Travel directions

Feb 01, 2010 22:53

Tomorrow, I have an appointment.  I went to google maps for directions...

Apparently Googlemaps got a little confused.

My home is in S Minneapolis, the location I want to get to is in a St Paul suburb... and the directions looked a little odd.

First, the travel time was about 55 days.

I started with the directions, noticing that they had me going ( Read more... )

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mplsfish February 2 2010, 21:30:51 UTC
That is hilarious. Did it actually say "kayak"?

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mplsfish February 2 2010, 21:31:44 UTC
Good thing you are so smart. News of the Wierd is full of people who blindly followed gps directions to the wrong country, even crossing major bodies of water.

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kaytecat February 2 2010, 22:37:22 UTC
Yup. Kayak.

It turned out it ignored my address, and used the street number as latitude, or something like that. But if you do a search that involves going overseas, kayak is the transportation of choice.

Grin

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