Where in the World is Waldo? (PuP Tip #1)
I love maps, I love trying to find places i have lived or visited just by scrolling around Google Earth seeing if i can remember my way around… I look for places i have stayed on holiday like the little B&B whose name I’ve long ago forgotten but I remember that road up from the little beach on Ios, how the road veered left and it was at the top of the hill - following the road on a map and looking at the street names brings back great memories. Also, I love to travel, and in some ways looking at a map temporarily satisfies that hunger in me.
So imagine how thrilling it is for me to spend part of my day looking at points on a map, looking up our members’ routes and matches; helping them enter a pickup request or a driver route.
This brings me to the trusty PickupPal Globe icon. I want all our members to know and love the Globe icon because well, there’s a lot to love in PickupPal’s little Globe! What? This: when you are entering your start and stop addresses you can click on it and the glorious interactive Google map appears! It is awesome, you can see your start point or your end point, you zoom out and you see both points on the same map. You scroll a little to the right: you see where you went to High School - You scroll a little to the left: there’s that great beach!
So my PickupPal friends, you need to click on the PuP Globe! To see where you are and where you want to go, and if you have a minute, spend some time moving around the map, it is a really great way to reconnect to the places you live, work and play…. And all the while you make sure the route you are entering is not taking you from Portland, Oregon to Sydney, Australia!! Two Waldos - one little globe shaped stone.
- Suesan