A Taxi Google Maps Application

A Google Maps application for calculating taxi costs and routes has been opened at Kiteentaksi (only in Finnish) pages. The idea is to enter origin and destination street addresses, and use Google Maps API to calculate the route and time it takes to drive. The cost is easily calculated based on the length of the journey. It’s a nice little application, and shows the advantages of using Ajax for interactive functionality.

I have also used Prototype Javascript framework for creating it. It’s a brilliant piece of code that makes handling various browser quirks a breeze.