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Google Maps tells you how to get from here to there - literally
This is not, by far, the oddest thing we've seen on Google Maps. For example, last year if you looked for directions from a US location to destination in Europe, Google would tell you to "Swim across the Atlantic." The company seems to have removed that suggestion, possibly after someone at Google pointed out that it would be faster to get use a hot air balloon.
[via Google Blogoscoped]
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Subscribe to commentsDaanJan 9th 2008 9:12PM
Optionally, if you are Dutch and want to go from "hier" to "daar" you would start in Austria and end up in the UK :)
ErikJan 10th 2008 8:08AM
If you try to go from "hell" to "highwater" you get from Michigan to Ohio...
noppadonJan 10th 2008 8:11AM
Can someone tell me how to display Googlemap Japan in English? Now the map and interface are in Japanese. So I cannot really use it unless I can read it. At least they should display location name in English, so I can use this new feature of Googlemap.
AbisolaJan 10th 2008 8:11AM
Google also tells you how to get from A to Z! Amazing, eh?
keinJan 10th 2008 10:15AM
Yes, I use google maps for GPS navigation
And It is accurate and useful
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FredJan 10th 2008 1:08PM
You can also use Google Maps to find your way from Poverty to Easy Street. I played around with it until it got boring (which is, by the way a city in Oregon):
http://ochsenhirt.org/2008/01/10/the-road-to-easy-street-is-ky-256/
You could also fill in your own joke using Lancaster County, PA:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&saddr=blue+ball,+pa&daddr=paradise,+pa&sll=40.025255,-76.12216&sspn=0.037924,0.077591&ie=UTF8&z=12&om=1
Chris O'RourkeJan 10th 2008 2:06PM
I enjoyed this one:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&saddr=Fucking,+5121+Ostermiething,+Braunau+am+Inn,+Upper+Austria,+Austria&daddr=Hell,+Stj%C3%B8rdal,+Nord-Tr%C3%B8ndelag,+Norway&sll=46.027482,6.416016&sspn=10.693989,16.896973&ie=UTF8&cd=2&z=5&om=1 (NSFW due to the F-bomb) but nice to know how to get from f**king to hell in a short 1 day 2 hour drive.
michaelJan 12th 2008 3:11PM
That's why I use Live Maps. Literally no problems/bugs like this. :)
http://maps.live.com/