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British Village Requests Removal From GPS Maps
longacre writes "The tiny village of Barrow Gurney, England, has asked GPS map publisher Tele Atlas to remove them from the company's maps. The reason: truck drivers using GPS navigation devices are being directed to drive through the town despite the roads being too narrow for sidewalks, which has led to numerous accidents. At the root of the problem lies the fact that the navigation maps used by trucks are the same as those used by passenger cars, and they don't contain data on road width or no-truck zones. Tele Atlas says they will release truck-appropriate databases at some point, but until then they advise local governments to make use of a technology dating back to the Romans: road signs."
These aren't the roads you're looking for.
"Time is nothing; timing is everything."
Cut him some slack, he probably just had some Decepticon ass to kick.
...for local people.
Tubal-Cain smokes the white owl.
Coming up on your right... nothing.
...basically, by misdirecting trucks via GPS, the machines now have a way to kill us.
If your theory is different from practice, then your theory is wrong.
Barrow Gurney, instead of trying to do away with this new source of traffic, adapt! Enjoy the opportunity of having all these truck divers going through your locality to develop your economy and move on to the next level!
Everyone knows a truck driver craves fornication with women. Have whores! Put some money into turning an old farm in dereliction into a brothel and import truckloads of east European prostitutes! Then build your economy around this, build hotels, fast-food restaurants, gynaecology clinics, and soon enough you'll be the city every European truck driver wants to stop in!
You just got troll'd!
Seriously, who are you? Wikipedia?
"Thanks for all the money you paid to us. We've used it to buy off ISO among other things" -Microsoft
Make a bypass! Problem solved!
What? There's a house in the way? You say it's owned by Arthur Dent?
I'll get the byzantine paper trail started, go tell Prosser to fire up the bulldozer.
"All great wisdom is contained in .signature files"
4. Get fined by the EU for using lb instead of kilograms
Don't taze me, good buddy! 10-4
Good. Cheap. Fast. Pick Two.
How the heck you you expect the police to fill their tase quota without picking off a trucker or two? Sheesh people these days.
"I don't necessarily agree with everything I say." - Marshall McLuhan
Here's what else can happen if you ignore those signs:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWdgAMYjYSs
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Don't be silly. We shoot and bludgeon our truckers here.
Don't be such a pansy.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
I heard that as a Bill Engvall routine.
Cop pulls up and asks "Ya get yer truck stuck?"
Trucker: "Nosir, I was delivering this overpass and I ran outta gas!"
if the answer isn't violence, neither is your silence / freedom of expression doesn't make it alright
I know! The British truck drivers are the worst! They are all driving on the wrong side of the road! /ducks
There's already a solution to the fire engine problem.
I was hoping for one of those horsedrawn ones, with those up-and-down pump handles and lots of brass. It would fit the 'Olde English Village' image too.
It's true I tell you, feller at work's next door neighbour read it in the paper.
"Why don't you let some air out of the tyres?"
This kid did not realize it was the top of the truck that was stuck, not the bottom!And don't get me started on dog owners who use those ten-foot leashes and assume their mutts understand traffic
Actually, that would be a safe assumption to make. The mutts who don't understand traffic are not on leashes anymore...
I found a copy of the original correspondence between the village and the TeleAtlas:
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Just put up a sign saying "Toll Road for Trucks: XX $" and watch how truckers do a quick reverse and disappear forever.
Such a sign would be especially effective at discouraging British truck drivers who don't routinely keep American currency on hand.
This isn't Amsterdam... # is illegal in the UK.