much more flexible google mapping

Google maps just became much better today. It is now possible to manually modify parts of a trip to use roads other than those originally suggested.

I also came across MapMyRun, a fitness website that provides a particularly nice google maps mashup:

They offer lots of good features to plan a running route. I wonder how they did the topographic view though.

I am going to have to spend at least a weekend with the google mapping API again!