Google Maps Adds Multiple Destinations

Google added a new advanced feature to Google Maps: multiple destinations. Now, if you need to go to more than one place, you can enter more than one destination (by hitting the new “Add destination…” link) and get directions to each place in order. Not only that, but you can drag and drop the various destinations, optimizing your route and watching as your trip time gets shorter with each change.
This is a great new feature, one that brings Google closer to the options available at some of its more advanced competitors. Google still makes it harder to add destinations than most of the other Web 2.0 maps, by requiring text input for destinations that must fit a perfect, exact, specific syntax. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had trouble getting directions because I entered “137-15″, which is the syntax used on all the homes […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg and software by Elliott Back