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Google Sydney is Across the Street from the Shelbourne Hotel, Right?
February 8, 2007 at 9:20 AM | 0 Comments
Google Sydney is conveniently located across the street from the Shelbourne Hotel. So if Google folk wanted to say, hit up the $5 menu at Shelly's for lunch, it would be super simple. In true Sydney business lunch style, Shelly's offers patrons a 300-gram scotch fillet or chicken breast with creamy mash for $5...as long as they order a drink.
Hey, said Googler could even Gmail all his or her Google friends and send them Google Map directions to Shelly's. Not so fast, according to Google's mapping service getting from 200 Sussex Street from 201 Sussex Street involves a 10.4 kilometere walk where you cross over the Sydney Harbour Bridge twice.
According to the Sydney Herald:
All driving directions queried from points east, south and west of Google's headquarters will suggest the same cross harbour detour - one that involves using the tunnel or the bridge, driving up to Falcon Street in Crows Nest before coming back down across the bridge.
Hopefully Google will wait to put visiting business partners up at the conveniently located Shelbourne, at least until they fix this mapping bug.
Related Stories:
· Google Sydney to Shelbourne Hotel [Google Maps]
· Send for the search party, Google gives a bum steer [Sydney Morning Herald]
