Google Map Phone vs. Mac

My experience is that often (but not always) the iphone Maps demands more detail to get "Directions" than the Google Maps on a Mac or PC interface. For example, on Mac the Maps will find the directions using "Blythe, CA" for the start and "Cracker Barrel TEmpe AZ" for the destination. On the iphone Maps this returns "Driving directions could not be found between these locations." For this reason also a Google Map Driving Directions link in an e-mail will not open automatically in iphone Maps.
I would have thought that Google being the Map host and the phone requiring at least as much flexibility as setting at a desktop.
Is there something I can do to be smarter with my searches, or just live with it?
Thanks much

Thanks for the helpful feedback. I've extended a text box to leave a little room below the map.
My Firefox still fails to display the map. I've just reinstalled it from a freshly downloaded DMG file of 2.0.0.6. And I've trashed the only prefs file I could find. (There must be other config files somewhere else, because after I trashed the prefs Firefox still remembered my home page etc.).
I have no idea what's wrong with my Firefox, but it's good to know that it works for other people.

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