Google Maps changes a route after the drama of young people lost on a ghost road
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Re: Google Maps changes a route after the drama of young people lost on a ghost road
#2Source with photos: https://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/tragedy-in-yakut...
Re: Google Maps changes a route after the drama of young people lost on a ghost road
#3Here's a link with an image of the highway of bones:
https://elpais.com/internacional/2020-12-23/perdidos-en-la-t...
Here is a video of a drive along it between the cities mentioned in the article:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J46vglp6g98
Insane cold in this area - I'd be curious what type of preparation they had for this, and why not turn back if things were impassable?
Google in the USA maps lots of roads that are 4x4 only (but totally fine on 4x4).
Is this really a ghost road with no use in 20 years? I could pretty easily find some towns that would seem to be connected with it. Also plenty of adventurers and motorcyclists (??? how cold would that be?) seem to take it?
Did they by ANY chance turn down a farm road or some other side track?
A brief check of sat views doesn't really match the "abandoned for 20 years" claim being made here.
Re: Google Maps changes a route after the drama of young people lost on a ghost road
#4Another day, another person killed by Google.
Re: Google Maps changes a route after the drama of young people lost on a ghost road
#5TL;DR there is a road that goes through a really cold part of Russia (and we mean cold for even Russia). 2 young men were driving on it and their car got struck by a tree branch so it stopped working. One froze to death before help arrived the other is in critical condition.
The article appears to be almost devoid of information about Google.
Re: Google Maps changes a route after the drama of young people lost on a ghost road
#6I don't quite understand the part in this about Google Maps changing the route. When I put in directions to Google Maps for Yakutsk to Magadan it still goes along the P-504 (aka Kolyma Highway or "Road of Bones" [0]).
The Wikipedia page also says that the road is called the Kolyma Route "since it is the only road in the area and therefore needs no special name to distinguish it from other roads"
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R504_Kolyma_Highway
Edit: Okay, it was pointed out in the comments below that Google maps does go on the correct route now. It is the same general road, but there was a section called the "Old Summer Road" that had fallen in to disrepair but was shorter.
Re: Google Maps changes a route after the drama of young people lost on a ghost road
#7TL;DR there is a road that goes through a really cold part of Russia (and we mean cold for even Russia). 2 young men were driving on it and their car got struck by a tree branch so it stopped working. One froze to death before help arrived the other is in critical condition. The article appears to be almost devoid of information about Google.
Indeed, paper maps have killed people in the exact same way, like James Kim who drove up a forest road in Oregon, became snowbound, and died.
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#8Article mentions "forced to change a route" but has no before/after image of the route and nothing to support the idea that this incident forced anybody to do anything with respect to the map.
Re: Google Maps changes a route after the drama of young people lost on a ghost road
#9For navigating Russia, I guess you need to trust Yandex.
Re: Google Maps changes a route after the drama of young people lost on a ghost road
#10Here's a link with an image of the highway of bones: https://elpais.com/internacional/2020-12-23/perdidos-en-la-t... Here is a video of a drive along it between the cities mentioned in the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J46vglp6g98 Insane cold in this area - I'd be curious what type of preparation they had for this, and why not turn back if things were impassable? Google in the USA maps lots of roads that a…
From this link posted in another comment it says "The two travelers - not dressed for extreme cold - evidently took a wrong turn and their car got damaged". So it does not seem to be because google suggested the incorrect route.
https://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/tragedy-in-yakut...
Edit: It was pointed out in the comments below that Google maps does go on the correct route now. It is the same general road, but there was a section called the "Old Summer Road" that had fallen in to disrepair but was shorter.
Here is a link that illustrates the difference: https://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/481952e93a2fed32c94a09bd...
Google maps now follows the red dotted line in the image if you enter the route.