{"id":199736,"date":"2007-07-02T07:37:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-02T12:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/02\/ok-this-is-insanely-neat\/"},"modified":"2007-07-02T07:37:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-02T12:37:00","slug":"ok-this-is-insanely-neat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/02\/ok-this-is-insanely-neat\/","title":{"rendered":"OK, This is Insanely Neat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know that whenever I Mapquest something (actually Yahoo), I frequently know a better way to get there once presented with the map.<\/p>\n<p>Now you can fix it before printing.<\/p>\n<p>WOOT! <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2007\/06\/29\/google_driving_directions_drag_and_drop\/\">Google embarasses MapQuest<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Driving directions redux<br \/>By Cade Metz in San Francisco \u2192 More by this author<br \/>Published Friday 29th June 2007 20:26 GMT<br \/>Mobile computing: Opportunities and risk &#8211; Free whitepaper<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll never use MapQuest again. With a new addition to its Google Maps service, Google has completely reinvented the notion of online driving directions, letting you adjust routes with a simple drag and drop.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, when you asked services like MapQuest or Google Maps for driving directions, you took what they gave you. Now, thanks to Google\u2019s latest brainstorm, you can customize your directions on the fly. If you\u2019re dead-set on avoiding a particularly-congested part of town, for instance, you can drag your driving route a little this way or that &#8211; and Google will automatically change the turn-by-turn directions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know that whenever I Mapquest something (actually Yahoo), I frequently know a better way to get there once presented with the map. Now you can fix it before printing. WOOT! Google embarasses MapQuest Driving directions reduxBy Cade Metz in San Francisco \u2192 More by this authorPublished Friday 29th June 2007 20:26 GMTMobile computing: Opportunities &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1060,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}