King of Bing Maps Crowned by Microsoft

Cross-country trip planning is still a no-go with Bing. For example, try to plan a trip from Bangor, Maine to San Diego, California. Simple enough.

Now that you have a route, you can plan your stops, right? Wrong. If you choose "Add to route" in St Louis, for example, it takes you from Bangor to San Diego to Saint Louis. Not what I would want.

The only other option would be to "Change End" to St Louis and the Add San Diego again. But, then what happens when another stop is added, say somewhere between Bangor and St. Louis? The user has to add St. Louis and San Diego all over again.

That is NOT user friendly for long trip planning at all. Sometime at the end of Sept. I have to help plan just such a trip. I'll have to use a competitor's mapping page, because they DO supply just such an option, to insert a stopping point on a road trip.

Bing Maps has features that allow you to easily control the order of directions waypoints -- give it another try.

In the Silverlight version of the site, after you click "Add to route" and type a new waypoint name (such as "St. Louis"), just grab the right edge of the text entry box with your mouse and drag the new waypoint up to where you want it in your itinerary (e.g., between "Bangor" and "San Diego").

In the "Classic" version of the site, there's an "Add to route" link right below each waypoint in the directions list, that adds a new waypoint at that position. So to add St. Louis after Bangor, click "Add to route" right below Bangor in the list, and type "St. Louis" there. There are also up

You can move destinations in the route by clicking the little arrows next to the destination's name that say "move up" and "move down". Also, if you select the "add to route" link next to a leg of the trip it adds the destination to that leg.

I personally prefer the approach taken by the Silverlight version of the site, which allows you to batch-edit the route via draggable tabs on the right of each destination:
http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/#/z0gowhchtnyzzx1v

Actually in Bing, you can move each stop up and down to reorder them. Say you've got a route from A to B, you can then click "Add to Route" to add location C. Afterwards, for each location in the planned route, there's an up/down arrow to move it, and the planned route will change accordingly. I agree that the UI could be made more obvious though...

All you have to do is click on that little arrow next to the 'A', 'B' or 'C' (with your destingation name, the grey box) to reorder where you want your stops. You can move them up or down pretty easy, not obvious as it should be however.

To Sothryn:

Do these steps -

Look for directiong from Bangor to San Diego.

Then look for a spot in St. Louis.

Right Click and add place.

Yes it adds it to the end, but on the toolbar on the left where is shows direction to each place, you can grab each location and drag and drop to change the order.

It is that simple.

I try the taxi calculator for fares in NYC and it just keeps telling me it does not recognize addess, yet when I place the address in maps.bing alone it works fine. Great winner you chose, get a product that works first before handing out such awards....

Are you entering in a full address? You only need to enter in the street address. It adds in the rest to the end. Also, look at the text boxes after you press the calculate button. If the values are the same then it won't work.