Ever wonder how long it takes to get from here to there? About 7 hours and 51 minutes according to Google Maps. It turns out both here and there are in France. If you're still confused, there are two cities in France with the convenient names of
Héré and Théré. So if you type "here" and "there" into the directions fields of Google Maps, what you get are directions from one spot to the other.This is not, by far, the oddest thing we've seen on Google Maps. For example, last year if you looked for directions from a US location to destination in Europe, Google would tell you to "
Swim across the Atlantic." The company seems to have removed that suggestion, possibly after someone at Google pointed out that it would be faster to get use a hot air balloon.
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1-09-2008 @ 9:12PM
Daan said...
Optionally, if you are Dutch and want to go from "hier" to "daar" you would start in Austria and end up in the UK :)
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1-10-2008 @ 8:08AM
Erik said...
If you try to go from "hell" to "highwater" you get from Michigan to Ohio...
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1-10-2008 @ 8:11AM
noppadon said...
Can someone tell me how to display Googlemap Japan in English? Now the map and interface are in Japanese. So I cannot really use it unless I can read it. At least they should display location name in English, so I can use this new feature of Googlemap.
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1-10-2008 @ 8:11AM
Abisola said...
Google also tells you how to get from A to Z! Amazing, eh?
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1-10-2008 @ 10:15AM
kein said...
Yes, I use google maps for GPS navigation
And It is accurate and useful
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1-10-2008 @ 1:08PM
Fred said...
You can also use Google Maps to find your way from Poverty to Easy Street. I played around with it until it got boring (which is, by the way a city in Oregon):
http://ochsenhirt.org/2008/01/10/the-road-to-easy-street-is-ky-256/
You could also fill in your own joke using Lancaster County, PA:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&saddr=blue+ball,+pa&daddr=paradise,+pa&sll=40.025255,-76.12216&sspn=0.037924,0.077591&ie=UTF8&z=12&om=1
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1-10-2008 @ 2:06PM
Chris O'Rourke said...
I enjoyed this one:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&saddr=Fucking,+5121+Ostermiething,+Braunau+am+Inn,+Upper+Austria,+Austria&daddr=Hell,+Stj%C3%B8rdal,+Nord-Tr%C3%B8ndelag,+Norway&sll=46.027482,6.416016&sspn=10.693989,16.896973&ie=UTF8&cd=2&z=5&om=1 (NSFW due to the F-bomb) but nice to know how to get from f**king to hell in a short 1 day 2 hour drive.
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1-12-2008 @ 3:11PM
michael said...
That's why I use Live Maps. Literally no problems/bugs like this. :)
http://maps.live.com/
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