..This is an awesome feature enhancement! The only way to see how cool (and useful) this can be, is to try it out on Google Maps for yourself! Enter two points in the "get directions" field and grab on the route with your mouse to see it work!
Another change to Google Maps you'll notice that is shown in the Maps Team YouTube clip is a right-click feature that presents a menu to start/end directions, zoom or center the map. It's pretty handy. For more tips on "customizing every step of your next trip", check out this great help page that includes the above YouTube clip, and more example links:
http://maps.google.com/help/maps/directions/
You can also check out the official Google-LatLong Blog post about this new feature enhancement:
It's a click & drag situation
Frank Taylor at the Google Earth Blog can also help you "Take your directions from Google Maps to Google Earth"
Other changes you'll see on Google Maps..
"Link to this page" is now easier! - Click the link at the top right and a drop-down box appears with the full link already pre-selected for you to "Paste link in email or IM" [Thanks Virender!]
New links (bottom left) added: Advertising on Google Maps, Adding your business, using Google Maps for mobile or Adding Google Maps to your website.
For more recent Google Maps News, click the "Google Maps" label below...
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Awesome
Him: "Why don't we reroute to go past my place?"
Her: "No way geek".
What's missing? Music!
What's missing in the youtube video? Music!
Finally, they read my mind! I've been waiting for this feature.
Now if maps.google.com could just give decent directions...it's just terrible for where I live.
Fair notice: yahoo and mapquest give similar bad routes.
All seem to value shortest distance over known better routes; known by locals.
AWESOME!
Unbelievably cool... You just made my life soooooooo much easier when I've got a list of unknown locations to visit. That must've been a lot of work. Thanks so much to the development & product teams and Google.
Oh yeah, I rock! Somewhere back like over a year and a half ago I had a great idea for how I wanted Google Maps to work.
My original post went into full detail on all kinds of neat stuff I wanted Google Maps to be able to do, and proposed how such features might work. Well, what do you know, they did it!
Sure, it would be nice to think that someone at Google stumbled on my suggestions and pitched it to the development team. But sadly, it's probably more likely that geek minds think alike and they came up with it independently. BUT! I still can claim I thought of it all on my own and had no idea that they would actually do it. So now I can do a self-congratulatory happy dance while I play with the exact functionality I had imagined.
The Asian lady is kind of attractive.
Oh, and that was loving awesome.
umm... http://local.live.com has had this for AGES.
Just try it people, and you'll be floored.
Google's done with GoogleMaps what Microsoft did with IE for years... sit on their laurels and let others innovate instead.
Now Microsoft's back, at least in the local search scene.
Also check out 'Live Search Mobile'.
The latest version (visit from your phone):
http://wls.live-int.com
Sheesh... wake up ppl
Google maps mobile (the one for PDA phones) has had the "directions to..."/"Directions from..." feature for a while now and I love it. It was annoying that they didn't have it on the full version. But you must admit, the dragging of routes is pretty awesome...
This is a marvelous feature that opens up the door to many ancillary benefits. I hope (and expect) that Google is tracking the data to observe how people are "improving" default routes. If enough people key in alternate routes it may be possible for google to suggest popular pathways that embody local knowledge of efficient routes.
It would be like having a taxi driver to give you directions, minus the fair.
She's so hot
Schawwwweeeeeht!
Yo, markthecarp (and any Google people listening): so, if locals know the best routes, how to take advantage of this? Get people (those locals) to give feedback on the routes and develop a database based on their knowledge. This could be done by offering it as a game, á là Luis von Ahn's work (see recent WIRED magazine or google him :) ). People get entertainment value, google gets routing feedback, user's get better routes ... .
Its almost like they're reading my mind. :-) I've been asking this question in my mind for so long. Why won't they let me change the route>... Thanks for tuning in Google.
great feature! i have been wanting something like this for awhile and thinking it should be implemented. Its incredible how much interactivity has been brought into the browser, no more boring forms.
Three R's
This feature seems to have disappeared... any idea why?
I am working on a google maps mashup and I wanted to introduce the multi direction feature in to my project. Does any one have a link to the updated API or a sample map that implements a driving direction with multi direction on the mashup rather than having a link to the google maps?
Thank you in advance.
I have been working on this Googlemaps for a long time to improve my website. Any useful information on how to drive this better would be appreciated
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