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Google Maps Now Helps You Stroll to Your Destination

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Google Maps now offers walking directions

Search Engine Roundtable reports that Google Maps now provides optional walking directions. Just click Get Directions, enter the starting and ending addresses, click the Get Directions button, and select the Walking option. You get a map with walker-friendly directions (no freeways for you!) and timings as part of the package.

In my tests, Google Maps provided useful walking directions for locations within about 6 miles of the starting location (the official limit is 10Km, or about 6.2 miles). However, if you're wanting to plan a longer hike, you're on your own. And, keep in mind that the directions are in beta, and "use caution when walking in unfamiliar areas." You Have Been Warned.

To learn more about these and other improvements to Google Maps, drop in frequently on the Google Earth and Map team's LatLong Blog.

Give it a try and tell us how you like (or hate) this new feature.

COMMENTS
avatarNot exactly, and here's why...

Driving directions in large cities need to take one-way streets in mind, and might route drivers onto freeways, parkways, or tollways (all very pedestrian-unfriendly). Pedestrian directions in such cases will be very different: you can walk the "wrong" way down a one-way street, but you can't use the freeway.

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It's amazing how illogical a business built on binary logic can be.

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avatarSame thing

This is weird, because traditionally driving directions and walking directions have been the same thing.

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avatarOverdue, especially in urban areas

After all no one actually drives in New York.  I look forward to using it.

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