Monday, April 16th 2007
Google Maps Tells its users to 'Swim across the Atlantic Ocean'
It seems as if Google's software, designed to compete with automated map-makers such as MapQuest, still has one or two kinks that need to be worked out. While Google Maps is absolutely wonderful when telling you how to drive in either the USA or Europe, it seems not to be so good at telling you how to drive from the USA to Europe. The screenshot I attached explains the theoretical situation of me driving from (an area very close to) my house to W1zzard's (the man who started techPowerUp!). I'm not sure I can handle the extremely difficult task of swimming 3,462 miles to get into France.
Special thanks to 'Spud107' for bringing this bug to my attention.
Source:
Google Maps
22 Comments on Google Maps Tells its users to 'Swim across the Atlantic Ocean'
jus thought i'd post it in the crazy pic thread cos i found it quite amusing lol.
I welcome that prospect in fact.
And shall lol at them when they try :D
I fricking love darwin. He was the pool of sharks with laser beams that we never had...
Then I thought "No wait, there has to be a logical explanation for them doing this."
So I came up with. "They probably left it in there for people wanting to know about how much distance is between two points."
That doesn't add up because it still gives driving directions on land and only goes "As the crow flies" over the water.
So it doesn't make much logical sense to me, but it is still funny.;)
Later,
1STRIVE
Eg a way to look at maps without installing google earth?
The name Google Maps doesnt say anything about driving...
see how much fun google coders have it :roll:
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