I was worried about commute times from three different points when looking for a house, so I wrote a quick and dirty little ruby script to hit the Google Drivin

I was worried about commute times from three different points when looking for a house, so I wrote a quick and dirty little ruby script to hit the Google Driving Directions API. It tiles across the area you specify and spits out a kml file that can be loaded into google earth and lets you see which areas fit your parameters (https://github.com/chrisamiller/commute-times https://github.com/chrisamiller/commute-times). There's lots of room for improvement in the code, but it's in the same vein as what this guy did and helped us quite a bit.