Google Maps: 'X' marks the (wrong) spot in Norway

Paul Heymont 5/7/172:00 PM

Would-be visitors to Norway's famous Preikestolen cliffs (above) are finding themselves 20 miles, and the width of a fjord, away from their destination thanks to a Google Maps error.

The popular navigation software has been directing a small, but steady, stream of tourists to the village of Fossmork, located about where the X is on the photo. At the end of the narrow road to the quiet village, they get the bad news from locals.

Just to make it worse, according to one local interviewed by the newspaper Stavager Aftenbald, is that they're in sight of their destination. “They borrow a set of binoculars and can see all the people up on Preikestolen – it’s quite funny,” he told the newspaper.

Photo: Sergey Ashmarin/Wikimedia (edited)

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