{"id":6192,"date":"2017-11-08T07:45:29","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T15:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=6192"},"modified":"2017-11-08T07:45:29","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T15:45:29","slug":"cool-google-maps-news-mapping-pollution-seeing-restaurant-wait-times-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/08\/cool-google-maps-news-mapping-pollution-seeing-restaurant-wait-times-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Cool Google Maps news: Mapping pollution, seeing restaurant wait times, and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On Google search (and soon Maps)\u00a0you can <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/products\/maps\/skip-line-restaurant-wait-times-search-and-maps\/\">see wait times for nearly a million sit-down restaurants<\/a> around the world. Search for the restaurant on Google, open the business listing, and scroll down to the Popular Times section. \u201cYou can even scroll left and right to see a summary of each day\u2019s wait times below the hour bars\u2013so you can plan ahead to beat the crowds.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Google mapped air quality across California, with Street View cars spending 4,000 hours driving 100,000 miles in SF, LA, and the Central Valley. <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/products\/maps\/getting-hyper-local-mapping-street-level-air-quality-across-california\/\">Check out the preliminary results<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Did you know that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/timeline\">your timeline on Maps<\/a>\u00a0makes it easy to revisit the places you\u2019ve been, filter by activity (e.g. horseback riding), and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.google\/products\/maps\/remember-where-youve-been-and-what-youve-done-your-timeline-ios\/?ref=producthunt\">more<\/a>?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/NewImage-6.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"597\" height=\"247\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 On Google search (and soon Maps)\u00a0you can see wait times for nearly a million sit-down restaurants around the world. Search for the restaurant on Google, open the business listing, and scroll down to the Popular Times section. \u201cYou can even scroll left and right to see a summary of each day\u2019s wait times below [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6192"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6193,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6192\/revisions\/6193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}