[talk-au] Blind obedience following routing tools.

[Steve Bennett]

(whoops, wrong button)
The weird error on Bing Maps:

http://binged.it/RlH1PC

The real Mt Buller can be seen 50km to the north. This error means if you
route from Mansfield to Mt Buller (less than a 1 hour drive) it takes all
the way back to Melbourne then via Licola - over 7 hours.

Steve


On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 5:48 PM, David Bannon <dbannon at internode.on.net>wrote:
>
>>
>> I guess people are aware of this story, people in trouble for following
>> badly constructed maps -
>>
>>
>> http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-12-10/apple-maps-strands-motorists-looking-for-mildura/4418400
>>
>> Looks like its to be the lead story on the abc news tonight.
>>
>> I bet we could all find examples in OSM that could cause similar
>> problems.
>>
>
> Yep. For better or worse, OSM doesn't inspire the same trust (or blind
> faith) that Apple does.
>
> I discovered this weird error on Bing Maps yesterday:
>
>
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