Google walks in with Maps walking directions
Once the province of Ask Maps before IAC gutted the project, Google Maps picked up the walking directions banner and made that feature available on its service.
How do you get to Carnegie Hall, the old joke goes. When I was a kid I could tell you how to get there because I didn’t know the punch line.
Google can tell you how to get there, and it can direct you there with walking directions. Search Engine Land picked up on the rollout of the new feature, apparently to all Google Maps users.
Urbanites and those in other pedestrian-friendly places should find walking directions a useful planning tool for their footloose ventures. But make those maps ahead of time. Google does not appear to have rolled walking directions out to its mobile users yet.
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