Comments on: So what IS the harm? http://noisyastronomer.com/2008/08/28/so-what-is-the-harm/ Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:33:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Rich http://noisyastronomer.com/2008/08/28/so-what-is-the-harm/#comment-62 Rich Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:58:00 +0000 http://astronoise.wordpress.com/2008/08/28/so-what-is-the-harm/#comment-62 I'm especially amused at the section on GPS's and technology; I just got back from a trip from NY to NC and back again, in which I used a combination of a GPS and Google Maps for navigation.<br/><br/>It was *amazing* how wrong they were in sections of NC and VA. In one case, for example, Google Maps showed one small country road connecting to the one we needed to be on. Nope. There was the minor issue of a mile of solid woods between the two. That required a 25 mile detour. In another case, the Garmin GPS tried to have us go infinitely in a circle, even though, looking at its map, it had the correct roads and could have easily gotten is there directly. I’m especially amused at the section on GPS’s and technology; I just got back from a trip from NY to NC and back again, in which I used a combination of a GPS and Google Maps for navigation.

It was *amazing* how wrong they were in sections of NC and VA. In one case, for example, Google Maps showed one small country road connecting to the one we needed to be on. Nope. There was the minor issue of a mile of solid woods between the two. That required a 25 mile detour. In another case, the Garmin GPS tried to have us go infinitely in a circle, even though, looking at its map, it had the correct roads and could have easily gotten is there directly.

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