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Monica ([personal profile] cellio) wrote2007-03-29 10:02 pm
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laugh of the day

Google Maps directions from Pittsburgh to London (not Ontario), courtesy of Dani. It's cool that they have a sense of humor, but I wonder about their optimization criteria. (Why Boston?) :-)

[identity profile] baron-steffan.livejournal.com 2007-03-30 07:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, okay, that's cute, and not to be a party-pooper, but consider this. Most travel-mapping programs (this one included, I'm pretty sure) will tell you to take a ferry if that's the way to get over a body of water. So why can't they (weighting the whole trip for car travel, which is, after all, the point of the exercise) give you directions to Newark or JFK or Logan, then tell you to park, book a rental at the nearest airport across the pond , and catch the next flight out?


For the SCAdians reading this, it reminds me of the days before Drachenwald went kingdom. Event directions often included "From Drachenwald: Sail due west. Beach the longboats on the Labrador coast, then pillage your way southwest until you reach I-95 and follow standard directions from there."