Re: [talk-au] Blind obedience following routing tools.
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 5:48 PM, David Bannon dban...@internode.on.netwrote: I guess people are aware of this story, people in trouble for following badly constructed maps - http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-12-10/apple-maps-strands-motorists-looking-for-mildura/4418400 Looks like its to be the lead story on the abc news tonight. I bet we could all find examples in OSM that could cause similar problems. Yep. For better or worse, OSM doesn't inspire the same trust (or blind faith) that Apple does. I discovered this weird error on Bing Maps yesterday: ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] Blind obedience following routing tools.
(whoops, wrong button) The weird error on Bing Maps: http://binged.it/RlH1PC The real Mt Buller can be seen 50km to the north. This error means if you route from Mansfield to Mt Buller (less than a 1 hour drive) it takes all the way back to Melbourne then via Licola - over 7 hours. Steve On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 5:48 PM, David Bannon dban...@internode.on.netwrote: I guess people are aware of this story, people in trouble for following badly constructed maps - http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-12-10/apple-maps-strands-motorists-looking-for-mildura/4418400 Looks like its to be the lead story on the abc news tonight. I bet we could all find examples in OSM that could cause similar problems. Yep. For better or worse, OSM doesn't inspire the same trust (or blind faith) that Apple does. I discovered this weird error on Bing Maps yesterday: ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
[talk-au] Blind obedience following routing tools.
I guess people are aware of this story, people in trouble for following badly constructed maps - http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-12-10/apple-maps-strands-motorists-looking-for-mildura/4418400 Looks like its to be the lead story on the abc news tonight. I bet we could all find examples in OSM that could cause similar problems. David ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
