Citymapper is what happens when you understand user experience

Re:Citymapper is what happens when you understand user exper... by josephschmoe on Thursday August 28, 2014 @01:17PM (#8238454)

Honestly, the biggest fault of Google Maps is that I can't find something "along the way" to something, just nearby. I'd be much happier if I could specify "TGIF's on the way to Alice's house" or "Gas stations along the way to Las Vegas near the halfway point."

I can't get too mad at it, since I can just zoom out and it'll search from the center of the map - but it's not very effective if the distances are long or if I'm using the text interface.

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Re:Citymapper is what happens when you understand user exper... by artr on Thursday August 28, 2014 @09:57PM (#8240815)

TomTom will actually do this. You can specify that you want to go to a gas station along your route and it will list all of them and the detour distance required. Unfortunately TomTom makes you pay for live traffic data.

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Re:Citymapper is what happens when you understand user exper... by SlashmanX on Thursday August 28, 2014 @01:24PM (#8238497)

You can add extra location to directions by clicking the + to the bottom left of the existing ones (in browser at least). Although I'm not sure if that works with generic locations (like gas stations etc)

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Re:Citymapper is what happens when you understand user exper... by dwynings on Thursday August 28, 2014 @03:25PM (#8239190)

Checkout Waze. It calculates time off your current route.

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Re:Citymapper is what happens when you understand user exper... by pdaddyo on Friday August 29, 2014 @08:37AM (#8242234)

Since Google now own Waze, hopefully these features will be heading to maps soon.

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