Fun with Online Mapping

So tomorrow we're going for National Trails Day to Bluejay Point Park to do some trail maintenance (and get free t-shirts). Go REI.

The thing is, we were looking for directions on their website, and we finally found a link to mapquest directions. Well, I'm partial to GoogleMaps, so I went to put the directions there instead. Being a conscientious/OCD person, I also wanted to include the given latitude/longitude coordinates, just in case they were more exact or were for a slightly different meeting point.

So, I went and wrote in the following:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=3200+Pleasant+Union+Church+Road+Raleigh,+NC+27614&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=68.229439,108.984375&ie=UTF8&ll=35.96639,078.6469&spn=0.139457,0.21286&z=12&iwloc=addr

Imagine my surprise when nothing showed up! I thought to myself, "maybe if I zoom out, something will show up." So I did -- still nothing. Okay, maybe a little more zoom...still nothing. Keep it coming then -- wait, what? "Jammu and Kashmir"? Where are we going tomorrow? After a little more zooming, I find out I'm looking at the map of Pakistan.

Further scrutiny of the full link revealed that I accidentally deleted a very important minus sign on the longitude coordinate...

When I showed Limor, she said "We are NOT going that far tomorrow!"