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Catching Satnav Errors On Google Street View

Posted by timothy on from the now-wait-3-months-for-the-ferry dept.

Barence writes "Most of the satnav companies allow users to report errors with their maps, but do they ever get fixed? PC Pro's Paul Ockenden uses Google StreetView to highlight glaring and dangerous flaws in Tele Atlas maps — which are used by TomTom and Google Maps itself — but the company has failed to respond to numerous reports of map errors posted over the course of several years. 'About half a mile from where I live, a Tele Atlas-based satnav will instruct you to turn off at a junction where there's only an on-ramp,' Ockenden reports. 'I've witnessed some confused and dangerous driving at this junction as people try to find the non-existent exit, so I wouldn't be surprised if major mapping errors like this are a danger to road safety.'"

2 of 312 comments (clear)

  1. Google Map is choke full of errors by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    But I do like the pretty pictures. Google is interesting in that they have already changed the world in 2-3 ways. Without even killing anyone!

    -- Nigger Master

  2. keep talking and they'll outlaw it next by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Keep talking about how dangerous DWN (driving with navigation) is, that way this nanny state government can outlaw it too, just like your mobil phones.

    CB'ers and Ham's are laughing at you idiots.

    Christ back in the day I could deal with a stick, an open beer between the legs a CB flamewar, and reloading my rifle while deer poaching with a spotlight, now we have a generation of idiots who can't watch the road, and a government full of thugs ready to crack down on the stupidest corporate media originated propaganda seed story.

    So your satnav has errors, ever print a mapquest page and hit the mountains? they're crap. Ever carry extra five gallon gas tanks, so you don't run out in the backwoods? Ever have your grandpa teach you to put your camp fire out? There's the problem, no common fucking sense.