Creating Guidebook Maps With Google Maps
I’ve been creating my own maps on Google maps forever, making my own little guidebooks of Salt Lake City forever. Now Google has rolled out its City Tours feature for planning and navigating itineraries.
Currently a Google Labs project (read work in progress), City Tours helps “identify points of interest and plan multi-day trips to most major-cities.” To build your tour, just enter the destination city, and City Tours automatically maps out a plan with activity suggestions for each day. The site also suggests how long to spend at each place and clocks the walking distance between destinations. (keep in mind Google maps walking distance feature is still in Beta so its a work in progress) My favorite feature is that you can edit the sights, and change the date and length of your visit.
The site is still very much in lab status so I’ll keep making my own guidebook maps and pasting them into my little black Moleskinefor now, but this is a great step in the right direction. Check out City Tours for yourself, then let me know what you think.
