I just noticed this new feature of Google Maps over the weekend - you can now customize the directions Google provides, simply by dragging the provided route.

Last weekend, my wife & I decided to take our daughter to the zoo. The last time I’ve been to the zoo being a field trip back in elementary school, I needed some directions, so of course I went to Google. Just by tracing my cursor over the route, I noticed this slick little feature.

Now, if you don’t like the directions provided by Google, you can just drag the little blue direction line to follow the route you’d prefer. Helpful if you know that there’s some heavy construction on the route provided, or, if you decide to go nuts like I did above, and make a few out of the way stops on the way to where you’re going.