Google can give interesting instructions at time. If you ask for directions from Japan to China, step 48 can get a laugh.
Leon On 7 June 2011 01:55, John Sessoms <jsessoms...@nc.rr.com> wrote: > Google maps allows you to make routes and get driving directions by marking > locations for "Directions from here" and "Directions to here". Gives > distances and turns, etc. > > BUT ... > > If you're trying to find the distance between two points on the Blue Ridge > Parkway, fageddaboutit! > > I'm trying to plot out a fall color trip. I want to drive up to the north > entrance to Shenandoah National Park's Skyline Drive and make my way all the > way down to the southern terminus of the Blue Ridge Parkway down at Great > Smokey Mountains National Park in Cherokee, NC. > > The most direct route is straight down Skyline Drive to the Blue Ridge > Parkway, but Google won't have it. Does OK for the trip up to Front Royal, > VA and for the trip back home from Cherokee, NC. > > But it just won't give me a map that goes along the parkways. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.