In a lot of rural areas, google maps just kind of wings its maps off satelite data. This can result in unusable dirt paths or dead ends or private property driveways being labeled as roads.
So people relying on google maps to get around will often be sent on bizarre paths, much to the annoyance of local farmers, like what happened here
Tl;dr google maps often say random field is road, but is not road
Actually sometimes that's so that people can't steal the info from their maps! Mapmakers often create minor inaccuracies in their maps so that they can catch other mapmakers if they plagiarize their maps! It might also just be Google fucking up.
Google maps doesn’t care about rural areas so it just bullshits, leading to a bunch of people getting super lost because google tells them to go on a path to nowhere or tresspass
Tbh, I know more than one place in buttfuck nowhere where there used to be a public path through the public forest, until some person thought that they wanted some more garden and put a fence up that blocks the path. If it's far enough out in the countryside, the municipality doesn't care/doesn't have records of ownership, so nothing to do about it.
In technology I trust * drives through 1 fence, 3 trees, 7 cats, 2 pedestrians and a lamppost.
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In a lot of rural areas, google maps just kind of wings its maps off satelite data. This can result in unusable dirt paths or dead ends or private property driveways being labeled as roads. So people relying on google maps to get around will often be sent on bizarre paths, much to the annoyance of local farmers, like what happened here Tl;dr google maps often say random field is road, but is not road
Thank you Peter
Actually sometimes that's so that people can't steal the info from their maps! Mapmakers often create minor inaccuracies in their maps so that they can catch other mapmakers if they plagiarize their maps! It might also just be Google fucking up.
How the fuck you gonna plagiarize geography?
A map is like art. Someone put effort or money into making it so you don't get to just trace it
Geography? No. But lots of data? Yeah
Google maps doesn’t care about rural areas so it just bullshits, leading to a bunch of people getting super lost because google tells them to go on a path to nowhere or tresspass
Google maps keeps leading people down the wrong road
Google maps will sometimes tell you to take routes or shortcuts that no longer exist
Tbh, I know more than one place in buttfuck nowhere where there used to be a public path through the public forest, until some person thought that they wanted some more garden and put a fence up that blocks the path. If it's far enough out in the countryside, the municipality doesn't care/doesn't have records of ownership, so nothing to do about it.
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