 Google Maps: Draggable routes
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Check this out. Google maps has a new feature...no, it's not a software glitch.  You can now drag your route to a different route if you don't like the one Google automatically provides. And you know how we hate to take the most direct route on slabs. 
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 nice, what will they think of next
Let my dying thought be that every mile was fun and let my tombstone read,"They never made one fast enough for me."
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I like it. Makes finding the scenic route a lot easier. 
We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.
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great feature. I know there are many here that don't like or even have a close to hate for MS, but MS streets and trips has been set up like that for a long time. I like being able to put in my starting and ending points, then make the trip the way I want it
BA has Freak, 160mains, 44pilots, air mix3 1/2 to 4 turns, BUBS dresser dogs. Never had more fun on any bike - 2nd bike 2008 RIIIT
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AWESOME!! It's about time!!
I have always been too cheap to buy any mappping software and have relied on the internet for mapping. I usually would have to do several maps to get a route I wanted and it still didn't usually come out right.
Soren
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Worn Saddle
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A word to the wise is not necessary. It is the stupid ones who need the advice.
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Pretty neat.
Last edited by beanache; 07/01/2007 11:40 AM.
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Should be Riding
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Jack, I am also too cheap and I have been looking for this for a LONG time!! I noticed it just the other day by accident. I used to have to pick internediate points along the way and map out my route piece by piece to get what I wanted.
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Hot diggity!!! 
07 TBA Pacific Blue and White.. stock for now!
A bike has half the wheels my cage does.. but 3x the fun factor
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Yep, yep.Pretty Neat, pretty neat, pretty good, pretty good!
"The only way to break a bad habit was to replace it with a better habit." Jack Nicholson
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Aren't you the guy who traded his TBA and bought a harley cruiser then made it into a road king then sold it because you needed the space for your monster truck magazines, fat porn, and piels beer cans?
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Hey Pat, now that you moved to Honeoye are you going to change your handle to Honey? 
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Hey Pat, now that you moved to Honeoye are you going to change your handle to Honey?
You don't know how many times I have said those exact words myself. 
A word to the wise is not necessary. It is the stupid ones who need the advice.
Pat
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Check Pants
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Quote:
Check this out. Google maps has a new feature...no, it's not a software glitch.
You can now drag your route to a different route if you don't like the one Google automatically provides. And you know how we hate to take the most direct route on slabs.
I must be a nit-wit, can't figure out how to work that function.
I've used the Mapquest with multiple stops but you have to know town/address reference points. Dragging to a city would be quicker.
NITWIT UPDATE: I figured it out, awesome feature!
Last edited by ssjones; 07/04/2007 12:09 PM.
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