Someone wrote "Yep. A one-way street mapped as a two-way street is better than nothing."
To me this statement absoluetly defines the difference between people who just want to see lots of lines on the map and people who want to actually use the map for navigation. Many moons ago I was driving on the 17 mile drive, trying to get to a golf course for a round. I accidently took a wrong turn and then the pathetic Teleatlas maps tried to get me to turn up one way streets the wrong way, eight times in a row. I just turned off the unit and navigated by the sun (which is hard for us Aussies in the Northern Hemisphere). This experience (plus some others with the substandard sensis maps) convinced me that we really need up-to-date ACCURATE maps which match reality. In Canberra I think I've fixed up all the one way streets that were not so marked. When up in Queansland, I was on a left handed golf tour and on the way home the bus driver, at one of the stops, admitted he was new to the job and didn't know the way to the next hotel. Of course I was capturing gps traces at the time so I told him "just turn left into Smith street and then take the next right at the T junction. Unfortunately I was using sensis mapping and when we got to the right turn, there was a "no right turn sign". The whole bus laughed a lot at this useless computer technonoly and the bus driver in frustration just turned right anyway, nearly taking out the sign and a few pedestrians as well. There are so many other examples where "near enough is good enough" maps are just so dangerous but time does fix most things and eventually the planet will be surveyed properly and we will have usefull maps. I think 10 years may see Australia with good mapping.
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