[OSM-talk] Driver dies in reservoir after following SatNav

Richard Mann richard.mann.westoxford at googlemail.com
Wed Oct 6 10:56:47 BST 2010


Well the good news is that OSM didn't have the old roads through the
reservoir. The bad news is that OSM doesn't have the new bridge over
the reservoir either. Easy enough to fix, if the people willing to
trace from aerial photos for the general good were allowed to use
them. How many people have to die before that happens?

Richard

2010/10/6 Celso González <celso at mitago.net>:
> On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 01:49:04PM +0100, Patrick Weber wrote:
>> Here's another of these stories now common of drivers blindly
>> following their satnav, unfortunately this time, the driver drowned!
>>
>> http://www.reghardware.com/2010/10/05/satnav_error_man_drowns/
>>
>> I looked up the place in Google Maps, and low and behold, all the
>> roads pre-reservoir are still there ! Thanks TeleAtlas for not having
>> checked your road network for the last 30 years (the reservoir was
>> built in 1989!)
>
> Its very common with "new" reservoirs
>
> http://kcy.me/bka
>
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> Celso González (PerroVerd)
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