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   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   In article , 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.   
      
   And there are many dibulb idiots out there who would have blindly   
   followed the directions and then stupidly wondered why they were   
   suddenly sitting in a sinking car.   
      
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