Posted on 02/21/2024 7:11:56 AM PST by george76
I remember we took some dirt roads in NC, that were on the maps.
Dirt roads. There’s maintained dirt roads, and then there’s find out when you get there. Gullies, big rocks, crumbling edges, loose gravel slopes. The map didn’t make the distinction, but I learned it matters.
I remember the case some years ago where a family was following a navigation app in SW Oregon in the winter. They got stuck in snow; the wife and children stayed with the car and were rescued after several days, but the husband tried to walk out and died. I don’t know if they were using Google Maps or some other app.
Google Maps is wrong about the road we live on. I would never trust it in a remote area.
You posted while I was typing. I know the road they got stuck on and I wouldn’t try it in midwinter even with 4WD.
Google Maps loses town, outback mayor loses patience with wayward navigation app.. If you are driving in parts of outback Queensland, it is probably best not to listen to the authoritative voice on Google Maps, warn the mayors of several Australian towns.
The western Queensland mayors and tourism officials are so “disappointed” by the inaccuracy of Google Maps in parts of the region, they are urging locals and tourists alike not to trust the web-based technology.
They are advising tourists to use their common sense instead.
“If you see a signpost saying a town is ‘this way’ and Google Maps is telling you something different, do not trust Google Maps,” said Quilpie Shire Council Mayor Stuart Mackenzie.
But so much better than those antiquated paper maps.
I see no road where they got stuck. Why would they camp for a week before deciding to walk to safety? Other than don't trust G-Maps, their story makes no sense. i don't trust any mapping devices. Once it said I was driving 10 thousand miles per hour. Driving home from work always shows me in the middle of the river miles away. Your destination is usually on the other side of the road or a case of you can't get there from here.
Sadly, even paper maps can run you into trouble but nowhere near as much trouble as g-maps.
Back when we only had paper maps, we were traveling across New Mexico and it showed a highway between two major cities. It neglected to say their highways weren’t paved, were one vehicle wide and one side is a sheer cliff for miles and miles and hours and hours. Oh, and there was was a homemade sign saying, “hole in bridge”. The folks looked like, well, I started humming Dueling Banjos and hubs still hasn’t forgiven me.
I know it wasn’t funny at the time, but I laughed reading your description of the road .... that road was horrible, before the ‘hole in the bridge’ sign!
Google Maps recently changed and put an address on my standalone garage. I kept getting blink camera notifications of people walking into my side yard. It seems they were trying to deliver packages to the new address, which belonged to a house on a lot beyond us. This is in an established neighborhood... our house was built in 1930 and the other house has been there since the early 1990s.
Cape York is NOT a place to go without a trusted guide and armed.
Saltys everywhere and way out in the middle of nowhere.
Pretty but dangerous from wildlife.
Paper maps....
I have great fun with my nephews showing how to use a map and compass.
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