Make tracks in Europe

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You can use Google maps to plan a car journey, or (still in Beta) a walking journey. Some countries are not as well maintained as others, but you can make plans to travel through rather a few of them… I guess it depends on how close the roads data is to the towns data?

In the above map I was looking at cycling from Lisbon to Moscow (or vice versa)

  1. Lisbon to Madrid: 628
  2. Madrid to Barcelona: 619
  3. Barcelona to Marseille: 506
  4. Marseille to Genova: 398
  5. Genova to Trieste: 536 (Though I was looking at Rijeka, Croatia (further distance, but no google directions)
  6. Trieste to Vienna: 556
  7. Vienna to Warsaw: 722
  8. Warsaw to Minsk …
  9. … Moscow??

Unfortunately Google gets a little lost in the old Soviet Union it seems. Perhaps that is a US directive, as I am sure most of the software engineers in the world are Russian? Actually, I’ve never met one, what are all those Russian computer science graduates doing?

Update: I think I’ve found the perfect site to piss off my girlfriend: Crazy guy on a bike! I think it’s pretty obvious what this site is about… worth a look if you are planning an insane human powered journey.

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