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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

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zalebz wrote: post #161
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 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.

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

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Post by manigandham »

inetknght wrote: post #77
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…

> I think most sane drivers would have bailed at the first turn off of the pavement. Why? If it's an area unfamiliar to them then it's very reasonable to assume that Google might know it better than you.

It's no match to human intuition and reasoning. Even if there is a route, it doesn't mean you're equipped to take it.

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

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Post by howlgarnish »

Soemthing seems to have been lost in translation here? The "Road of Bones" is indeed infamously bad, but it's also the only road between these two extremely remote locations, I don't see how else Google could route them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R504_Kolyma_Highway

> Locally, the road is known as Trassa (Russian: Трасса – "The Route"), or Kolymskaya trassa (Russian: Колымская трасса – "The Kolyma Route"), since it is the only road in the area and therefore needs no special name to distinguish it from other roads.

Update: This image makes it clearer: they were told to go on a disused stretch of road, which is where they got stuck.

https://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/481952e93a2fed32c94a09bd...

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

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Post by kjs3 »

latchkey wrote: post #152
kjs3 wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're a fan of a 'feature' that doesn't do what it should and puts people in danger. I get you just took an opportunity to post a 'look at me and my cool adventure' thing, but why don't you just adapt Chaosmonkey or something to choosing your route and enjoy. Don't imply this is a good thing or other people should follow your example.

Calm down. Everything I said was personal experience about something I really enjoy. I never 'implied' anything.

I never used the word 'implied'. I completely understand that you felt compelled/entitled to piggyback your 'personal experience' on a tragedy. It's a shame you don't understand what a lack of morals that is, but you be you, right?

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

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Post by Talanes »

zalebz wrote: post #161
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 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.

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

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Post by tomcam »

JasonCEC wrote: post #81

This happened to me in the jungles of Indonesia.. [0] I literally followed google maps and rode my motorcycle into the jungle. It started off a reasonable road and quickly became dangerous and then deadly. I rolled down the mountain side with the motorcycle and got very, very lucky that I was only mildly hurt (on top of the brutal sunburn I got on the ride). I ran into the local village (more like hobbled) and the fi…

Amazing story, and if your profile is current you have one of the more interesting jobs on HN.

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

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Post by taurath »

zalebz wrote: post #161
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 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.

The right answer is for the near-trillion dollar company to stop calling what is not a road a road I'd think rather than a rural landowner to have to go thru the expense of putting up a gate!

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

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Post by at_a_remove »

As someone who works in mapping in fire and rescue, I run into this problem constantly. It's fine for an established city, largely speaking. However, you get out into the country (and I use that term fairly loosely) and roads will be labeled incorrectly (I saw one that had the name of another road a mile off once, that was fun) and its idea of what is and is not vehicle-worth can be ... optimistic.

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

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Post by stubish »

zalebz wrote: post #161
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 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.

The answer is to put the burden of cost on the victim?
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