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Bicycling Just Got A Little Easier


Jake de Grazia - Contributing Writer
Posted on Wednesday 10th March 2010

Source: maps.google.com/biking
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Google Maps has added a new feature.

In addition to driving directions, walking directions, and public transportation directions, everyone's favorite online mapping tool now offers bicycling directions.

Cyclists have been asking for the feature for a long time, but Google didn't want to launch anything until they felt they could launch something awesome:

"We knew that when we added the feature, we wanted to do it right: we wanted to include as much bike trail data as possible, provide efficient routes, allow riders to customize their trip, make use of bike lanes, calculate rider-friendly routes that avoid big hills and customize the look of the map for cycling to encourage folks to hop on their bikes. So that's exactly what we've done."

For more information, watch the video Google released on Tuesday and read what Treehugger has to say.

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