On Tue, 15 Jul 2014 21:17:48 -0800, "Guv Bob"
wrote:

OT
I'm surprised that there are no "maps" usenet groups! I could just find two - alt.binaries.maps and sci.geography.cartography - both of which are dead.
So I'm posting OT because there are a few humans here..... best I can tell. LOL! Anyway....

There were humans here. That was before the barians from across the
frontier came on their motorcycles and scared most of them away, and
killed most of the rest. Me and my wife and my 18-year old daughter
been hiding in the basement of the photography studio ever since. It's a
good place to hide. None of the barians want their picture taken, and
they killed the tographer anyhow.

Google & mapquest are fine, but with my system, it takes forever for all their data files to load. Don't need street views, mileage or travel time calc, or locations of hotels, etc..

We got no net in the basement, so this is all by memory: I would think
most of those don't load until reeqwested, except for the names of
businesses like hotels. .

.. just a quick site where I can enter a street address and get a simple street map. Anyone know about one?

Most every entry for a place, in Wikip, includes the long and lat and if
you click on them it takes you here
http://tools.wmflabs.org/geohack/geo..._type:landmark

Well this is specifically the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, but it will
enable you to try 15 different map sites, and 23 satellite sites and a
lot of "other".

Thanks in advance.

Bob
/OT