New York Times Teams with Google Maps for Vacation Guide
July 11, 2006. The New York Times has teamed up with Google Maps to provide a very valuable vacation guide for travelers to the 50 States in the US, as well as some destinations in Canada and the Caribbean. Its weekly “36 Hours� column offers a weekend-long itinerary for a different North American city each week. It now makes the last 247 of these columns, going back to 2002, available on an interactive Google map.
These columns have always been very enjoyable reading for those who love to travel. They are particularly interesting because they cover quaint little towns off the beaten path as well as major travel destinations. They are very good at giving the reader the true flavor of a town, and pointing out some of the attractions that vacation travelers will not want to miss. However, they have never been easily accessible in one place until now.
This New York Times feature, “36 Hours: City by City� is easy to use. You can click on the icons of the Google map to browse the 36 Hours columns from the past three years. The only thing the columns generally don’t include is where you can find a good vacation rental. However, this can easily be done by using VacationRental.org and other vacation rental directories.
