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ckdThe Google Maps blog notes that they now have walking directions. It's beta, like almost everything Google does these days, but still looks like a good start.
Collecting good data for this is going to be the big challenge.
(In other news, Readercon was great. I took a fair amount of panel notes, and plan to distill them into one or more posts.)
ETA: if you're walking in an area covered by Street View, it puts little camera icons next to the steps, so you can see what the cross street will look like. Wow.
Collecting good data for this is going to be the big challenge.
(In other news, Readercon was great. I took a fair amount of panel notes, and plan to distill them into one or more posts.)
ETA: if you're walking in an area covered by Street View, it puts little camera icons next to the steps, so you can see what the cross street will look like. Wow.
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Date: 2008-07-22 19:06 (UTC)Tying your two topics together, I asked it for directions from the Burlington Marriott on Route 3A to Horn Pond in Woburn. Check out the result. The car and walking directions are quite different. It even knows that the parkway on the west side of Horn Pond is open for walking but closed to cars.