you want - you can keep putting in locations and it'll keep plotting them - but in truth it's not at all
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The process you WANT: pick your start and end. now start searching for places in between. Your start and end are saved.
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When you find someplace interesting, add it to your list. Keep doing that, keep searching and adding.
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Search far and wide. Search for cities and then click around inside them. Read reviews. Do street view.
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When you're all done, you go back to your plotted trip and start laying out the chosen locations and optimizing your path.
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You can do this with a paper map. You can't do this with gmaps. So you just don't do it.
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You sort of can with https://wego.here.com/ though.
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