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Google maps reach a new level of awesomness
Posted: 30 June 07 7:03 pm
by CraigRat
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!
Posted: 30 June 07 7:07 pm
by Cannibal Smurf
WOW, that's pretty awesome
Wonder if they'll introduce that into google earth so you can modify it for caches along a route.
Re: Google maps reach a new level of awesomness
Posted: 30 June 07 7:21 pm
by Horus
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
Re: Google maps reach a new level of awesomness
Posted: 30 June 07 8:05 pm
by zactyl
Very cool!
Horus wrote:That is cooler than a cool thing - but I still don't trust them
You mean when it thinks roads join up when there's actually a cliff in the way?!
Springbrook Rd
Re: Google maps reach a new level of awesomness
Posted: 30 June 07 8:16 pm
by Mix
zactyl wrote:Very cool!
Horus wrote:That is cooler than a cool thing - but I still don't trust them
You mean when it thinks roads join up when there's actually a cliff in the way?!
Springbrook Rd
I invented new 4 lettered words when I got the end of that road
Posted: 12 July 07 12:15 pm
by Alansee
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?
Posted: 12 July 07 12:50 pm
by Papa Bear_Left
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.
My grandfather had a horse in the 30's, but that was a bit anachronistic even then!