{"id":2580,"date":"2007-06-28T13:40:57","date_gmt":"2007-06-28T19:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=2580"},"modified":"2009-08-26T14:39:47","modified_gmt":"2009-08-26T19:39:47","slug":"change-your-google-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/change-your-google-route\/","title":{"rendered":"Change your Google route"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now this is just too cool&#8230;<br \/>\nFrom <a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/software\/google-maps\/drag-and-drop-to-tweak-your-driving-route-273251.php\">Lifehacker:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Don&#8217;t like the driving route <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maps.google.com\">Google Maps<\/a> doled out to you? Now you can change the driving directions by grabbing the blue route line and dragging it to create a new destination point, which will in turn create a new route.<br \/>\nAs you drag your new destination point, the route changes on the fly to give you an idea of how your new point will change your route. It&#8217;s always been a little annoying\u00e2\u20ac\u201despecially when you want to send a map to another person\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwhen you know the default directions don&#8217;t highlight the best route, so this excellent and easy-to-use feature will certainly come in useful. To undo your changes, just right-click the new destination point and select &#8220;Remove this destination.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now if I could just get the map to import into my handheld GPS unit I&#8217;d be in absolute heaven.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/google-latlong.blogspot.com\/2007\/06\/its-click-drag-situation.html\">More from Google<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now this is just too cool&#8230; From Lifehacker: Don&#8217;t like the driving route Google Maps doled out to you? Now you can change the driving directions by grabbing the blue route line and dragging it to create a new destination point, which will in turn create a new route. As you drag your new destination &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/change-your-google-route\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Change your Google route<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23,3,12],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-2580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-hacks","category-misc","category-techno","tag-geocaching"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-FC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}