# How to get from New York NY to Paris, France

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 10, 2007, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-get-from-new-york-ny-to-paris-france/399542 "2007-04-10T21:08:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-get-from-new-york-ny-to-paris-france/399542/21 "2007-04-11T16:10:04Z")

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It provides a crazy journey like that, but it can’t work out how to drive “from Hong Kong, China, to Kowloon, China” (which basically just involves driving through a short tunnel). I discovered this when checking if you could drive from New York to Hong Kong. Apparently, driving in Asia is beyond Google Maps’ capabilities.

(And it’s not just China that’s a problem:

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> We could not calculate driving directions between Ōsaka, Japan and Tokyo, Japan.

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**Author:** ![Madd\_Maxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Madd\_Maxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madd_Maxx)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-get-from-new-york-ny-to-paris-france/399542/22 "2007-04-11T16:37:08Z")

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When I type in my zip code as a starting point in Google maps it gives the local mall parking lot as the starting point.

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