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With the many options of online route planners for the paupers like me with no sat nav, which one do people rate?

I really like the ease of use of Google Maps, especially the way you can moe around the map and can add 'via' points with a click of the mouse, but wish it had Speed Camera/Petrol Station locations, etc.

I know the AA site shows this, but it's rubbish when trying to move around maps.

Multimap used to be king, but that's gone downhill since it was revamped earlier in the year.

Does anyone know of a better online route planner?

Got a good few hundred miles planned this weekend, a lot of which is on roads I don't know. Would hate to get caught with my pants down adhering to the wrong speed limit.

Getting caught with your pants down adhering to the wrong speed limit....£60 (or up to £2500)
Sat Nav system with camera locations from about £140.
Both can be paid for with Mastercard!

I tend to use the RAC planner in advance to check on traffic conditions, then a decent map in the car. SatNav is purely a backup.

Paul

I just tend to use google maps. It is nicely intuitive and with the "hybrid" mode showing images of the landscape you can spot land marks

Always liked the RAC site, but not used that since google maps came out.

I use multimap.com just out of habit.

I RAC most unknown trips, was a good for the nurburgring trip

http://local.live.com

I digg there birds-eye view!

confusionhunter wrote:I use multimap.com just out of habit.

I always used to use this. I actually noticed this morning when plotting a route from Liverpool to Awesome GTI in Irlam that Multimap is actually out of date. There's a new road down there which appears on Google Maps, but not on Multimap.

I went to the Aerial/Hybrid mode and found that the photos on Multimap are much older than those on Google. The flat where I live doesn't exist on Multimap's aerial views, and they were built about 7 years ago!

Infact, just noticed that Multimap uses the same aerial photos as http://local.live.com/, except to a much lower resolution. Also, http://local.live.com/ shows the new road on the map, even though it's not there on the photo (A57 bypass in Cadishead).