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May 5, 2008
Don't Stop On The Freeway
Google Maps' directions from the Wild Palms hotel to Mozilla end like a Neal Stephenson novel.
Is Google trying to kill us?
Posted by roc at May 5, 2008 1:57 PM
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They're killing off the Mozilla developers before they announce the rumoured Firefox-fork Google Browser, so they have no competition :-)
Posted by: Mike at May 5, 2008 3:11 PM
I had that "issue" of ending up in the middle of 101 as well, so I always resorted to typing in "Charleston Road Mountain View" instead of "1981 Landings Drive Mountain View" whenever I head to or from the office.
Little nit, I know. (o.0)
Posted by: Gary Kwong at May 5, 2008 3:33 PM
The way this displays in your blog, with columns and all, at first made me think this was some esoteric form of post-modernist poetry. :-P
Posted by: Jeff Walden at May 5, 2008 3:50 PM
Yeah, this came up recently in the office. We realized that the fact that we're about 50 yards from the freeway seems to confuse Google Maps.
Posted by: Al Billings at May 5, 2008 4:05 PM
I would take that as a bad omen. Maybe just take the bus today? ;-)
Posted by: Håkan W at May 5, 2008 9:10 PM
I had to laugh at this as well when I went there recently - moving the Second point right to the actual building (to the right) helps to find out the real route. Of course, everything looks different on the ground when you come there - just like everywhere else ;-)
Posted by: Robert Kaiser at May 6, 2008 12:18 AM
It's because Google lets people edit the markers if they're wrong and someone edited it. It used to end on Landings Drive in front of the complex.
Posted by: Dave Miller at May 6, 2008 6:03 AM