albion
Guru
- Location
- South Tyneside
Not so tall tales welcome.
Topical news.
Topical news.
Just heard someone drove off a bridge as Google hadn't updated the map/satnav thingy. You couldn't make it up........
It was always an accident waiting to happen. Deaths might occur for the unawares on cycling routes too. There the routes can actually go over Helvellyn.
And if you route from Threkeld to Grasmere you will see the west side of Thirmere is shown as open, despite being closed for years.
I find it useful it that it certainly can choose the quietest routes.
Sadly, the likes of Tiktok, Twitter and Google maps do as close to zero maintaining integrity.
Are one mountain rescue volunteer says Scarfell Pike looks like a field on Google maps!
There are some places where telling whether you are in BE or NL can require border markings on the pavement every hundred metres or so, and where there are bits of NL that are inside bits of BE that are in NL.Another time, it was telling me I was in Belgium when I was definitely in NL. Osmand, on the same phone, had my location accurately, GM for whatever reason didn't.