More fun with Google Maps

[wilco64256]

Well this is fascinating - head over to Google Maps and ask for some directions.  Set it to "walking" mode, then in Point A just put "The Shire" (no quotes) and in Point B put "Mordor."

Fascinating.

[tessspoon]

Ha!

[Deloria]

I can't get it to work. It gives me actual directions.

[LadyTerra]

I believe it's the caution message above the directions.

[wilco64256]

Yeah it'll still try to generate directions for some actual places but there'll be a little highlighted warning above the directions themselves.  That's the cool part.

[snabbott]

There's also this in the walking directions from China to Japan:

Jet ski across the Pacific Ocean

[crayauchtin]

If you reverse the Shire/Mordor directions (which for some reason happened to me?) the directions warn you that it may be missing sidewalks. I know it's not actually a joke, but I still thought it was funny....