Google Maps

[asterroc]

This xkcd isn't too far from my experience with Google Maps during my recent road trip. It saw into the future (I-840 in NC didn't yet exist, and "Future I-840" ended at Exit 19 where Google Maps told me to get off at Exit 21), and it didn't see into construction (I-95 didn't have an exit 351C in Florida). I guess this is why they recommend a sanity check at the bottom in fine print on all their directions.

Comments

[sirroxton.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Google maps tried to ship us across a ghostly midnight ferry once. We really should have read the directions before our return from Quebec. =)

[kadath.livejournal.com]

MapQuest is much better for driving directions.

[spazzy444.livejournal.com]

This is why I invested in a Tom Tom.
I still take directions with me, but Tom will reroute me if I make some adjustments to his suggestions.

[jrtom.livejournal.com]

At one point Google Maps tried to direct us down the Harbor Steps in Seattle (as the name implies: not actually a road). Generally it's worked fine for me, but the XKCD comic is brilliant, as usual. :)

[calzephyr77.livejournal.com]

I get irritated when Google puts a place in the wrong quadrant of the city. I emailed the maps team about one of them, but it's still not fixed.

Microsoft Streets and Trips is not much better. It wanted us to leave the main highway and go through some fields on our trip last year :-)

Great comic btw! I should check it more frequently...