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- tvc15, on 10/12/2007, -2/+37The thing I really like is that it zooms where the pointer is rather than the center of the map.
- carpediem, on 10/12/2007, -0/+34Well, Google Earth does many things that Google Maps don't. More important to Google, the feature has been available on Windows Live Local http://local.live.com for quite some time. Google needed to do this just to keep up with its direct competition. Competition is good, and drives new features like this. Without competition, products rest on their laurels like Mapquest did (for way too long, can we say decade-old-technology) and like Microsoft did with Internet Explorer.
- warfang, on 10/12/2007, -2/+36This is a very cool feature. Wherever your mouse is when you scroll the wheel, that point is where it zooms in/out.
- liquidedge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23Dear Google Maps:
Make it so that I can drag and drop my route! Sometimes I really do know how to get there, just want to measure the miles! - peteraldred, on 10/12/2007, -3/+26Digg for the new functionality, but Google's trailing way behind Microsoft's latest offering, http://live.local.com . I'm no MS Fanboy (MS free at home for a few years now) but they've had scroll-wheel zooming for a while and some of the stuff they've got (Collections, Bird's eye view, high-res of the UK (where I am, which is what matters to me, YMMV :) ) makes the whole application much more usable, and more intuitive. I like Google, they're revolutionary in so many ways (even if their Linux support is a little lacking, though that's improving fast) but they can't afford to rest on their laurels.
- startrek, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23I think you mean http://local.live.com
- pegisys, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20I have wanting this every since maps have been put online, it just feels natural
- shaaban, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16This feature has always been on Google Earth. Seems appropriate to add it to Google Maps.
- timdietrich, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17Finally! Sure it could be smoother but remember it is a web app and not local to your desktop.
- SpacePope, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Hmm, I on the other hand love that, but yeah, a toggle would be nice. Also to center the map to where it zooms.
- BlueLaser, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13True that...Double true! ;)
- cambrown99, on 10/12/2007, -5/+15Google Maps is the best!
- MySchizoBuddy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8u can do that in Google earth. draw a line or polyline and it tells you how long it is.
U can draw a series of them and get total route length. - shuffle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Its all about the Hamiltons baby!
- roadrunner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7http://maps.yahoo.com/beta/
- smash, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7It also works for Apple notebooks with the two fingered scrolling on the touchpad. Sweet
- sych0, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9uhhh, you guys know this has worked forever in internet explorer right? It just never worked in firefox. It's now fixed in firefox.
- frogpelt, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Yahoo Maps has that feature. Fo Sho.
- rayishu, on 10/12/2007, -8/+14uhh i dont really like that there should be a option to toggle between that
- frogpelt, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8They copied Yahoo! Beta Maps... yes they did.
I like yahoo's a little better I think. You can have checkpoint rather than just a starting and an end point. Pretty smooth.
http://www.maps.yahoo.com/beta - BrokenBeta, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7My area of the UK is also far far clearer.
local.live.com: "I can see my house!"
maps.google.com: "...That's a house, isn't it?" - st0ney, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6It still needs to load the page so it won't be seamless. Very cool though.
- c0demonkeee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6maps.ask.com had this functionality for a while. It also allows you to right click and set a point on the map as well as add multiple destinations.
- jorisb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I find it annoying that it goes in the opposite direction as google earth.
is it just me? - eridius, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Google Maps, not Google Earth
- kaytrio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Well, you can kind of do that in Google Earth. Click on the ruler, then change the tab to path. Though It can't follow roads, it's still a pretty cool feature.
- h2d2, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9You can also double click and it will re-center and zoom in one step. Very cool.
- CrimsonBlur, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Finally! I have been waiting for this feature forever. However, Microsoft and Yahoo! have had this feature since the introduction of their newer Maps applications, which was a while ago now. As far as I can tell, the Map aps from both MS and Yahoo! are technically superior to Google's and have more useful features. Despite that I still use Google's because it is considerably faster to use and search for locations.
- SPLASTiK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I'm just waiting for the feature of plotting more than 2 points at a time to get directions from.
- onebigword, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/
Works well, and you can save routes. - rnmrnmrnm, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6ah, the irony. i have no wheel...
- CoffeeCup, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Still no right click.
- marcuschi, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8I dont get it. Wasnt Microsoft doing this like months ago?
- eridius, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Who said it was innovative? Nobody. Stop being so bitter and reading things into people's speech that aren't there. You can be happy that Google Maps added this without thinking they innovated it.
- JAWA, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2its about time. Now all they have to do is put "normal map" view on Google Earth and they can call it quites. Trying to actually find a street crossing with the hybrid mode is almost impossible.
- mgreenwald, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I have wanted this since it went live. I always thought it would be great to be able to snap the little points to different raods and whatnot.
- asurroca, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I just noticed that while it does support the scrollwheel (not as nicely as Greasemonkey extensions, I might add), it doesn't support the horizontal scrolling that many scrollwheel mice have... Windows Live Local ALSO supports horizontal scrolling, which makes things even easier for the user..... C'mon Google, what gives?
- chaosmachine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2is there any app that can do this? i was trying to find one the other day, but came up empty.
- glucoseboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Very nice, it may not be the first, but hey, I use google map (and yahoo maps) the most.
Now if they only can fix that printing bug where street names will show up on the screen but not on the print out. - MySchizoBuddy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3yup thats similar to MS local's Pushpin. I really love that feature. Google maps should implement it
- david76, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2What about if you could click on a segment of a route to find an alternate?
- Talus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2FINALLY!
I've been scrolling my mouse wheel on google maps since its release (but now it finally does something) :D - yafo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3CAD monkeys everywhere... rejoice.
- jallen7usa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I've always wanted that type of feature as well and have been quite satisfied with Ask.com Maps. They allow you to right-click a point and "Add Location" and they allow multi-destination directions. So what I do is add my start address, right-click and add on a particular road I know I want to take (repeat if necessary) and then add my end point. It works quite well.
http://maps.ask.com/maps
Oh and they've had the scroll-wheel zoom for a while now as well. - groogs, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I've been wanting this ever since I tried Yahoo Maps when it was first released ..
No really, I'm not being facetious, I liked that feature, and I wanted google maps to have it because I otherwise liked it better. - pompom246, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I find it rather sad that so many diggers would confuse Google Maps with Google Earth.
- djyoda, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2doesnt take much to impress the google-lovers does it ;) ...especially considering Windows Live Local (http://local.live.com/) has had that since it launched a few months ago
- peteraldred, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@npinski - not where I am, unfortunately. Can't make out roads smaller than a dual carriageway, or even tell what's a river and what's tarmac!
Oh, and thanks for correcting the link, startrek. :)
@toupee - that would be nice, maybe MS will pick up on it. Woo competition!
@david76 - no problems here, maybe there's a bug in how the route calculator sees you bit of the map? - Judahgabriel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Not to sound like a Google fanboy or a Microsoft weenie, but Microsoft's Virtual Maps has had this feature for some time now.
Still, cool to see it in new arenas. - blinks0312, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1this is not new. its pretty old actually.
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