For a giggle, have a look at Google Maps’s driving directions from New York to Dublin, Ireland. Take special note of step 23. Lord help us if this makes its way into dashboard navigation systems. Via Kottke.
Update: The MetaFilter post has other trans-oceanic combinations.
Update #2: Gadling picks it up.
Update #3: It’s in Google Earth, too.
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What’s the longest route it will calculate?
The longest I can find is Port Lion, Alaska (reached by a ferry of some kind) to Frontera, Spain (in the Canaries, reached…I’m not sure how), at 10,596 miles, or 35 days, 15 hours.