Google Maps Adds Draggable Changing Directions

window.document.getElementById(‘post-3845’).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Google Maps has a wonderful new feature that lets you create and edit driving directions with the mouse. Here’s who it works:
Right-click anywhere and click “Directions from here”:

Then do it again at your destination, clicking “Directions to here”:

You can add another waypoint by doing that again, but even better, you can pick any point in middle of the route and drag it, and watch the route recalculate as you drag:

When you let go of the mouse, a new waypoint will have been added in the middle of your route, and the directions for all your stops will be there. You can keep adding new waypoints, dragging between waypoints to add new stops, going all kinds of crazy:

See that whole route in Google Maps by clicking here.
This is a really, really useful feature that makes complicated driving directions obscenely easy. If there’s a problem, its […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg