Google map your way to Stockholm

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Google map your way to Stockholm

by Grant Robertson Mar 29th 2007

We love road trips at Download Squad. That's why we're so excited about Google Maps ability to provide driving directions. It's not new, but Google Maps works very well. So well in fact that Google Maps can provide you with driving directions that span continents; Continents that aren't even linked by roads.

Try it yourself. Go to Google Maps and enter a location in North America, and a destination in Europe. Your resulting driving driections will include a brisk swim across the north Atlantic ocean. And, you thought you were going to be bored over spring break!

[via Gadling]

Tags: funny, google, google maps, GoogleMaps

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

martin said 2:19AM on 3-30-2007

After a bit of experimentation (I tried with Quebec, New York, Chicago, Miami on the US side, and Belfast, London, Madrid, Rome on the European side), I found you always get told

- Turn right at Long Wharf
- Swim across the Atlantic Ocean
- Slight right at E05
- At the roundabout, take the 2nd exit onto E05/Pont Vauban

What's significant about these places ?
Long Wharf is Aquarium Station, Boston massachusetts

E05 is Le havre, France

TAF said 9:47AM on 3-30-2007

Seems that Google must have uncovered some secret passageway for swiming... some undiscovered current?

RP said 1:11PM on 3-30-2007

Those Google guys are funny.

But 29 days of swimming at 5 mph -- brutal! Better be in good shape!

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