rex

Quality Mapping of the Day

1. Go to http://mappoint.msn.com/DirectionsFind.aspx

2. In the Start section, select "Norway" from the listbox and enter "
Haugesund" into the "City" field

3. In the End section, select "Norway" from the listbox and enter "
Trondheim" into the "City" field

4. Click on "Get Directions" ...

5. Laugh, Snicker (Delete as appropriate)

6. Back up. Try "shortest". Try "reverse".

You'll be ROFLYAO.

Best wishes,

Rex

Jocelyn_P

Unbelievable!

Rex, you have way too much free time!

TexasAggie

LOL!
How on EARTH did you come across this particularly efficient route?

rex

As I said, this was e-mailed to me, by someone on e-scrabble.com

I'll have to ask if the origins are known.

kybourbon

Must be the scenic route.

Robespierre

http://www.fodors.com/forums/threads...p;tid=34556169

rex

I agree, R, there must be some similar faulty info that causes this glitch, and the oddities described in the post you cite.

Marilyn

Maybe the road from Haugesund to Trondheim is all one-way in the wrong direction.

Patrick

Rex, you missed it by a couple days. Someone posted that link here earlier this week with a title about "all Norway roads one way leading south" or some such thing. There were a couple posts to it as well.

Robespierre

Patrick: How ironic. You're pointing out to Rex that he missed it, when three posts before yours, I linked to it.

Tallulah

I think that it makes it pretty clear (whenever it was posted!) that wherever you are going, you really MUST visit London on the way!

rex

Even after R posted this thread URL (which I had seen when it was first posted), I had never clicked on the snopes.com link - - and I didn't realize until just now that it displays the map of what I re-posted here (e-mailed to me yesterday, without crediting the snopes.com source - - if it even IS the "original" source!)

Patrick

Well, robespierre, I think it's equally "ironic" that you posted a link without explaining what it was. I was merely explaining that someone else had posted the information, rather than blindly posting a link without any explanation of what it was.
No problem.

Robespierre

Mea culpa.

I thought it would be fairly easy for anyone to click the link for an explanation, but I guess I misjudged the laziness of (at least some) Fodorites.