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Points: 15508 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13-May-2005 at 16:55
Just on this subject...
MSN used to have a bug in their online mapping system (now fixed) which if you went to http://maps.msn.com/
click on "Directions"
Start from country: Norway; City: Haugesund
End in country: Norway; City: Trondheim
Select shortest route
Click on "Get Directions"
you got this:-
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Points: 5301 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13-May-2005 at 16:57
Thats called going round the houses, Killian
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Points: 1074 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13-May-2005 at 17:17
Actually thats similar to my Routefinder prog I had before I got the AA one, it was obsessed with sending you on the motorway and would send you miles out of your way to get you on one for a junction or two.......
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Points: 5301 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 14-May-2005 at 05:18
Originally posted by rubberknees50 rubberknees50 wrote:

Actually thats similar to my Routefinder prog I had before I got the AA one, it was obsessed with sending you on the motorway and would send you miles out of your way to get you on one for a junction or two.......


It just wanted you to take the scenic route, Ian
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Points: 10053 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 14-May-2005 at 06:28
I get the scenic route if our lass is navigating..
"At the next junction we are coming to just past the so an so blah blah.."
erm.. we are AT the junction.. what now, which lane.. can't you just say left, right or straight on?
"At the next junction you will be wanting to turn.. left".. she says while pointing right.. (or vice versa)

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Points: 1212 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 14-May-2005 at 08:07
That is exactly why I read the map before I go and memorise the route! Less hassle in the long run, and you only have yourself to blame when you get lost. I always seem to get to where I was going, eventually. May not take the original route but I'll take a selection of roads that point the right way and spit me out at or near the desired location. I hate those in car navigational things, won't have one if I can at all avoid it.
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Points: 5301 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 14-May-2005 at 10:13
Originally posted by Rhys Rhys wrote:

I get the scenic route if our lass is navigating..
"At the next junction we are coming to just past the so an so blah blah.."
erm.. we are AT the junction.. what now, which lane.. can't you just say left, right or straight on?
"At the next junction you will be wanting to turn.. left".. she says while pointing right.. (or vice versa)

Oh well



erm Rhys...thats her way of telling you to...


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Points: 1074 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 14-May-2005 at 12:58

Originally posted by Rhys Rhys wrote:

I get the scenic route if our lass is navigating..
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Oh well

can't comment much or Wendy will 'give me a slap' lol, but I usually check the route out and write down the roads I want by number with 'TL or TR' notations for directions, map on back seat and my piece of paper stuck to dash, I usually get there ( yes Wendy I know I missed the M6 Coventry and went on A45 by mistake) 
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Points: 5301 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 14-May-2005 at 13:02
I prefer to go the scenic route alot of the time, unless the journey was 'business' then it was the 'get there the sooner the better' route.

When I was involved with the coaches I always printed out a route for the drivers, they quite appreciated it though not cos of the directions given but the time the journey took to do. They would then add on an hour or so for hold-ups and from that they worked out their break stops, seeing as they can't drive more than four and a half hours in one go and passengers don't like travelling more than 90 mins at a time.
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