{"id":460,"date":"2008-08-01T09:02:03","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T14:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/72.233.35.22\/?p=460"},"modified":"2008-08-01T09:02:03","modified_gmt":"2008-08-01T14:02:03","slug":"google-maps-walking-directions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/?p=460","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps Walking Directions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe this is old news, but I just noticed today that google maps now has walking directions! They did not import properly into the embeddable frame though, but heres a screen shot and a link.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=d&#038;saddr=Unknown+road+%4042.356396,+-71.062205&#038;daddr=42.355531,-71.066394+to:Unknown+road+%4042.354569,+-71.070807+to:Unknown+road+%4042.354170,+-71.083774+to:Amherst+Alley+%4042.357781,+-71.094309+to:Unknown+road+%4042.358669,+-71.094898&#038;hl=en&#038;geocode=1261604307283656752,42.356396,-71.062205%3B3317681637409893709,42.356266,-71.066096%3B10890865742106390134,42.354569,-71.070807%3B12610402903063310146,42.354170,-71.083774%3B15225736028085728393,42.357781,-71.094309%3B2589519068512069873,42.358669,-71.094898&#038;mra=dme&#038;mrcr=0&#038;mrsp=1&#038;sz=16&#038;via=1,2,3,4&#038;dirflg=w&#038;sll=42.356451,-71.0712&#038;sspn=0.012321,0.017724&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;ll=42.358956,-71.078024&#038;spn=0.02464,0.035448&#038;z=15\"><img src=\"http:\/\/72.233.35.22\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/walkingmap.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Walk from Park St. Satation to MIT Student Center\" width=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-463\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It knows that you can walk through Boston Common, and it knows where the paths are so you don&#8217;t just cut across the grass like a hillbilly. It also takes the esplanade and some of the paths near MIT. It did not, however, take the bike path near my house, there&#8217;s no faint line for it either, so that does make some sense. They do warn that it is in beta and that one should &#8220;use caution when walking in unfamiliar areas.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe this is old news, but I just noticed today that google maps now has walking directions! They did not import properly into the embeddable frame though, but heres a screen shot and a link. It knows that you can walk through Boston Common, and it knows where the paths are so you don&#8217;t just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":467,"href":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions\/467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}