Tech-Me – Blogging my thoughts on gadgets, techology and web based media – chapmanmania

I just got dried off, you see I wanted to get to Paris from a recent trip to New York so checked out the ever-so wonderful Google Maps Directions. All was pretty normal until I got to Long Wharf where I was told to swim across the Atlantic. Of course, the maps must be telling me the best way there right? So I didn’t bother taking off my clothes or packing a towel (the maps didn’t tell me too) and became frightfully tired and cold part way across. But I made it, and now I’m posting this from a cyber cafe somewhere in the middle of gay Paris with a wine swilling French man glaring across at me; least he told me he was a French tourist advisor – so he must be, right? I think next time I might try Windows Live Maps.
Of course it’s not a flaw. Google is famous for their “jokes”, is planting them in Google Maps taking it one step too far? Well I don’t think so. I think there might be a lesson to be learnt here for all those “but the sat-nav told me too” types. Wanna try it for yourself? Go to Google Maps, hit directions, from New York, to Paris, skip to step 23. Have fun!