{"id":688067,"date":"2010-03-10T19:23:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T00:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/green.yahoo.com\/blog\/ecogeek\/1320\/google-maps-adds-bicycle-information.html"},"modified":"2010-03-10T19:23:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T00:23:00","slug":"google-maps-adds-bicycle-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/688067","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps adds bicycle information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Google-bike\" height=\"183\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/l.yimg.com\/a\/feeds\/us\/grn\/green_ecogeek\/google-bike.jpg?resize=468%2C183\" width=\"468\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Beginning today, Google has begun <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/biking-directions-added-to-google-maps.html\">providing bicycle directions<\/a> for its Google Maps service with directions for cyclists in 150 cities in the United States.  Google already incorporates public-transit and walking directions in addition to automobile driving directions, and the bicycling community has been calling for Google to add bike routes for some time.<\/p>\n<p>The routing suggested for cyclists is designed to avoid freeways and high-traffic areas, and to select gentler terrain by routing around hills.  To make it even more useful for riders on the go, Google <a href=\"http:\/\/gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/09\/google-maps-adds-directions-for-cylists\/\">expects to have a mobile version available<\/a> in the near future, as well.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/l.yimg.com\/a\/feeds\/us\/grn\/green_ecogeek\/v7vfyhqk39a\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning today, Google has begun providing bicycle directions for its Google Maps service with directions for cyclists in 150 cities in the United States. Google already incorporates public-transit and walking directions in addition to automobile driving directions, and the bicycling community has been calling for Google to add bike routes for some time. The routing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2495,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-688067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2SZR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2495"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}