Google maps reach a new level of awesomness

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Google maps reach a new level of awesomness

Post by CraigRat » 30 June 07 7:03 pm

The google maps directions feature just got a whole lot better!

You can now dynamically change routes by dragging the blue line on to any other road!

Click here and then drag part of the blue line to any other road...

Handy for planning those big caching days out!

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Post by Cannibal Smurf » 30 June 07 7:07 pm

WOW, that's pretty awesome :D Wonder if they'll introduce that into google earth so you can modify it for caches along a route.

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Post by Horus » 30 June 07 7:21 pm

CraigRat wrote: You can now dynamically change routes by dragging the blue line on to any other road!
That is cooler than a cool thing - but I still don't trust them :P

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Post by zactyl » 30 June 07 8:05 pm

Very cool!
Horus wrote:That is cooler than a cool thing - but I still don't trust them :P
You mean when it thinks roads join up when there's actually a cliff in the way?! :D
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Post by Mix » 30 June 07 8:16 pm

zactyl wrote:Very cool!
Horus wrote:That is cooler than a cool thing - but I still don't trust them :P
You mean when it thinks roads join up when there's actually a cliff in the way?! :D
Springbrook Rd

I invented new 4 lettered words when I got the end of that road :evil:

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Post by Alansee » 12 July 07 12:15 pm

Could be very useful! But what about the roads on the map that actually don't exist? And I assume that you heard about the person a couple of months ago who was taken down a four-wheel drive track by her car- mounted GPS! Took them two hours to find her.

Remember when your horse knew the way home?

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Post by Papa Bear_Left » 12 July 07 12:50 pm

Alansee wrote:Could be very useful! But what about the roads on the map that actually don't exist? And I assume that you heard about the person a couple of months ago who was taken down a four-wheel drive track by her car- mounted GPS! Took them two hours to find her.
There were a couple of Aussie tourists who managed to get quite a long way into the mountainous backwoods of NZ's South Island a year or two ago, thanks to a hirecar's GPSr and some inadvertantly unlocked gates.

And a village in England that's getting hordes of GPSr-misdirected traffic down its one narrow street!
Alansee wrote:Remember when your horse knew the way home?
Ummm.. no. :shock: My grandfather had a horse in the 30's, but that was a bit anachronistic even then!

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