Tag: ROUTES

Sometime in the last week or so Ask.com launched a brand new map and driving direction service that definitely takes more than one cue from Google Maps. In fact, its basic functionality works pretty much exactly like Google Maps'. You can click and drag the map and zoom just like with Google Maps and it has street, satellite, and hybrid ("mixed") views like you're accustomed to. Once you ...

It was really the inevitable Google Maps hack: PackageMapper uses Google Maps to draw a map of your incoming package's route, and works for UPS, FedEx, and USPS. Even neater, it can show you the routes for many packages at once so you get an at-a-glance view of where your  packages are. Now if only there were a service that would do this in real-time (i.e. how far is the truck away from my ...