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scott wrote:
> But still I find it amazing how I can be in the middle of nowhere in
> southern Germany, and then just type in my mum's address 1200 km away
> and in under a minute it tells me exactly which roads to go on to get
> there and exactly how many km it is. Surely just knowing every single
> street name in Europe is quite a lot of data, let alone the routing
> information plus the road geometry information.
It *is* pretty mental, eh?
Mind you, I saw a guy with an illegal 186 laptop (you know, the ones
with the blue and purple LCD screens?) that could compute routes around
the UK given only a few seconds or so. And that was back in 1989. I
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