Your source for accurate and current marker positions with profiles
WineQuesters.com and our iPhone app Winery Quest are the only option for accurate map marker locations.
We drive to each tasting room and GPS map them, saving you time and frustration. As a bonus for us, we now know over 800 California tasting rooms and who knows how much wine.
Our maps are updated in real time by ourselves and wineries. All other maps are outdated. We make changes almost daily.
Printed maps in magazines and handouts are abstract and their outdated information can send you chasing after wineries that no longer exist.
So what's the problem with geo-coded addresses for positioning map markers?
- Geo-coding addresses is a computer process for assigning latitude and longitude to mailing addresses.
- In towns the addresses are close enough to accuracy because of short block numbering conventions.
- In rural areas the locations can be off by a mile or more because addresses are not in city blocks.
- Even worse, mailing addresses are often not the tasting room address and the maps show legal names which may not be the winery name. Map data is often well over a year old.
Which maps use geo-coding?
- GPS navigation devices used in cars and handheld - all of them.
- All iPhone apps with winery maps except our app, Winery Quest.
- All online maps that we know of except our maps.