Crackpots going over the edge!

galaxy111 · Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 3:05 pm Post subject: Crackpots going over the edge!

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/05042006/344/sat-nav-drivers-close-edge.html

I thought the above story quite funny. I rather like the name of the village - don't know if it's genuine or down to journalistic license. Laughing

evilscoop · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 20, 2006 Posts: 2

its a real place, its been on all the radio stations this morning in the yorkshire area

chris_w · Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 3:29 pm Post subject:

It's reported here as well ............ Laughing

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1217784,00.html

Following your GPS blindly is a bad idea.........
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Scuby · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 24, 2006 Posts: 29

Any idea if this is specific to TeleAtlas or NavTeq?

Lew

Scuby · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 24, 2006 Posts: 29

Assuming it could be a problem with the unit or the map, I should have also asked if anyone knows which line of SatNav products are sending people there.

Lew

mikealder · Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 8:30 pm Post subject:

Aitch2 · Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 8:39 pm Post subject:

I heard the story on Radio4.

I find it amusing that some people would rather trust their GPS than their own eyes and proceed to argue the case with the locals! "But my GPS says this is a main road!"

Munters! Rolling Eyes

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chris_w · Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 11:21 pm Post subject:

galaxy111 · Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 9:39 am Post subject: Sat-Navies

Obviously there is a minority of Sat-Nav users (Sat-Navies?) that assume that the GPS has a more powerful brain than their own. And in some cases, this may well be true. Laughing

Does this mean that the tranquil hidden valleys of the Yorkshire Dales are now long gone? Crying or Very sad

chris_w · Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 9:54 am Post subject: Re: Sat-Navies

Scuby · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 24, 2006 Posts: 29

NMatthew · Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 8:24 am Post subject:

While I agree that anyone dozy enough to go through a farm gate onto an unmade track deserves everything they get, I can kind-of sympathise.

I have experienced a similar thing in Scotland. I have used my TomTom for several years with little or no real problem, to such an extent that I now no longer have a paper map in the car. I will use the one in TomTom and review the route it has chosen before setting off. However, this time in Scotland a raod shown on TomTom's map was no such thing, and required a 5 mile detour to go around. This is, of course, annoying, but hardly the end of the world. At least I ewasn't trying to get my wife to hospital to give birth or anything.

There are two points here I think.

Firstly, TeleAtlas say that they survey the roads. Oh yeah? Does anyone believe they took a survey vehicle to Crackpot? Clearly the data is from elsewhere (OS maybe) and they have misinterpreted some right of way as a a road. Map makers and Sat Nav vendors should be careful in making such claims.

Secondly, when we upgraded from TomTom 3 to TomTom 5 we lost the ability to mark sections of the map to avoid. I used to find this quite useful to mark up several roads that I use from time to time, including the change in one way systems in Nuneaton and Kettering. It would be nice to be able to kill this errant road in case I come across it in the summer as we are holidaying not far from there.

Please SatNav vendors, give us back the ability to mark bad roads!

Just my 2p.
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MikeB · Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 9:34 am Post subject:

jonajuna · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 14, 2006 Posts: 56

intrigued by this, i have had a looksee Smile

not for real, but by the power of my copilot and the web.

first off, CP6 doesnt even list crackpot as a place, so no problems for us users

secondly, i cant see what all the fuss is about, the map on multimap looks fine, ive driven on far worse, must be american tourists and continental lorry drivers that are having the problems, us brits are used to dodgy winding little roads, if people struggle with a road like that, i hpe to god they never travel in the western highlands or god forbid out on the western isles!!!!

multimap, even has it shown as a nice usable yellow road

http://multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?client=public&X=398000.237470665&Y=496000.441521528&width=700&height=400&gride=&gridn=&srec=0&coordsys=gb&db=freegaz&addr1=&addr2=&addr3=&pc=&advanced=&local=&localinfosel=&kw=&inmap=&table=&ovtype=&keepicon=&zm=0&scale=25000&left.x=5&left.y=211

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