google maps brings you the poor pathfinding

Last night i was going back home a little bit drunk, so i decided to let google maps to take me there expecting that was the better path.
Today morning i checked the path again in google maps using the “by foot” option and i saw the path was easily improvable just forcing some waypoints. In result: i walked 2,7 km instead of 2,0 km.
This proves it’s not a problem of paths data in GMaps databases but an algorythmic problem.

See it in GMaps

See it in Gmaps

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1. 1. Loser!
   2. La opción google tiene menos cuestas perezosas.

   Comment by alberto — September 23, 2008 #

2. Pero no ves que el Post está en inglés, atontao.
   ¿De qué te sirvió currar en London sirviéndole hamburguesas a brian may?

   Comment by xurde — September 25, 2008 #

3. Nice Google xploit. All the algorithms have little problems and is difficult to catch these on the fly.

   Comment by Luis Ignacio — February 12, 2009 #

4. lo que no alcanzo a comprender es tu empeño en escribir en un mal inglés, cuando tu público, el que de verdad participa, es español. bueno, siempre habrá un sr. díaz del dedo que no va a perder la oportunidad de lucirse. yeah, right.

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