[Sussex] A Quality product from Microsoft

[Mark Harrison (Groups)]

Steve Dobson wrote:

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>>Ha, ha, ha, laugh at stupid Microsoft for not realsing that Haugesund is 
>>on an island with no direct ferry connection to mainland Norway....
>>Oh, bugger, they DO realise that.
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>>But wait, you can get a ferry to another island, and get a connecting 
>>ferry to mainland Norway..... Oh, except you can't, can you?
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>>Out of interest, oh smirking one, how would you do the journey if you 
>>didn't have a helicopter?
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>The same way MapPoint does it: boat.  Only I wouldn't travel in the
>opposite direction to my desintation.
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>Steve
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There are numerous train journeys in the UK where the _fastest_ route is 
to travel AWAY from your destination on a stopping service to a larger 
station, and then catch a fast train whizzing through waving at the 
people you left on the platform :-)

Out of interest, has anyone checked the ferry timetables? As far as I 
can work out, by using internal Norwegian ferries, you actually have to 
use _three_ of them, and travel across two intervening islands.

Hopefully, however, the Norwegians have been travel planning than the 
UK, so this isn't stupid. There are numerous outlying islands in the UK, 
however, where travel to the mainland happens, say, once a week.

Out of interest, which route planner do you use? I'm looking for a FLOSS 
one, but haven't really found anything.

Mark