On Monday 13 July 2009 01:00:14 pm Andrew McNabb wrote: > What do you mean by "too accurate"?
Example #1: We went on a highway for about 30 miles, except Google never said "go for 30 miles." It said "go for 12 miles, take a slight left, for for 6 files, take a slight right, go for 12 miles to your destination." As we were looking for these "slight rights" and "slight lefts", we realized the road made slight adjustments in direction. At these "slight" turns, there were no intersections, and no way to go anywhere except to follow the road. They could have easily said "drive on Highway 123 for 30 miles", but instead it was broken up in 3 different sections. Example #2: Getting out of the freeway, the instructions read "take a slight left to Road XYZ for 230 feet. Take left and merge to Highway 234". So we get off the freeway, and find a sign at the intersection for Road XYZ which starts to make a slight left turn. We took that road, but never found a way into Highway 234. We turned around, and found that Highway 234 was at the intersection getting off the freeway. However, Google considered 230 feet of the off-ramp Road XYZ. -- Alberto Treviño BYU Testing Center Brigham Young University -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
