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[email protected] · October 4th 15, 11:21 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at 19:28:16 on Sun, 4 Oct
2015, Bryan Morris remarked:
The last place I needed to find on Google Maps was a charity-run care
home, and that's completely missing too (it was built in 2005).

I once needed to check on Google Maps how to get from my place
(London/Essex borders) to London Bridge

Much to my surprise (I kid you not) the route was

Drive to Dover
Swim the English Channel to France
Swim the Atlantic to New York
Drive from New York to Lake Havasu City Arizona
London Bridge (the old one rebuilt there)

I assume some programmer at Google had a sense of humour.

There was a time when one of the mapping systems (I don't remember if
it was a web-based one or CD-based) sent people from south England to
Newcastle via France, and various other countries, ending up with a
ferry back from Scandinavia (Bergen probably).

Early versions one rail planner would send you to a small town in
Belgium if you typed in "Waterloo".

And to get from my house in central Cambridge to Cambridge station the
transportdirect.info site would send me via Newmarket.

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Colin Rosenstiel