[ANNOUNCE]: Hackathon Toronto Sat Apr 28

[Chris Devers]

On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, John Costello wrote:

> That might explain why Google Maps tells drivers from New York City to 
> Dublin to first go to France take the chunnel into England.  Much 
> easier than dropping onto the small roads of western Ireland.

My favorite is trying to plan routes around the Boston Harbor Islands:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&saddr=georges+island,+boston,+ma&daddr=lovell+island,+boston,+ma&layer=&sll=42.300421,-70.929794&sspn=0.100303,0.193462&ie=UTF8&z=12&ll=42.296485,-70.938377&spn=0.200618,0.386925&t=h&om=1

Note that:

    * The two islands in question are about 2000 feet apart.

    * The proposed route is 31.7 miles, in a big circle.

    * The start point is the nearest land to George's Island, but 
getting there is a swim perhaps four times farther than a straight 
line to Lovell Island would have been. 

    * The end point is a random spot in the water about 3000 feet 
north of Lovell Island, which (again) is longer & more complex than 
it would have been to just make a straight line.

Also,

   * No sane person with any care at all for their health would want to 
go for a swim anywhere in Boston Harbor.


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Chris Devers
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