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Would you ever ask a map to tell you what road to take, or would you check the possible road and pick one for yourself...
Look at the map and find the road:
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Google Maps 'saw' a road (but Google Maps is not a vehicles only map) between E-470 and Jakson Gap St., can you?
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Yep, here: Google Maps[^] If only this notice/barrier had been at the other end too! (Though who leaves a road in this sort of state[^] anyway...   Surely at that point most people would turn around...?
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Google Maps can't tell you the current state of the road. If it's been raining recently and the road is impassable due to mud, Google maps can't tell you that. The driver needs to take responsibility, and determine if the suggested route is suitable for their vehicle.
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Dominic Burford wrote: If it's been raining recently and the road is impassable due to mud, Google maps can't tell you that. The driver needs to take responsibility, and determine if the suggested route is suitable for their vehicle.
That is true. But the story really didn't give enough details to know what really happened.
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The story gave all the information anyone needed. There was a long queue of traffic to the airport, so some people decided to try to find an alternative route using Google maps. That route happended to be very muddy, but the drivers continued anyway.
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Dominic Burford wrote: That route happended to be very muddy, but the drivers continued anyway.
Actually, it did not say that. It said that some drivers got into a "muddy mess." Which means absolutely nothing.
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To get into a muddy mess requires mud. And there was even images of the muddy road on the clip.
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Dominic Burford wrote: To get into a muddy mess requires mud. And there was even images of the muddy road on the clip.
First off, you might actually be right. However, that "article" was so poorly written and so quickly put together that no, you can't know anything conclusively.
For example, that mud could have been from anywhere. And getting into a "muddy mess" does not even mean they got stuck. If you drive through a muddy puddle you are in a muddy mess.
It's a piece of crap reporting.
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I used to live on a farm and that kind of thing was common around there. I would look at the maps for my area and see lots of "roads" that were actually just dirt pass-throughs on a farm. Residents of the farms called them "avenues." They were not real roads at all and certainly not maintained by the government.
I blame the people who drive the scanning cars and think those kinds of things should be part of the map. I really don't think they should because the "roads" are not for public travel.
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Yes, it is, because not all misinformation on Google is there by accident.
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ZurdoDev wrote: It's common sense to know when google is wrong?
Then I have a lot of common sense!
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They do it all the time: 16 mind-boggling sat nav fails[^]
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Some of those are brilliant 
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... unlike the drivers ... 
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F***ing stupid Abusive clickity right next to Next page clickity. I stuffed it up. If you or someone else can undo it, please do.
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Not sure what you have done, but perhaps @Sean-Ewington can work it out?
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I was going back through the Lounge and at the bottom of each page clicking the next page button. Your post happened to be at the bottom of the page, as I moved the mouse top the button I moved over the flag. As I clicked the next page button the Abusive option o the fly out menu popped up and I managed to click that ionstead.
Didn't know how to put the genie back in the bottle.
Wasn't even reading your message, for some reason all the computers using different browsers were all stuck on Open All so reckon if that would have turned off I wouldn't be in this predicament. Now I'm at home on one of the affected machines and it isn't infected now.
F*** technology sometimes.
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Eh, no problem - I'm not banned yet!
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No worries. It's all good.
Thanks,
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The map wasn't wrong. It just didn't mention it would be messy. 
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had the same with a NavMan, offered shortest route up a steep hill on a well corrigated loose metal road - the main road (2 lanes each way_ was only 2 km longer and being smooth much faster.
it's just common sense: for instance ask any software what is the fastest way down a 20 floor building, answer is out the window isn't it - fastest path, straightest line, so why make a fuss that it's not what's expected.
100% operator error - you get what you ask for, blaming google for getting such is just whining.
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The [^] links right back to the Lounge (for me, it's an empty href)... I agree, common sense is a rare commodity here
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Only the [^] part, the 'clickety' part takes you right to the muddy fields of Denver...
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I'm surprised I had to read through so many comments until finally someone both noticed and mentioned that little oversight..
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