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Google Maps tells you how to get from here to there - literally
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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So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...

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Daan said 9:12PM on 1-09-2008
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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Erik said 8:08AM on 1-10-2008
If you try to go from "hell" to "highwater" you get from Michigan to Ohio...
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noppadon said 8:11AM on 1-10-2008
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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Abisola said 8:11AM on 1-10-2008
Google also tells you how to get from A to Z! Amazing, eh?
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kein said 10:15AM on 1-10-2008
Yes, I use google maps for GPS navigation
And It is accurate and useful
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Fred said 1:08PM on 1-10-2008
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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Chris O'Rourke said 2:06PM on 1-10-2008
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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michael said 3:11PM on 1-12-2008
That's why I use Live Maps. Literally no problems/bugs like this. :)
http://maps.live.com/
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