{"id":3130,"date":"2005-02-08T12:35:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-08T20:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/02\/08\/the-al-can-highway-is-no-more\/"},"modified":"2019-12-13T09:00:33","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T17:00:33","slug":"the-al-can-highway-is-no-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/02\/08\/the-al-can-highway-is-no-more\/","title":{"rendered":"The Al-Can Highway is no more!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:8470,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/maps.google.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20151001135727\\\/http:\\\/\\\/maps.google.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/maps.google.com\\\/maps&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-25 08:35:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-25 08:35:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:9003,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/maps.google.com\\\/maps?q=from%20802%20seneca%20st%2C%20seattle%2C%20wa%20to%204202%20resurrection%20dr%2C%20anchorage%2C%20ak&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.google.com:443\\\/maps?q=from+802+seneca+st,+seattle,+wa+to+4202+resurrection+dr,+anchorage,+ak&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:9004,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.mapquest.com\\\/directions\\\/main.adp?go=1&amp;do=nw&amp;un=m&amp;cl=EN&amp;ct=NA&amp;rsres=1&amp;1y=US&amp;1a=802+Seneca+St.&amp;1c=Seattle&amp;1s=WA&amp;1z=98101&amp;2y=US&amp;2a=4202+Resurrection+Dr.&amp;2c=Anchorage&amp;2s=AK&amp;2z=99504&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20080624225849\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.mapquest.com:80\\\/directions\\\/main.adp?go=1&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 16:12:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 16:12:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:9005,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/maps.yahoo.com\\\/dd_result?ed=HbmPmOV.wil64.gEXqarHBgTkdBKhMqWGP4YjW0MmCJAYhG0fCZB27gAafuJmRcSY9JenQJ_&amp;csz=Seattle%2C+WA+98101&amp;country=us&amp;tcsz=Anchorage%2C+AK+99504&amp;tcountry=us&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/maps.yahoo.com\\\/dd_result?ed=HbmPmOV.wil64.gEXqarHBgTkdBKhMqWGP4YjW0MmCJAYhG0fCZB27gAafuJmRcSY9JenQJ_&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:9006,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/joelblain.com\\\/index.php\\\/archives\\\/2005\\\/02\\\/08\\\/prepare&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/joelblain.com\\\/index.php\\\/archives\\\/2005\\\/02\\\/08\\\/prepare&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>At least, according to Google&#8217;s nifty new <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/\" title=\"Google Maps\">Google Maps<\/a> page, <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=from%20802%20seneca%20st%2C%20seattle%2C%20wa%20to%204202%20resurrection%20dr%2C%20anchorage%2C%20ak\" title=\"Google Maps: Driving directions from my apartment to my parents' house.\">that&#8217;s the story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2005\/02\/graphics\/noalcan.jpg\" height=\"142\" width=\"286\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" alt=\"No Alcan on Google\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Realistically, I&#8217;m quite sure that this is simply because Google Maps doesn&#8217;t have the Canadian highway system in their database at the moment. Hopefully that&#8217;s only a temporary thing, as that is a search that returns good results in both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mapquest.com\/directions\/main.adp?go=1&#38;do=nw&#38;un=m&#38;cl=EN&#38;ct=NA&#38;rsres=1&#38;1y=US&#38;1a=802+Seneca+St.&#38;1c=Seattle&#38;1s=WA&#38;1z=98101&#38;2y=US&#38;2a=4202+Resurrection+Dr.&#38;2c=Anchorage&#38;2s=AK&#38;2z=99504\" title=\"Mapquest: Driving directions from my apartment to my parent's house.\">Mapquest<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.yahoo.com\/dd_result?ed=HbmPmOV.wil64.gEXqarHBgTkdBKhMqWGP4YjW0MmCJAYhG0fCZB27gAafuJmRcSY9JenQJ_&#38;csz=Seattle%2C+WA+98101&#38;country=us&#38;tcsz=Anchorage%2C+AK+99504&#38;tcountry=us\" title=\"Yahoo! Maps: Driving directions from my apartment to my parent's house.\">Yahoo! Maps<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it amused me.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from that and the fact that Google Maps doesn&#8217;t work in Safari yet (they do say that they&#8217;re working on it), I&#8217;ve got to say that I&#8217;m <em>very<\/em> impressed. The maps are prettier than the other systems output, you can drag maps around within the interface (I followed the Glenn Highway out of Anchorage all the way out past Palmer just by dragging along), and from <a href=\"http:\/\/joelblain.com\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/02\/08\/prepare\/\" title=\"Joel Blain: Prepare...\">what Joel says<\/a>, they&#8217;re more detailed in some respects than the other systems.<\/p>\n<p>Worth playing with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least, according to Google&#8217;s nifty new Google Maps page, that&#8217;s the story. Realistically, I&#8217;m quite sure that this is simply because Google Maps doesn&#8217;t have the Canadian highway system in their database at the moment. Hopefully that&#8217;s only a temporary thing, as that is a search that returns good results in both Mapquest and Yahoo! Maps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043,2038],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-3130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-tech","tag-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}