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did you go back?

There's a music festival in small town Kansas that attracts people from the cities. Every year, the local Sheriff's office is all over Facebook warning people that Google Maps lies, and even your Suburbitank will get stuck if you follow the suggested route down an unmaintained farm path.

I mean paper maps had the same problem. That road going north from Arco, Idaho that cuts 150 miles off your trip?

was in Queensland heading back to Perth during covid. Had to decide which of the two roads into Western Australia we should take. Google suggested (and still does) the dirt road that goes via Warburton. It is shorter but needs permits and a decent vehicle.

I might have to start putting up some of these signs!

This is true of so many things

LoL Here be dragons

There are quite a few signs like this across Australia.
Some even resemble official council signs.
I've even met property owners who regularly have to put drivers back on the right path after they have ventured into the middle of someone's place.
Relying on google in the bush is a very bad idea.

“sign of the times”, as you do.

This would probably be a good addition to 's images folder.

so what did you do? Did you go back? I’m curious now!

Ah yes, a classic case of midlands madness.

Y'know though, if you report a problem to Maps, they can and will fix it.
There's a closed bridge in a town nearby, it's been closed for almost 3 years waiting for state funding to repair it, but nobody, not even the town highway department thought to report it to Google, so Maps routed over it all the time.
I reported it, and 3 weeks later it showed up as closed.
It may be flawed, but it's dynamic.

Need one on my street. People put the suburb in and it takes them to the middle of the suburb. Yet the people want to go to the beach. Some even get out and start looking around for the beach. Instead they find a creek and oval. Not that many beaches where you drive to a base of a hill.

Well, if that isn't a message the whole world needs to hear!

Well, that's not a good sign.

lol city kids. The lesson: The terrain isn’t the data (map). #GroundTruth

there’s quite a few like that
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-28/google-maps-sending-people-wrong-way-quairading-shire/103207090

this sign works on a number of levels

I’ve had that happen at backwoods gas stations, I’ve always politely said thank you 😊

Google maps does not work well, try use

dont use google maps!

it’s right in so many levels 😅

my sister's farm has a council right-of-way through it, has never had a road or even a grader along the ROW. For years google would show it as a route to the nearest town, extra fun when hwy blocked by crash & the clueless tried to blindly follow google maps