Comments on: Google Maps Launches Walking Directions

By: killerog13

killerog13 — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:26:15 +0000

map24 has it already for a long time, but I don’t know if you’d call them major.

By: twiddle

twiddle — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:43:08 +0000

Would be nice if users could rate the safety of the neighbourhood. Assuming people just don’t use it to find crack.

By: Danielle

Danielle — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 05:37:50 +0000

It’s graet to see the interest in Google’s new Walking Directions. In Australia, whereis.com, has been providing Australian’s with walking directions for years. Just select ‘Travel by Foot’ when you’re getting a directions search. It’s a really useful tool that uses walking and bike trails to calculate the route.

By: kdan

kdan — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:26:59 +0000

Nice little feature, Google just need to make it available to us in the UK.

I had an interesting problem with Google maps this morning with IE6. Any page which used Google maps IE would refuse to show and give an ‘Operation not Allowed’ error message. I eventually found out it was only caused if the JS Script include was in the head with a self closing base tag. Explicitly closing the base tag () fixed it.

I wonder if this update had anything to do with it as it was working perfectly yesterday.

By: Jack Matier

Jack Matier — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:43:14 +0000

I’d love to see biking directions now, specifically with detection of what roads you can and can’t bike on.

By: Dan Grossman

Dan Grossman — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:37:28 +0000

Very walkable 85% here in Philadelphia, PA. I wish they’d add Philadelphia to Google Transit, though, as there’s plenty of public transportation, it’s just hard to figure out what bus, trolley and subways to hop to get where you’re going.

By: Andre Ward

Andre Ward — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:07:47 +0000

Looks good to me, but I wouldn’t use it. Since here in Puerto Rico everything is tight, you basically don’t need directions if you’re from around here.