New Google Maps feature: "Drag the blue line to change your route."

[George P Burdell]

Link for the lazy

 

[KLin]

I just discovered that today also. Very cool feature. :thumbsup:. the trip planning feature rocks too.

 

[Crafty35a]

Hmm, I don't seem to be able to drag the line. Anywhere I click, clicking and dragging just pans the view. What am I doing wrong?

 

[effowe]

Awesome, I was just wishing I could do this literally 10 minutes ago. I just went back and changed my route, good looking out.

I heart teh googles.

 

[slsmnaz]

good stuff!

 

[Bumrush99]

Street view is crazy.. I wonder how they take all of those pictures?

 

[homercles337]

excellent! I have been waiting for this one!

edit: im still waiting for walking routes.

 

[mb]

That is freaking awesome! Just last week I was wishing someone would do something like this!

 

[LeiZaK]

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

 

[mb]

Originally posted by: LeiZaK
When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

 

[purbeast0]

hah thats awesome. I always wondered the EXACT mileage of the other route I take home.

questoin though ... what is the yellow pointer thingie w/the pause sign in it? what does that stand for?

 

[George P Burdell]

Originally posted by: purbeast0
hah thats awesome. I always wondered the EXACT mileage of the other route I take home.

questoin though ... what is the yellow pointer thingie w/the pause sign in it? what does that stand for?

It's like a checkpoint of some sort. You can click and drag it as well, or right click for more options.

 

[FoBoT]

i was wanting something like that last week when i was printing maps for my families trip

 

[Aikouka]

It's got a couple annoyances that I don't like. Such as if you remove the "pause" destination after moving, it zooms you back out to the entire route. This is annoying if you accidentally make a mistake, now you have to zoom back in again and fix it. In my opinion, it should stay at the location.

 

[Kev]

Originally posted by: mb
That is freaking awesome! Just last week I was wishing someone would do something like this!

 

[AmpedSilence]

that is awesome.

 

[amdskip]

This rocks! Google :heart:

 

[BurnItDwn]

That is the coolest thing EVER!
I am hooked!

 

[Tyrant222]

Indeed, this is great.

I wish my gps did this.

 

[Aharami]

that is freaking awesome. i always wanted to know alternate routes to work in case one way is backed up

 

[Tifababy]

You can also move around your starting point and destination. I mapped my route to work, but the address is to the main office and not the building I work in. I was able to drag the marker to where I work and it recalculated the route.

 

[ViviTheMage]

neato

 

[ElFenix]

now if only it will tell me the shortest way to go from work, to any chase bank branch, to any whataburger (or vice versa) and then to home

edit: now i see exactly how long my exercise route is

 

[Kelemvor]

Awesome. No more putting in intermediate addresses just to try to influence where the route goes.

 

[fallenangel99]

If you use picasaweb, google added a feature that allows you to map your photos to where your pictures were actually taken. For example, you can drag/drop photos from the Strip in Vegas onto the google map view of the Strip. So, when your friends check out your picasa page, they get a map view of your photos. Very neat!