Well, just outside of town here, my Tom Tom Navigator 5.0 software on the pocket pc tells me to take a sharp right in 80 yards. If I do that I drive into a mountain. The thing is that the road was under construction when the GPS van went through and there was a detour from one side of of the road to the other at that time that is long since gone. The road goes through a cut at that point so the software is asking me to drive through solid rock.
I run into that a lot. The electronic maps are always five or more years out of date. That is the difference between the two routes Cotty was seeing to GFM from DC, the map software thinks 421 is still under construction while it has been complete for the past 3-4 years. Take out the 30 miles of slow old road and detours and the lowland route is almost exactly the same time and distance as the mountain route. Boone changed the center of their address grid 10+ years back, none of the electronic maps, and I have 4 different ones, show that change; hence it is impossible to find a location by address here. -graywolf Paul Sorenson wrote: > I guess nothing takes the place of common sense and awareness. ;>] > > -P > > Norm Baugher wrote: >> A few years back when I was living in Germany, some guy in his Mercedes >> drove into the river, the Sat Nav didn't show that the bridge was out >> due to construction.... >> Norm >> >> Bob W wrote: >>> Sat Nav over here is notorious for leading people up one way streets, >>> across people's back gardens and through shops. I had a good argument >>> a couple of years ago with some cretin who was putting too much trust >>> in his sat nav and trying to drive down my street, which has a locked >>> barrier at one end. He seemed to think that because his sat nav didn't >>> show the barrier, he had a right to try and force it open to drive >>> through. Cretin. >>> >>> >>> >> > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
