>check google maps route to theatre
Nov. 27th, 2011 11:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mcity>recall last winter when I was wandering around Astley Bridge in the dead of night
>carefully check route
>find one to theatre that sticks almost entirely to main roads, and doesn't make me walk down an obscure back road in freezing weather
>>it does, in fact, stick mostly to Blackburn Rd., like I mentioned in that post
>>it's basically the exact same route I took home
>Google calculates 2 minutes and roughly 0.1 miles difference from the one it gave me last winter
And kids, that's how your Uncle Jonathan learned that while Google Maps may have the best intentions, it doesn't have the best execution.
>carefully check route
>find one to theatre that sticks almost entirely to main roads, and doesn't make me walk down an obscure back road in freezing weather
>>it does, in fact, stick mostly to Blackburn Rd., like I mentioned in that post
>>it's basically the exact same route I took home
>Google calculates 2 minutes and roughly 0.1 miles difference from the one it gave me last winter
And kids, that's how your Uncle Jonathan learned that while Google Maps may have the best intentions, it doesn't have the best execution.
