XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: dtravel@sonic.net   
      
   On 1/21/2014 7:46 PM, Greg Goss wrote:   
   > "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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