Google Maps: Swim across the Atlantic Ocean
March 29, 2007 by Rich Owings
Google may want to take over the world, but they’ve got a ways to go before they’re ready to produce a navigation device. Check out a Google Maps route from Boston to London. Step 9 says "swim across the Atlantic Ocean."
If people will follow their GPS receiver’s directions into a river, are they dumb enough to drive their car into the ocean? No, it says swim, so they would park first and then jump in, right?
Via Google Earth Blog.
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Clearly they do have a “ways to go before they’re ready to produce a navigation device”, and this isn’t some kind of elaborate joke on their part. Someone somewhere instructed it that swimming was an option.
Can’t you recognize a good joke?
That’s bad for you man.
Of course it’s a joke!!
It only seems to work between US/Canada and Europe. And the swim portion always takes place between Boston and Le Havre, France. Check it out. E.g., Orlando to Lisbon, Portugal.
This is kind of fun. The longest “leg” I’ve been able to construct is between “Unalaska, Alaska” and “Moscow”. 11000+ miles and 35+ days (29 days for the swim.)
What’s next? How about “Everglades” to “Sea of Tranquility”
Of course it’s a joke!!
It only seems to work between US/Canada and Europe. And the swim portion always takes place between Boston and Le Havre, France. Check it out. E.g., Orlando to Lisbon, Portugal.
This is kind of fun. The longest “leg” I’ve been able to construct is between “Unalaska, Alaska” and “Moscow”. 11000+ miles and 35+ days (29 days for the swim.)
What’s next? How about “Everglades” to “Sea of Tranquility”
Of course it’s a joke!!
It only seems to work between US/Canada and Europe. And the swim portion always takes place between Boston and Le Havre, France. Check it out. E.g., Orlando to Lisbon, Portugal.
This is kind of fun. The longest “leg” I’ve been able to construct is between “Unalaska, Alaska” and “Moscow”. 11000+ miles and 35+ days (29 days for the swim.)
What’s next? How about “Everglades” to “Sea of Tranquility”
well you may well laugh. i was just putting my swimming cozzie on.
Going from Prudhoe Bay, AK to Novokuzneck, Russia is 12,618 miles
This is for just the swim..Long Wharf, Boston, MA to Le Havre, France
and for the longest journey, Unalaska, AK to Novokuzneck, Russia..
Unalaska, AK to Novokuzneck, Russia is far from the longest. See wikipedia for the longest distance, which is 15289 miles from Zabaykalsk to Unalaska
Zabaykalsk doesn’t map in Google maps. But “Unalaska, Alaska” to “Kosh-Agach, Russia” gives 13,696 mi (about 38 days 1 hour), for a new record. The URL for the name in this post goes to that map.
Surely the intrepid coder at Google who added this nifty feature could have researched how long it takes to swim the Atlantic ocean and put the correct time, 72 days. But that was from was Cape Cod…
http://www.didyouknow.cd/aroundtheworld/swimming.htm
It doesn’t work anymore
It doesn’t work anymore!?!? Then how am I going to get directions from my home to France?