For the benefit of others who'll find it useful: send a text message of the form "directions from &lj;address> to <address>" to 46647 (GOOGL on the phone buttons), and Google will send back text messages containing driving directions.
I don't know how picky it is about address formats. I just gave it number street city state without any commas and it worked.
The tool I'd already found useful in the past is to send the name of a business (or a search phrase in the name) followed by a comma and a zip code (or a city name and a state abbreviation), to 46647, and get back text messages containing 'nearby' locations matching the search term (ranked closest to farthest, IIRC) -- name, address, phone number for each match.
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I don't know how picky it is about address formats. I just gave it number street city state without any commas and it worked.
The tool I'd already found useful in the past is to send the name of a business (or a search phrase in the name) followed by a comma and a zip code (or a city name and a state abbreviation), to 46647, and get back text messages containing 'nearby' locations matching the search term (ranked closest to farthest, IIRC) -- name, address, phone number for each match.
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