How route-finding software can fail in ways obvious to humans. Google Maps Fail (http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=49.249543,-122.892895&daddr=North+Rd&hl=en&geocode=%3BFRJq7wIdjM6s-A&mra=dme&mrcr=0&mrsp=0&sz=15&sll=49.244612,-122.895126&sspn=0.013756,0.038624&ie=UTF8&t=h&z=15)
Reminds me of when it told me to go through richmond, burnaby, and coquitlam to go from white rock to langley.
Fail google maps is fail XD
mmmmm, the scenic route :P
Here's one that's actually kinda cool. The Google Street View car seems to have gone past the Bellfurs house while they were having a furmeet: http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&q=13918+SE+23rd+St,+Bellevue,+WA+98005,+USA&source=embed&ll=47.589928,-122.154193&spn=0.012706,0.028539&t=h&z=15&layer=c&cbll=47.590021,-122.154193&panoid=JuBMv5o5LdtKG-0FjX2T7A&cbp=12,78.73,,0,3.36 (http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&q=13918+SE+23rd+St,+Bellevue,+WA+98005,+USA&source=embed&ll=47.589928,-122.154193&spn=0.012706,0.028539&t=h&z=15&layer=c&cbll=47.590021,-122.154193&panoid=JuBMv5o5LdtKG-0FjX2T7A&cbp=12,78.73,,0,3.36)
Here's a sad series of images.
The google mobile smokes a baby deer. You can (could) scroll frame by frame as it tumbled through the air:
http://gizmodo.com/5141974/google-maps-car-hits-a-deer-records-entire-ordeal-on-google-maps (http://gizmodo.com/5141974/google-maps-car-hits-a-deer-records-entire-ordeal-on-google-maps)
But they blurred everything out on the live maps.
If it makes you sad you can scroll backwards and the googlemobile is bringing the baby deer back to life!
Hey, it actually does have the Golden Ears Bridge... sort of. Still under construction. http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=golden+ears+bridge&sll=49.23077,-122.835302&sspn=0.01135,0.027208&ie=UTF8&ll=49.193484,-122.665272&spn=0.021315,0.054417&t=h&z=14 (http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=golden+ears+bridge&sll=49.23077,-122.835302&sspn=0.01135,0.027208&ie=UTF8&ll=49.193484,-122.665272&spn=0.021315,0.054417&t=h&z=14)
Fail indeed.
woooooooooooow =/ "kayak across the pacific ocean" ?
Not even Chuck Norris could do that :P
I believe it's been done.
Though I bleieve Google is the 'anti-christ' of organizations they do have a sense of humour
: Hadlock June 18, 2009, 12:02:56 -06:00
woooooooooooow =/ "kayak across the pacific ocean" ?
I'VE SEEN THAT TOO!
but it was on google earth when i looked for the way from my place to tokyo disneyland!
i lol'd so hard!!!
Actually this maps fail sadly isn't just something native to google maps, I have a GPS in my car that does some stupid routes, half the time it trys to take the highway as ar as it can to a rural place meaning it would actually take longer than having to go trough longer back roads after... or it trys to take you off of a highway/ parkway to make you go through crappy city traffic to get to a destination.
Route finding doesn't seem to be a strong point in current GPS and mapping technology.
This seems common to a lot of online mapping programs.
Never had a problem with any GPS I've had...one google map though had me showing as driving through a body of water... :o
Google maps for amphibious cars! ;D
Too bad my truck doesn't float very well or that would be one hell of a map. ;D
if you don't have a kayak.
get this car!
Rinspeed sQuba (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXYVkDBurCc#normal)
lol
wow.. a kayak is too much for my budget.. I would hate to know how much that thing costs... plus I can't drive... do you need a driver's license for that car? lol
i saw the streetview one where they drove by and photographed a gunpoint mugging
: Mayhem August 30, 2009, 11:48:07 -06:00
i saw the streetview one where they drove by and photographed a gunpoint mugging
saaaaayyy whaa?!
You wouldn't have happened to Remember where this Pic was Would You?
: Skitch August 30, 2009, 11:55:12 -06:00
: Mayhem August 30, 2009, 11:48:07 -06:00
i saw the streetview one where they drove by and photographed a gunpoint mugging
saaaaayyy whaa?!
You wouldn't have happened to Remember where this Pic was Would You?
http://www.collegehumor.com/picture:1816645 (http://www.collegehumor.com/picture:1816645)
oh also some good ones Fun With Google Maps StreetView (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NYAqAxptAg&feature=related#normal)
Kayak across the Pacific? At least it appears they've done away with the "swim across the Atlantic" instructions. Seeing as you need your car at both ends, do they expect you to CARRY it while swimming?!?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/30/swim_the_atlantic/ (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/30/swim_the_atlantic/)