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A small (but nice) enhancement to Google Maps

July 31, 2008

When using Google Maps for driving directions, there is now an option to “Avoid Tolls”.  As the LatLong blog said:
When half your wallet is already going toward gas, it’s nice if you can save some money for ice cream instead of dumping it all off at the toll booth.
I agree.  It’s a nice little touch.

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More updates to Virtual Earth

October 16, 2007

Microsoft has just released a new version of Live Search Maps (named Gemini), as well as revealed a few more places that were updated in the past few days.
The new version has a lot of cool stuff:

1-Click Directions – Also known as “party maps”, this is a single permalink that you can send out, and [...]

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Google Maps – Click and Drag Directions

June 29, 2007

This is really cool. Once you’ve created directions in Google Maps (via a new click interface), you can drag various parts of your route. Check out the video below for a brief demonstration:

More details can be found at the Google LatLong blog.

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The state of Google Maps

June 3, 2007

It’s been quite a week for Google Maps.  Where 2.0 and the Google Developer Day last week brought a flurry of new announcements.   I’ll run through them all for you:
Driving directions for the API
You can now use driving directions on your API maps.  Not only can you do full directions, but you can capture each [...]

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