Road To Nowhere
Last night, while idly dicking about with Google Earth, I put a start point of my parents house in North Dublin (which isn't actually on the map) and an end point of my house in South Dublin into the "Get Directions" area, just to see what it would come up with. While nothing as ridiculous as "swim across the Atlantic" came up, it did come up with a rather more convoluted route than I would have. And then I saw something funny.
See, in the past two years, the Fingal council has built a lovely, motorway-standard dual carriageway out that way. The directions given by Google Earth direct you straight to the motorway, pretty much. But on the map, half of the motorway isn't there. Google obviously did one of their famous fly-bys of part of North Dublin/East Meath recently, and are using brand-new data alongside 3-or-4 year old data. They really, really do need to get along with more of those fly-bys.
Have a look at the full-size image, it's really weird seeing a 4-lane motorway fade away and turn into a field (like a magic tractor). You can also see clearly the blue line which accompanies the directions, which seems to be telling me to drive through that same field, and then along the miraculously-appearing motorway.
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