Quote:" Maybe we should cut these cartographers a little slack. When you consider that Garmin will sell you a map update of the entire northern hemisphere for eighty bucks, we perhaps shouldn't get too wadded up if they miss the exact location of my little bungalow by a couple of hundred feet. After all, we're not talking about GPS error here, but address designation. And there are quite a few little bungalows in all of North America...
Bill" You and I look at that a little differently. If I pay $80 for a map, I want the part that concerns me to be correct. I could care less about the rest of the US, I want my little neighborhood to be right. Sorry, no slack cutting here. I think the problem arises because the GPS calculates the street address. There is a standard way of assigning addresses but sometimes counties deviate. My ex wife worked in that business a while and she said there are 1000 addresses per mile, or one every 5.28 feet. But, counties, who are legally correct even if they are wrong do things for their own reasons. My ex said she re addressed an entire street once because it was done by the developer and done incorrectly only to have to restore the older, incorrect addresses after the residents objected. There are a lot of rules concerning addressing but they are not always followed. If the GPS looks at the end of a road and calculates the address based on distance, I am surprised it ever gets one right. Incidentally, Google maps has my address wrong about 100 feet in the other direction. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.