A quick one today: Google Maps: you can search for things near a location. And you can search for routes between two locations. But what I’d like to do is search from things near the route! So, if I want to find hotels, or gas stations, or world’s largest balls of string that are within x-distance of your route, you just do a search.

Sounds like an easy and perfect mashup of gmaps with itself, to me.

Contributed by Rob Smith.