Google Maps learns how to walk

[ckd]

The 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.

Comments

[sethb.livejournal.com]

It seemed too risky.

Police use it, too.