Always trust your mapping package

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Sun 23 Jan 2005 14:38
Always trust your mapping package - Badger
With acknowledgemnets to Pocket GPS World, have a look at the latest Microsoft route planning technology:-

Go to tinyurl.com/4dcn5 and enter the following:

Start: Norway, city Haugesund
End: Norway, city Trondheim

Then press "Get Directions" and lean back for a nice chuckle... NAVTEQ maps, by the way.
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Sun 23 Jan 2005 14:52
Always trust your mapping package - Altea Ego
Autoroute (V2001? I think) once told me the fastest way from Lymington in the New Forest was to drive onto a car ferry to the Isle of Wight and get another one off to Portsmouth.
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Sun 23 Jan 2005 14:55
Always trust your mapping package - Badger
Autoroute 2003 tells me that to to get from Ouistreham ferry port in Normandy to anywhere else in France I have first to get the ferry to Portsmouth and back again. Makes yer wonder about sat nav, dunnit?
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Sun 23 Jan 2005 14:56
Always trust your mapping package - Pugugly {P}
Quite clearly off its trolley !
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Sun 23 Jan 2005 15:01
Always trust your mapping package - keo-the-dog
hmmmm it even says it's the quickest route. maybe there's roadworks on the other route...cheers...keo
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Sun 23 Jan 2005 15:05
Always trust your mapping package - Badger
Or the Norwegian one-way system?
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Sun 23 Jan 2005 15:22
Always trust your mapping package - mfarrow
In the address bar:

change "RouteType=Quickest"
to "RouteType=Shortest"

and it still takes you on a return ferry crossing to Newcastle Upon Tyne!
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Sun 23 Jan 2005 15:36
Always trust your mapping package - Badger
What's the problem -- it is shorter.
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Sun 23 Jan 2005 15:47
Always trust your mapping package - mfarrow
The most obvious flaw in this program is that it fails to take ferry crossings into accounts when it's calculating distance. A flaw I hope you can disable (i.e. "Don't go by Ferry" option) in AutoRoute.

Or should there be a "cheapest route" option?
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