Online Maps Updated After Disaster

By RACHEL KONRAD, AP Technology Writer, Technology / Internet

In this screen grab provided by Yahoo Maps, the new route from Albany, Calif., to San Jose, Calif., is seen on Wednesday, May 2, 2007. If you asked Google, Yahoo, AOL or other Internet sites to plot a route between San Francisco and Oakland in the hours after an oil tanker exploded last weekend, they suggested that you drive directly over a collapsed overpass engulfed in flames. But within 48 hours, the companies' engineers had reprogrammed the software to advise alternate routes. (AP Photo/Yahoo Maps)

(AP) -- If you went to Google, Yahoo, AOL or another mapping site to plot a route from San Francisco to Oakland in the hours after an oil tanker exploded, they would have sent you driving over a collapsed overpass engulfed in flames.

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