Southampton, UK to Edinburgh, UK - Google Maps

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=southampton&daddr=Edinburgh&hl=en&geocode=FYa_CAMdnpbq_ykJKRW-V4lzSDHwcdpMalqMpw%3BFWC7VQMdsFzP_ykjJpilALiHSDEnF-d8exTyZA&mra=ls&dirflg=w&sll=53.422628,-2.438965&sspn=6.916865,18.962402&ie=UTF8&ll=53.028,-0.285645&spn=6.980744,18.962402&z=6

by billpg • 16 years ago

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_0ffh• 16 years ago

Actually, that's quite impressive. Though probably not the expected result, it's surely faster than walking the whole way... =)

edd• 16 years ago

Google will often suggest ferry as a means to get somewhere when you try for a walking route. Which as you point out is faster than walking the whole way. I wish it could also take into account more public transport options though as I am sure a direct train would also be fairly fast and require less passport control.

NickPollard• 16 years ago

Plane would be quicker, my Dad used to commute (weekly) from Southampton to Edinburgh. It's about 40minutes by air.

It would great to have something compute the 'fastest possible travel' from A to B, including as many types of travel as possible. That way you could compare train/ferry/plane/car/etc. for long journeys and optimize accordingly.

tommorris• 16 years ago

The alternative route where you walk across England to Birkenhead and then take the ferry to Belfast is also pretty awesome. Four and a half days! Thank you, Google Maps Chaucer Edition.

I know the train is expensive, but it may be worth it to get to Edinburgh in seven hours rather than 3-4 days...

RiderOfGiraffes• 16 years ago

I don't actually see what's wrong with that. If you ask to walk from Southampton to Edinburgh it's going to give you the fastest route. Obviously it includes the possibility of ferries, and so it's found the fastest route is via France, Dover and Belgium.

dalore• 16 years ago

I like the alternative routes that take you through Belfast to get to Edinburgh.

AndrewHampton• 16 years ago

That's exactly what I thought. It does look like a counter-intuitive route on the map though.

jvdh• 16 years ago

If you're going to allow ferries, why not include trains? That's obviously much faster and more direct.

obeattie• 16 years ago

I imagine it would if Google Maps had National Rail data for the UK

srgseg• 16 years ago

This really can't be right though...

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=sou...

robinduckett2• 16 years ago

I would downvote you if I could, because you added a destination in ireland for a walking route from southhampton.

danparsonson• 16 years ago

Indeed - who'd have thought that attempting to answer a silly question would result in a silly answer?

arethuza• 16 years ago

I like that the fact that once the ferry arrives at Rosyth it sends you up the Forth and over the Kincardine Bridge rather than over the Forth Road bridge that you would have just sailed under.

bmunro• 16 years ago

Google's directions from Sydney to Hobart take you to Hobart, IN, USA via Japan and ask you to "Kayak across the Pacific Ocean", twice.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&...

francoisdevlin• 16 years ago

Three times, actually. It counts Australia to Japan as Kayaking the Pacific.

kez• 16 years ago

To quote directly from the above link:

"Walking directions are in beta."

clawrencewenham• 16 years ago

The directions take you to Boundstone Ln in Lancing. I went to school at Boundstone Community College on that street (actually just a High School with some extra-cred classes). I'd walk the whole length of it twice a day because I lived on Leconfield Road just off the southern hairpin, just after you get on Sompting road.

So I've walked/cycled a fraction of that route at least a few hundred times.

edw519• 16 years ago

Slightly off-topic, but not really...

This reminds me of a customer of mine who needed to rent 3 passenger vans to move 20 of his people between the airport, hotel, and office for a project in another city.

It cost $10 per day to equip each van with a GPS, but he didn't know how many days he would need. Or he could just buy a GPS at Office Depot for $90, put in into the lead van, and have the other 2 vans follow. Or just buy 3 GPS's in case the vans didn't travel together. Their PHB asked me which made more sense.

I told him to print google directions between the 3 locations and give them to everyone. Free.

That would have required planning ahead. Instead, they bought the GPS's. I don't work there anymore.

frazerb• 16 years ago

Love it. Also worth trying Southampton to Swansea :)

Southampton, UK to Edinburgh, UK - Google Maps

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