Sunday, April 01, 2007

Why you shouldn't totally trust Google Maps for trips

Let's say you want to go on a trip from Toronto to London, UK (not London, Ontario), and you type this in Google Maps. The result will seem surprising.



Click the map above to see what Google Maps gives you as the directions. Pay attention to step #26.

Thanks to TorCamp for providing this information. At first, I thought it was an April Fools Day joke, but apparently it's legit.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

that's hilarious.... i don't know about you but i'm not that strong of a swimmer...

Unknown said...

Yeah, I thought it was pretty funny too. I guess someone at Google didn't quite proofread this, or maybe it's just one of those Easter eggs that is famous in the software development industry. For people who don't know what Easter eggs are, they are special things that show up in the software that programmers put to as a mark of their work.