{"id":3679,"date":"2010-02-16T13:12:53","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T18:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=3679"},"modified":"2010-02-16T13:24:01","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T18:24:01","slug":"in-which-she-comes-to-doubt-the-reliability-of-google-maps-suggested-routes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2010\/02\/16\/in-which-she-comes-to-doubt-the-reliability-of-google-maps-suggested-routes\/","title":{"rendered":"In which she comes to doubt the reliability of Google Map&#8217;s suggested routes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">I<\/span> was playing with Google Maps, trying to show the boys the distance from Los Angeles to Hawaii.  It found LA with no problem, and I asked it for directions to Honolulu, Hawaii.  <\/p>\n<p>I was perplexed to see it suggested driving up the western coast of the United States, but absolutely tickled when I realized<a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.ca\/maps?f=d&#038;source=s_d&#038;saddr=los+angeles,+california&#038;daddr=108th+St+SW%2FWildaire+Rd+SW+to:honolulu,+hawaii&#038;geocode=FYqYBwIdm77z-CkT2ifcXcfCgDH0CEYlb98v4g%3BFf2bzwIdDoCy-A%3BFUAeRQEd40WX9ilNRsOMOxgAfDFsl6fzX_UoSw&#038;hl=en&#038;mra=dpe&#038;via=1&#038;sll=38.548165,-139.042969&#038;sspn=30.976154,56.513672&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;ll=31.653381,-132.363281&#038;spn=65.219944,113.027344&#038;z=3\"> it was suggesting<\/a> I take to the water in Seattle and kayak up through Puget Sound all the way to Hawaii.  <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/maps.google.ca\/maps?f=d&amp;source=s_d&amp;saddr=los+angeles,+california&amp;daddr=108th+St+SW%2FWildaire+Rd+SW+to:honolulu,+hawaii&amp;geocode=FYqYBwIdm77z-CkT2ifcXcfCgDH0CEYlb98v4g%3BFf2bzwIdDoCy-A%3BFUAeRQEd40WX9ilNRsOMOxgAfDFsl6fzX_UoSw&amp;hl=en&amp;mra=dpe&amp;via=1&amp;sll=38.548165,-139.042969&amp;sspn=30.976154,56.513672&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=31.653381,-132.363281&amp;spn=65.219944,113.027344&amp;t=h&amp;output=embed\"><\/iframe><br \/><small><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.ca\/maps?f=d&amp;source=embed&amp;saddr=los+angeles,+california&amp;daddr=108th+St+SW%2FWildaire+Rd+SW+to:honolulu,+hawaii&amp;geocode=FYqYBwIdm77z-CkT2ifcXcfCgDH0CEYlb98v4g%3BFf2bzwIdDoCy-A%3BFUAeRQEd40WX9ilNRsOMOxgAfDFsl6fzX_UoSw&amp;hl=en&amp;mra=dpe&amp;via=1&amp;sll=38.548165,-139.042969&amp;sspn=30.976154,56.513672&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=31.653381,-132.363281&amp;spn=65.219944,113.027344&amp;t=h\" style=\"color:#0000FF;text-align:left\">View Larger Map<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p>This begs more than a few questions, including why one couldn&#8217;t shave a good week or so off the trip and just start kayaking in, say, the Port of Los Angeles, let alone why Google Maps defaults to kayaking as the suggested mode to traversing the Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>It made me smile, though, so that&#8217;s why I wanted to share it with you!  Have you come across any other quirks in Google Maps?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was playing with Google Maps, trying to show the boys the distance from Los Angeles to Hawaii. It found LA with no problem, and I asked it for directions to Honolulu, Hawaii. I was perplexed to see it suggested driving up the western coast of the United States, but absolutely tickled when I realized &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2010\/02\/16\/in-which-she-comes-to-doubt-the-reliability-of-google-maps-suggested-routes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In which she comes to doubt the reliability of Google Map&#8217;s suggested routes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-i-love-the-interwebs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3679"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3690,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3679\/revisions\/3690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}