Google travel directions gadget puts public transit directions everywhere… oh, wait, they don’t include transit?

From Google Maps Mania: The Google Maps team have released a handy ‘Travelling Directions’ gadget in time for the holiday period. A lot of people will be doing a lot of travelling over the next two weeks. Now with the new directions gadget, you can bring driving and walking directions to your home page or […]

Thoughts on “Here Comes Everybody”

By now most people know about Wikipedia, the collaboratively-written encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Isn’t that great and impressive that millions of people who don’t know each other can create such a useful and comprehensive resource? There are many other powerful examples of online collaboration, and sometimes it seems as if there is an equal […]

Feedback on iPhone’s transit directions & maps

The Google Transit team sent out an announcement to their partners on some of the early responses to the inclusion of Google Transit in the default software for the iPhone in the 2.2 update.  I’ve been excited about the potential for easy-to-use transit information on handheld wireless devices since I started doing work with Google […]

Transit directions on the iPhone

The reason I bought an iPhone was an early-October rumor that the Google Transit trip planner, and walking directions, were going to become part of the iPhone’s mapping application with the 2.2 software update. Sure enough, in late November, it happened (link is to Google blog).  And, it’s great. As of October 21, 2008, Apple […]