Vinny Glennon has a genuinely useful site in UseAMap. Starting from the simple idea of doing a “TinyURL for Maps”, Vinny has built one of my favourite mapping apps.

The most recent addition is a huge boon to those of us who live in The Google Maps Darklands - UseAMap is now integrated with Yahoo Maps too.

Both Yahoo and Microsoft do a far superior job of mapping West Cork than Google. This is very surprising giving how many billion dollars Google funnels through Ireland every year. I doubt they’d miss a few euro going to the Ordnance Survey.

Here is an example of a location I have set in UseAMap.

Check it out.