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Very funny.


It's rather odd how the program seems to pick arbitrary starting and finishing points for vaguely specified journeys: from the middle of nowhere to the middle of nowhere, in this case.


Also, it doesn?t seem to know how to get from Japan to Korea or Russia.

Hal - are your powers of logical computation fading? I don't think the points are arbitrary, I think they are geographically (geometrically?) central. Try - for instance - France to Spain, it also picks points which appear to be slap-bang in the middle.


Presumably it cannot do other journeys separated by sea, because the Japan to China trip is a specially implemented novelty feature... an easter egg of sorts.

Jeremy Wrote:

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> I think they are geographically (geometrically?) central.


I did think of that - it looks about right for China and Japan - but when I tried a few others, for example Great Britain to France, the journey starts near Glasgow, which didn't seem particularly central although, on second thoughts, it might be if all the tiny islands to the north are taken into account - it's a difficult one to call.


On balance, I think you may be right.

HAL9000 Wrote:

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> Jeremy Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > I think they are geographically (geometrically?)

> central.

>

> I did think of that - it looks about right for

> China and Japan - but when I tried a few others,

> for example Great Britain to France, the journey

> starts near Glasgow, which didn't seem

> particularly central although, on second thoughts,

> it might be if all the tiny islands to the north

> are taken into account - it's a difficult one to

> call.

>

> On balance, I think you may be right.


haha.


There must be a geodesy joke in there somewhere. P'raps not. :)

david_carnell Wrote:

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> Try Honalulu to Los Angeles for an even more

> extreme version.

>

> The googlemappers must be having some fun.


That's rather bizarre - why would you kayak to Seattle? Is the map playing tricks and that is actually the closest point to Hawaii?

Loz Wrote:

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> That's rather bizarre - why would you kayak to

> Seattle? Is the map playing tricks and that is

> actually the closest point to Hawaii?


Any crossing from Hawaii to mainland goes via Seattle... they obviously just added the kayaking route into their database as a fixed point-to-point crossing.

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