Google Maps - Directions from New York to London

Google Maps is a website that you can use to get maps and satellite imagery of anywhere in the world, one of the main features includes giving you step-by-step directions from A to B.

I’ve seen this in a few places on the Internet so far, but thought it was worthy of mention here in case you hadn’t seen it yet.

Normally you get some pretty accurate directions from using this Google product, however if you follow the steps below, you’ll see it would appear that someone at Google who has a sense of humour is checking you’re paying attention!

Go to www.google.com
Click on “Maps”
Click on “Get Directions” link
Type “New York” in the “Start address” box
Type “London” in the “End Address” box
Click on “Get Directions” button
Scroll down to step #24

Best pack your swimwear in case you need to do some swimming at any point on your trip from New Yorks to London!

Google Maps New York to London Directions

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Written by Zath on April 22, 2007 · Filed under Funnies
Tags: directions, Funnies, google, google maps, london, mapping, new york

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6 Responses to “Google Maps - Directions from New York to London”

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lyndonmaxewell on April 23rd, 2007 7:44 am

My guess is that they purposely did this to inject some fun into their site.
Zath on April 23rd, 2007 12:58 pm

I’m guessing that’s the case lyndonmaxewell, also I wonder if it was done for viral marketing - it’s certainly got a lot of attention around the Internet for Google Maps and hasn’t been changed yet.
Mr.Byte on April 24th, 2007 11:20 am

But in most cases (within the land), it shows pretty good calculations…I quite often use them…
Zath on April 24th, 2007 10:53 pm

I find the directions on Google Maps are good, I just wish the time durations were a bit more accurate - I often find a 1hr journey will typically be estimated at more than 1.5hrs.

Other than that, I find Google Maps (and Earth) to work really well.
Garry Conn on May 19th, 2007 6:22 pm

I used to use MapQuest back in the day. But Google Maps are so much better.