Comments on: Google Giving the Wrong Information for Hervey Bay http://www.herveybaygossip.com/2007/06/23/google-giving-the-wrong-information-for-hervey-bay/ All the local Hervey Bay news without the sticky fingers Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:30:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Stuart http://www.herveybaygossip.com/2007/06/23/google-giving-the-wrong-information-for-hervey-bay/#comment-4057 Stuart Sat, 23 Jun 2007 23:35:14 +0000 http://www.herveybaygossip.com/2007/06/23/google-giving-the-wrong-information-for-hervey-bay/#comment-4057 Thanks for adding your comment Nigel. Last year in the northern hemisphere's autumn there was a report of a family of three who got stuck travelling on some back roads on the west coast of the United States. They were using a mapping programme that showed that the road they were following as being quite a main road. In actual fact the 'main' road was something of a bush track and impassable after heavy rain. Ordinary paper maps and GPS maps showed that but not the mapping programme they were using. They got stuck for over a week and by the time the authorities found them the husband had died of exposure after he had tried to go for help. Thanks for adding your comment Nigel. Last year in the northern hemisphere’s autumn there was a report of a family of three who got stuck travelling on some back roads on the west coast of the United States. They were using a mapping programme that showed that the road they were following as being quite a main road.

In actual fact the ‘main’ road was something of a bush track and impassable after heavy rain. Ordinary paper maps and GPS maps showed that but not the mapping programme they were using.

They got stuck for over a week and by the time the authorities found them the husband had died of exposure after he had tried to go for help.

]]> By: Nigel http://www.herveybaygossip.com/2007/06/23/google-giving-the-wrong-information-for-hervey-bay/#comment-4056 Nigel Sat, 23 Jun 2007 20:32:14 +0000 http://www.herveybaygossip.com/2007/06/23/google-giving-the-wrong-information-for-hervey-bay/#comment-4056 I had a similar issue with the directions part of the Google site last August. I was driving in from Beerwah and staying in a motel in Pialba. The directions took me all the way up to the Tourquay end of the bay when in actual fact an earlier left turn would have put me in Pialba. Thankfully I had spotted that it looked wrong on the printed map and decided for the first time to turn in the GPS in the hire car which got the right directions. Just goes to show, if you want to get it right don't trust google directions (made in the USA) but stick to good old Aussie made GPS! I had a similar issue with the directions part of the Google site last August. I was driving in from Beerwah and staying in a motel in Pialba. The directions took me all the way up to the Tourquay end of the bay when in actual fact an earlier left turn would have put me in Pialba.

Thankfully I had spotted that it looked wrong on the printed map and decided for the first time to turn in the GPS in the hire car which got the right directions.

Just goes to show, if you want to get it right don’t trust google directions (made in the USA) but stick to good old Aussie made GPS!

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