[URBAN NOTE] Where is it and how do you get there?

[rfmcdonald]

Both questions are easier to answer than ever before in Toronto.

• blogTO reports that Google is now offering a 411 phone number information service. "Google are doing what they do best: giving free access to information. Right now, you can call 1 (800) GOOG-411 (4664-411) and get access to every number Google has indexed on the Web, and instantly be connected (for free) to any number of your choosing. This includes any number from Toronto to across Canada and the US. It sounds too good to be true, but Google has pulled it off in such a seamless, slick way that really makes you wonder how this service can be free." They do want to build up a database of voiceprints of millions of people with their particular interests but hey, the panopticon is our friend, right?


• This unofficial site hosting the schedules for the Toronto Transit Commission's streetcars and buses has the virtue of being rather more navigable than the official TTC site.