XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: gossg@gossg.org   
      
   "John F. Eldredge"  wrote:   
      
   >Several years back, something got royally screwed up in the Google Maps   
   >database.  If I recall correctly, going from one particular town to   
   >another in Scotland showed, correctly, a land trip of about 20 miles.   
   >Going in the reverse direction showed a trip of several hundred miles,   
   >passing through three different countries and involving two trips across   
   >the North Sea.   
      
   I forget whether it was Google Maps, or some predecessor mapping   
   internet program, but I was once told to turn left from one car ferry   
   onto another near Nanaimo.   
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