Comments on: A Place Between Us.

By: Aeris

Aeris — Thu, 17 May 2007 09:57:07 +0000

Uh. I live in Germany, my friends live all in the UK, and i cant get any results "due to legal or contractual reasons"...

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 17 May 2007 02:00:53 +0000

Try starting out in NYC with a friend in Paris, France.

Apparently we should meet for coffee in the middle of the Atlantic.

Similarly, friends in Miami and Houston can meet somewhere in the Gulf of Mexico.

By: Aron

Aron — Wed, 16 May 2007 22:29:49 +0000

@Rebecca: The "theater" issue appears to be a problem with the results returned for some Google searches. We found a similar problem with "diner" queries. In that case, the search always came back with a Swansea, UK location!

Maybe Google is trying to make us take vacations.

If you run into any other problems like this, please let us know via the feedback link on http://a.placebetween.us/

Aron

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 16 May 2007 14:46:44 +0000

Gaithersburg has few places I would consider for meeting someone after having driven 6+ hours unless the search criteria included only chain restaurants. Besides, Gaithersburg is much closer to NY than Charleston. When I searched those cities all the results were south of Richmond.

By: Ruby on Rails guy

Ruby on Rails guy — Wed, 16 May 2007 14:13:20 +0000

coool

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Wed, 16 May 2007 13:56:32 +0000

This is cool! It's a little buggy, though. I searched for a theater between Boston, MA and Philadelphia, PA, and it's #1 suggestion was "Theater, Augst, Switzerland." As we've come to expect from Google maps, it suggested that we swim across the Atlantic Ocean to get there. Fun times!

By: b

Wed, 16 May 2007 13:37:10 +0000

eHarmony should buy this up

By: Sid Morrison

Sid Morrison — Wed, 16 May 2007 12:56:31 +0000

This is sweet. I wound up buying some wheels for my Saab from some guy on a Saab forum (hours away) and we had to guess at a shopping plaza to meet at partway. This would have been a nice help.