dave wrote: > The office I work in is at the end an access road. Google maps as > well as all the GPS units I've seen show the road connecting to a > lower road a few feet away. However, there's a gate that is always > locked. When we have visitors we have to specifically tell them to > ignore what ever google, or their GPS tells them as it almost always > leads them to the wrong side of the gate. It wouldn't be so bad, > except there is no parking on that side of the gate, and it's about a > 5 mile loop to go back the correct way. > > This is one case where technology has made our life just a little bit > harder. People will assume they can find our office and don't bother > to ask us for directions anymore. > > dave
On a recent drive out to Dugway through Saratoga springs, I mapped the route on google maps. I could drag the route through a couple different possibilities, but it seemed that google maps was using some image recognition on the satellite images to tell me where roads were. It normally was okay, except it noticed a fenceline around the chemical weapons depot was devoid of sagebrush, and called it a road. I had to zoom in and realign the route to make sure it wasn't routing me down fencelines and railroad tracks. Brian -------------------- 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
