After spending a week driving around the Phoenix metropolitan area, had you asked me several days ago, I would have said that ‘Google is my best friend!’. Now, I’m not so sure…
When you’re in America, Google really is all powerful. For example, I searched for the name of a restaurant that I went to 6 months ago, because I wanted to bring some work colleagues along. Below you can see the results – in a lovely expandable section it gives me the address of the restaurant, phone number, a location map and a link to click to get directions.
These kind of results are perfect whether you live locally or are a visitor to the area, it makes life so much easier.
In comparison however, I’m back at home this week and needed to get directions to a wedding cake maker in Clonsilla (I’m in Lucan) so I can pop over for a tasting. Click on the image below to display it fully – notice anything wrong with that picture???
Google does have a bizarre way of describing U-turns.
Rather than just saying “do a U-ey at the next junction” it comes out with all this “off-ramp, veer right, turn left, veer left, on-ramp” crap. And that’s just in Bandon
Posted on February 14, 2007 at 3:00 pm.
Google Maps confuse me… or does Ireland confuse me. I haven’t quite grasped how to find places around ireland with google.
Posted on February 27, 2007 at 11:50 pm.