Google Maps Updates
July 12th, 2007
Googles Maps has made some great updates lately. Two that are extremely useful are the ability to drag your route to modify it and the ability to add a location to your directions if you don’t know the address but do know where it’s located on the map.
To show you these new features, Google has put together this short video. Enjoy!
Thanks to: Lifehacker
I talked to a guy last week that works for Google and he was telling me about this stuff. He works in the department that works to make the existing apps more user friendly…these two things were ones he mentioned working on. So, if you have any great ideas for improvement, I just might know the guy to talk to :)
Dave: That’s awesome! How’d you make that connection?
I would hope to be able to see the results of driving directions in miles rather than km, or at least the abiliby to select miles. My route request Niagra to Lancaster PA returns results in km which means almost everone with an american car has to make a conversion for each of 30+ segments. Fortunately there are other sites until this gets resolved or at least made more obvious how it is to be done.
Mark
Mark: Not sure why you’re having problems with that. When I use Google Maps, I’ve never had it return results in km. They always show up in miles. And I checked the route from Niagra to Lancaster, PA, and it shows up in miles when I do it. Maybe you have a setting changed or something because I’ve never run across that.