martedì 3 giugno 2014

There's A Google Maps Easter Egg That Tells You To Travel By Dragon

The Welsh dragon will be calling at Brecon Beacons and Snowdon only .


You may have seen the occasional humorous suggestion in directions on Google Maps – like when it used to tell people to swim across the Atlantic Ocean.


You may have seen the occasional humorous suggestion in directions on Google Maps – like when it used to tell people to swim across the Atlantic Ocean.


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Or jet ski across the Pacific Ocean.


Or jet ski across the Pacific Ocean.


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And now Google has hidden a few surprises across the UK. For example, if you say you want to go from Brecon Brecons to Snowdon, it suggests you travel by dragon.


And now Google has hidden a few surprises across the UK. For example, if you say you want to go from Brecon Brecons to Snowdon, it suggests you travel by dragon.


If you can catch a friendly local dragon, it will take you just 21 minutes to complete the 122-mile journey. Or you could drive it in three hours, 30 minutes.


This is all designed to draw attention to Google Maps's new rollout of local and national transport times in its direction results.


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Somewhat slower is the Loch Ness Monster which can take you from Fort Augustus, on side of the Loch, to Urquhart Castle on the other in 28 minutes.


Somewhat slower is the Loch Ness Monster which can take you from Fort Augustus, on side of the Loch, to Urquhart Castle on the other in 28 minutes.


That's not that much quicker than driving around the loch – and there is no information on monster departure times, which is hardly convenient.


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