How to get there from here.

[katster]

Google Maps instructions for going from New York, NY to Cardiff, Wales.

It's possible, if you can pull off step #23.

Comments

[jtwilson.livejournal.com]

That is awesome.

[tangaroa.livejournal.com]

The instruction to drive off a wharf is nice, too.

In a few years, we'll most likely have cars automatically pulling driving directions down off the Internet. Imagine the possibilities!

[spitgirl.livejournal.com]

That's awesome!

faszinating

[andreas_schaefer]

is there any reason as to why one is detoured through France? I mean it probably is nice, they are supposed to have better food. but to my untrained eye it looks as if a swim to Bristol would result in a shorter route.

Note: I am aware that a routing algorithm is difficult to write ( having observed the advice some of the build into cars routers give ).
Also the first few drivers who trusted the sat-nav more than their brains have been noticed. ( ending up in underground stations, canals, wrong cities,... ) I suspect we can expect more of those in future.

Re: faszinating

[katster.livejournal.com]

I wonder if going to France as opposed to Bristol is a quirk of the whole problem of mapping a globe on a flat surface. I'm probably wrong, but it's my first quick thought on the matter.

As for satnav, I've got the navigation feature on my cellphone and have been laughing a few times at some of the stuff it's come up with. But we've actually had the whole satnav thing turn deadly, when people rely more on the satnav than the map. The satnav decides to take them on little mining roads that are nearly impassable in the dry season, let alone in winter conditions...and then they're stuck, out there in the boonies, and nobody knows where they are...

It just makes you want to thump those people and go "Stay on the established highways, you nitwits."

-kat

[nekoneko.livejournal.com]

OMG! That's hilarious, Kat! XD I'm gonna show this to my husband when he wakes up. That's a riot!

Actually anyone who

[andreas_schaefer]

relies more on the voice of a navigation device than his own sense - and ends up in the harbor ( has happened afaik ) is obviously to stupid to drive and should loose his driving licence. Being more densely settled people are less likely to be lost. ( and the cell-nets have nearly 100 percent coverage )

I have used an online router for bicycles occasionally but the algorithm of tat one is set to favor official state cycling paths ( as opposed to city or federal funded paths - or even normal roads ) as a result it finds interesting detours because its tiny brain does not recognize the park that one can ( and should ) cut through. It would be amusing if one did not use these things to fnd out about routes one does NOT know.

Re: faszinating

[phenyx.livejournal.com]

My suspicion is that some joker at Google put a single bogus navigation edge crossing the Atlantic from New York to Le Havre into their database - seeing as it's the only valid crossing, every trip from one side of the Atlantic to the other will use that edge. For example, my road trip from Dawson City, YK to Bucharest, Romania goes through the same transatlantic routing...

[happymomof2.livejournal.com]

only 29 days and 13 hours...

[salinn.livejournal.com]

Enh, it's *only* 3,462 miles.

[madforry.livejournal.com]

That's just nuts.

[robotmadder.livejournal.com]

*giggling*