Google Maps changes a route after the drama of young people lost on a ghost road

Post by Bjartr » Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 4:15 AM UTC

Thorrez wrote: post #201

slickrick216 wrote: post #126

Google maps has marked my parents in laws drive way as a road. The drive way is quite long as they are on a farm. Due to a right of way for an owner of a field who owns an enclave within their land they can’t put a gate up. It’s quite unmistakable you are going into someone’s house though. This has led to countless individuals showing up and driving through their land past their home. Lots of people stop and ask for…

>I’ve done the whole google maps support thing but no response and deaf ears. You've used the suggest a change feature within Maps? I've done that several times and I think it always worked for me. Full disclosure I work at Google, not on Maps, and I always did the suggest a change with my personal account.

Post by paledot » Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 4:25 AM UTC

Post by yellow_postit » Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 4:27 AM UTC

lostlogin wrote: post #148

gambiting wrote: post #73

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Is that not the road used by Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman in Long Way Round? Because if yes then that road was passable, but even in the summer they had to cross several streams and it looked like the only people driving it were locals in old 6x6 Kamaz Trucks.

If you excuse the episode where they behave like brats at not getting the bikes they wanted, the series is great (and so is “The long way down”).

Post by rabidrat » Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 4:34 AM UTC

woeirua wrote: post #205

hirundo wrote: post #34

Travelling from Durango Colorado to Reserve New Mexico, Google Maps routed me to a "road" that was simply a dry stream bed, in the middle of Navajo Nation, in high desert wilderness, many miles from human habitation. It happened gradually. First I was directed to a well maintained gravel road, then to dirt track, which forked and forked and slowly faded to nothing. I was driving a 4x4, had an almost full tank, a load…

Not a Google Maps story, but a family died in Death Valley 24 years ago by following a map that showed a similar road that was not passable for their vehicle. Tragic way to die. https://www.strangeoutdoors.com/mysterious-stories-blog/2017...

Post by mark-r » Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 4:36 AM UTC

Talanes wrote: post #175

zalebz wrote: post #161

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I think the answer is to put up a gate with keypad and just provide the code to the landowner that has right of way. expensive but 100% effective.

Even a gate with just a rope latch would give most people pause.