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Subject: Re: Google directions to Japan
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 10:23:47 -0800
From: Kathy Stroud <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>
Try Osaka to Shanghai, and look at how you get across the East China Sea.
Kathy Stroud
David and Nancy Petrone Map/GIS Librarian
Knight Library
1299 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1299
541-346-3051
On 2/3/2011 9:41 AM, Angie Cope wrote:
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> Subject: Re: Google directions to Japan
> Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 10:07:46 -0700
> From: Tami Morse McGill <[log in to unmask]>
> To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
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> I tried getting directions for several Pacific islands (Tahiti springs
> to mind, as I watch the snow fall outside my office -- but hey, we have
> a _positive_ temp today, so why am I complaining?). I even tried just
> the first leg of the Japan trip, from "USA" to "Hilo, HI". Every other
> trip I tried got the message, "We could not calculate directions between
> *United States* and [destination]." So, yes, I think someone at Google
> is having a little fun.
>
>
> --
> Tami Morse McGill
> Catalog Librarian
> University of Wyoming Libraries
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> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Angie Cope <[log in to unmask]
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: RE: Google directions to Japan
> Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 10:48:32 -0500
> From: Grabach, Kenneth A. Mr. <[log in to unmask]
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> To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
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> This went around Facebook the other day. I found myself wondering if
> someone at Google wasn't having some fun, rather than it being a
> legitimate goof (or fail as they say nowadays)
>
> Ken Grabach <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
> Maps Librarian Phone:
> <tel:+15135291726>513-529-1726 <tel:+15135291726>
> Miami University Libraries
> Oxford, Ohio 45056 USA
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
> [mailto:[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>] On
> Behalf Of Angie Cope
> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 10:46 AM
> To: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Google directions to Japan
>
> I'm too tired from snow shoveling to post anything serious today. Hope
> you all don't mind ...
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: No link for this, just a series of instructions:
> Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 09:05:11 -0600
>
>
> Go to Google Maps
>
> Click "Get Directions"
>
> Enter USA as the start, Japan as the end.
>
> Scroll down the instructions to 31 and 46.
>
> Enjoy!
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