San Francisco -- The team at Google Labs last summer introduced a new service dubbed as Google City Tours, one of the ongoing projects by Google Labs team that has tweaked the interface that generated a tour of various attractions near a location including real walking directions and My Maps integration within walking distance of the starting point--making it more friendly as to how people actually vacation: head to a city, pick places to go, and get precise directions to them.
It fine tuned the service as it still had some rough edges, but it proved useful enough to become quite popular. It had a few major catches, though some of which have since been rectified by the developers team which is now providing an update on their progress.
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