An app that will give me directions but route me past interesting things
June 30, 2015 8:38 AM Subscribe
Apple Maps and the Google Maps app will give me directions. Apple Maps and the Google Maps app will give me restaurant reviews. With either of these apps, is there any way to combine these functions-- as in, "Google, get me to Piccadilly Circus and tell me the highest-rated restaurant along the way?" Or "Get me to Piccadilly Circus and route me past a good French restaurant?" If not, is there any app that will do this?
(Obviously, I can piece together a solution by looking up a good restaurant, and then getting directions to it, and then once I'm there, getting directions from it to my final destination. But I'm hoping for a more seamless solution.)
(Obviously, I can piece together a solution by looking up a good restaurant, and then getting directions to it, and then once I'm there, getting directions from it to my final destination. But I'm hoping for a more seamless solution.)
Not an app, but there are a few tools that mash up wikipedia with maps:
- Wikimapia The category dropdown has some broad top-level categories, but you can search and find more specific ones. I linked to a map showing places with historical importance, but here's one with "Film/TV locations", etc..
- wiki-map.com
posted by Jack Karaoke at 12:32 AM on July 1, 2015
- Wikimapia The category dropdown has some broad top-level categories, but you can search and find more specific ones. I linked to a map showing places with historical importance, but here's one with "Film/TV locations", etc..
- wiki-map.com
posted by Jack Karaoke at 12:32 AM on July 1, 2015
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posted by soelo at 9:20 AM on June 30, 2015 [5 favorites]