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There's a music festival in small town Kansas that attracts people from the cities. Every year, the local Sheriff's office is all over Facebook warning people that Google Maps lies, and even your Suburbitank will get stuck if you follow the suggested route down an unmaintained farm path.
There was a wide dirt road near my city in Mexico that appeared as “paved” for decades in printed maps, looks to me like some corrupt politicians in power back in the 70s skimmed more than just the cream off the top, all they managed was to scrape the wide road with no budget left over for the asphalt phase.
This road finally got paved around 15 years ago, since then the old map are now correct.
I might have to start putting up some of these signs!
We've(USA) had issues with mapping programs, not just Google maps, routing people down rough two tracks who didn't have the skills, nor the vehicle, to handle those rough two tracks. Many mapping programs deleted those roads. I think they should have marked them as not available for routing.
A really on-the-ball mapping program would give a “high-clearance 4x4 only” option to route over them.
this sign works on a number of levels
Well, if that isn't a message the whole world needs to hear!
Well, that's not a good sign.
it’s right in so many levels 😅
so what did you do? Did you go back? I’m curious now!
#Alt4You image description (you may be able to update your post to make it more accessible): “Google is wrong. Go back” spray painted on plywood propped up by roadblock hazard indicators in front of a long dirt road
Google maps does not work well, try use
There are quite a few signs like this across Australia.
Some even resemble official council signs.
I've even met property owners who regularly have to put drivers back on the right path after they have ventured into the middle of someone's place.
Relying on google in the bush is a very bad idea.
was in Queensland heading back to Perth during covid. Had to decide which of the two roads into Western Australia we should take. Google suggested (and still does) the dirt road that goes via Warburton. It is shorter but needs permits and a decent vehicle.
“sign of the times”, as you do.
there’s quite a few like that
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-28/google-maps-sending-people-wrong-way-quairading-shire/103207090
This is true of so many things
Need one on my street. People put the suburb in and it takes them to the middle of the suburb. Yet the people want to go to the beach. Some even get out and start looking around for the beach. Instead they find a creek and oval. Not that many beaches where you drive to a base of a hill.
LoL Here be dragons
Y'know though, if you report a problem to Maps, they can and will fix it.
There's a closed bridge in a town nearby, it's been closed for almost 3 years waiting for state funding to repair it, but nobody, not even the town highway department thought to report it to Google, so Maps routed over it all the time.
I reported it, and 3 weeks later it showed up as closed.
It may be flawed, but it's dynamic.
lol city kids. The lesson: The terrain isn’t the data (map). #GroundTruth
I’ve had that happen at backwoods gas stations, I’ve always politely said thank you 😊
dont use google maps!
my sister's farm has a council right-of-way through it, has never had a road or even a grader along the ROW. For years google would show it as a route to the nearest town, extra fun when hwy blocked by crash & the clueless tried to blindly follow google maps
I mean paper maps had the same problem. That road going north from Arco, Idaho that cuts 150 miles off your trip?
This would probably be a good addition to 's images folder.
Ah yes, a classic case of midlands madness.