[OSM-talk] Driver dies in reservoir after following SatNav
Nathan Edgars II
neroute2 at gmail.com
Wed Oct 6 11:03:08 BST 2010
Celso González wrote:
>
> 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
>
Here too:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=28.3149&lon=-80.9675&zoom=13&layers=M
I'll get to it eventually, but no router will use those roads so it's not a
big deal.
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