German tourists lost for more than a week after Google Maps mishap
German tourists lost for more than a week after Google Maps mishap
Two German tourists are lucky to be alive after spending more than a week lost in the remote Far North Quee...
With how often they get lost on Austrian mountains I'm shocked they survived in fucking Australia
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-3That's your fucking problem
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There are far worse examples of Germans getting lost.
14Google maps killed people last year. It used to be that if you navigated to a pin based on lat lon it would geocode the location. Often, in the wilderness this would get geocoded to the center of a very large school district. This led me to being a hundred miles off on one occasion in the Gila wilderness without realizing I had missed where I really intended to go. I am sure this happened to the couple in Nevada that got lost, then got stuck, then got lost and stuck again.
12if you navigated to a pin based on lat lon it would genocide the location.
Well, that does sound like it would lead to a lot of deaths.
21Google is more evil than we realised!
4Hahaha. Even autocorrect knows.
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I don't know why people are down voting you. You are speaking the truth. I learned the hard way in Oregon and in the deserts of New Mexico that if I must use Google for GPS, use it on satellite view and that's how you can get accurate locations on your pins. But it only works on satellite view.
Otherwise, no joke, Google will navigate you to the middle of a school district, absolutely nowhere near the pinned destination. It's disorienting and terrifying especially when alone and confused. Like I know I dropped that pin last time I was there but I don't know how to get back! I'm lost!
10if you navigated to a pin based on lat lon it would genocide the location.
I don't know why people are down voting you. You are speaking the truth.
I think the horrors of Google's genocides are well documented on Wikipedia. I don't know why anyone doubts this anymore.
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if you navigated to a pin based on lat lon it would genocide the location.
Well, that does sound like it would lead to a lot of deaths.
1Should’ve used Waze
-11You people do know osm exists right? Just use something like organicmaps then you have navigation and routing even without cell network.
20All that would have changed would be the word "Google" in the headline
5Waze went to shit after Google bought it. I had to stop using it because Waze started changing my destination mid-route without warning.
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