Nifty!

[firstfrost]

You can drag the route in google maps! Not only is it the function I often want, but it's the UI that's in my head!

I give all credit, deserved or no, to rifmeister, who I suggested this to back in March. I am thrilled to have someone at Google who is enacting my merest whims! Especially when they're such useful and totally cool whims as this.

But I still want to know what's up with the magic links to call any business for free...

Comments

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

I think it does try to send you on what it thinks are the fastest roads as much as possible, which isn't at all helpful for a walking route.

I also think that what it's doing isn't quite what the UI suggests - you aren't really dragging segments around, you're just adding a new "stop" to the route, no matter where you started dragging from. I bet that was a pretty easy way to do it, though, since they already had an address-based "add a stop". So it's thinking of it, still, as getting from X to Z with a detour through Y, and a detour can clearly have backtracking in a way that a route shouldn't.

But it's still neat, and it lets me say "Stop trying to send me up to the Mystic Valley Parkway on the way to the airport!" once I figure out where to drag my extra stop to. :)