[KLUG Advocacy] Freaky / Interesting experience with yahoo maps

[Chester Wisniewski]

greenproc wrote:

>When looking up directions to a location within downtown kalamazoo, I
>specified the street and zip of the location along with just the zip for
> my "from" location at <maps.yahoo.com>.
>
>The oddity is that the map and route resulting from my query was uncanny
>in it's pointing out where my "start address" was from -- almost the
>*exact* location, even though the only information provided was the zip
>-- I just wanted a map of the general area of the location but it was
>convenient to use the "directions" function of their site.
>
>Can anyone else try the same thing, and discover if the route provided
>is suspiciously close to your actual location?
>
>Is this a fluke or a flaw?
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Was it a zip+4?