Fun with Google Maps!

Now that Google Maps has released an official API, people are doing all sorts of interesting and cool things with it. People come up with things you never even dreamed of.

Since I do a fair bit of cycling and sometimes want to plan routes for a certain distance, this web application I found is rather handy: the Gmaps Pedometer. You do have to follow the “Click here if you don’t live in Hoboken” link for a start, though… unless, of course, you do live in Hoboken…

You can also create linkable/bookmarkable URLs for future reference. As an example, this is the route I rode with the bike club this evening after work.

This is definitely going to be a useful little app, and I have serious respect for the folks who cooked up that use for Google Maps.