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Plan a trip and a detour with Google Maps
If you thought the ability to avoid highways was crucial for an online mapping service, you're going to love this. Google's just added a new feature to Google Maps that lets you change your directions by clicking and dragging.
Here's how it works. Enter your starting point and destination. When the blue line pops up showing how to get from one place to another, just click the blue line and drag it to another road. The directions will automatically update. Seeing is believing, so have a look at this little video the Google Maps team put together to demonstrate:
This feature could come in handy if you need to make a detour, want to take the scenic route, or just know that there's always traffic on the preferred route.
[via Google Operating System]
Here's how it works. Enter your starting point and destination. When the blue line pops up showing how to get from one place to another, just click the blue line and drag it to another road. The directions will automatically update. Seeing is believing, so have a look at this little video the Google Maps team put together to demonstrate:
This feature could come in handy if you need to make a detour, want to take the scenic route, or just know that there's always traffic on the preferred route.
[via Google Operating System]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Mike Hamilton said 12:49PM on 6-29-2007
one less reason for offline mapping apps. I always kept Microsoft Street and Trips on my computer for this reason. I seem to always like to change the directions to make them a little easier, or round cities a little different way. If you can now do this online I guess I won't need the offline app anymore...
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