Want to know how long it will take to walk from point A to point B? Now google mapswill calculate it for you!
That’s been there for a while, I believe.
Yeah it’s a cool feature to have, especially in major cities. I think they are also working on a feature to include bike travel times.
For extra lulz, ask for a walking path between, say, two different continents.
Yeah, I saw that as an extra feature on their “Public Transit” option; Google Maps would indicate the time needed to walk to the closest bus stop. I live in Chicago, so I walk a bit faster than the Google average.
I actually tried that, for gits and shiggles, and it didn’t work. Even from my hometown to mexico (which is only about a two hour drive) didn’t work. However, interestingly enough, my hometown in texas to vancouver, british columbia is about 33 days, 19 hours (presumably without rest). So, anybody living in Vancouver, see you in a month!
OK, you have to put in driving directions for the lulz to work. My bad!:smack:
It seems to severely overestimate the time you’d need. What speed do they think I’m walking?
Well, I don’t know about overestimating time - though it doesn’t allow for silly things like sleeping. I mapped a walk from my house to the Grand Canyon just for shits ‘n’ giggles… and it’s roughly 2100 miles and 30 days. That’s about 70 miles a day, or roughly 3 miles an hour.
I’ve been doing the route, one step at a time, via street view (how’s THAT for a lame hobby!) for about 2 months now. I’m currently in south central Colorado. It’s been fun in a strange way. Boy, there’s a whole lotta nothing along most of the way in Colorado - 30-60 miles with no paved cross streets whatsoever.
For a while, when this first debuted, the little street view guy had a backpack. I miss the backpack.
Just tried walking from Seattle, Washington to Sydney. You can drive (well, parts of it involve a kayak) but it can’t calculate walking directions. Oh well.
They got rid of the swim across the Atlantic from a pier in Boston a while back :mad:.
Yeah, it’s pretty cool. I use it to plan our my jogging routes.
You must have longer legs than me; I found the time they gave for my new walk home (just over 3 miles from my new office to my old apartment) a slight underestimate. Since I’m hardly a slow walker, I concluded they weren’t allowing time for waiting at traffic lights.
I thought it was unconstitutional to walk further than a quarter of a mile in America? 