would have been totes helpful three years ago
Google Maps keeps getting better and better, right? I just noticed that there is now an option to choose walking directions when you're mapping out a route. This is helpful in my current neighborhood, where there are a lot of one-way streets. Plus, I'll be walking more often as gasoline becomes unaffordable on a librarian's salary.
I just wish that Google would have had this feature during my first year of graduate school when I was living on the isthmus and completely confounded by the weird downtown grid. I used Google driving directions, which were not very efficient on foot!
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The thing I'm impressed with is the "real view" driving thing--though it kind of makes me car sick.
We've been using this feature at the library where I work now, since many of us are new hires and naturally want to know where we can walk to for lunch.
It's been pretty useful so far, although Google Maps does not (yet) seem to recognize that we can get to the nearest main road by crossing the street and walking across a big parking lot. It thinks we need to follow the street and make a long loop around.
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