My leukemia's back.

[ronott1]

BTW I don't have a smart phone or a mapping thing in my car, but I understand most are set up based on internet mapping services, and I tried looking up rural addresses and they won't always find it because the maps are differently inputed because here in Indiana it is county road 123 east box (or house number) 432 south and some will not understand it, i remember looking up something a few years back and having to type in county highway number 123 box 432. here we only have state and interstate highways.

Garmin and other GPS systems can find places based on gps coordinates not just addresses. In situations like yours, that can be very helpful

 

[wyoDreamer]

You do have to be careful with those maps from Garmin, Tom Tom, etc. when you are traveling in the rural west.

I know of a rancher in Wyoming who has to deal with lost travelers all the time. They are at the end of a 45 mile long, gravel, DEAD_END county road. But the maps show that the road goes all the way from State Highway to state Highway. He has had gates left open between pastures, gas siphoned out of his trucks, gas stolen from his pump by the garage, people stranded because they ran out of gas, and other things happen. People have cussed him out because "their GArmin says its a road and he has no right to make them turn around and go back the way they came".

 

[ronott1]

You do have to be careful with those maps from Garmin, Tom Tom, etc. when you are traveling in the rural west.

I know of a rancher in Wyoming who has to deal with lost travelers all the time. They are at the end of a 45 mile long, gravel, DEAD_END county road. But the maps show that the road goes all the way from State Highway to state Highway. He has had gates left open between pastures, gas siphoned out of his trucks, gas stolen from his pump by the garage, people stranded because they ran out of gas, and other things happen. People have cussed him out because "their GArmin says its a road and he has no right to make them turn around and go back the way they came".

We had an issue in a National Forrest too! Garmin sent us up a fire break and not a road

 

[oldrooster]

Diva, you should have told the person in the car you didn't need to go wee wee or get a bottle of water so you never looked for one. But the biggest Part of the reason I haven't bought one, I want to ask how do I get there? and if it won't tell me it exists how can I get there? I have a family member who married a woman who had lots of family where the addresses did not compute, she had to go with him and he did as some have said here hit a button or series of buttons and saved it at a person's house and some of them he remembered Sally lived 2 houses before he got there or George lives down the road a mile so he never saved all, but many. But as I said he had someone who knew how to get there the first time. and with GPS I don't know if certain businesses know how to use it or most people know where they are using longitude and latitude. I know my street address but I can't say longitude 134 2 hours 34 minutes 13 seconds latitude 231 etc etc etc... location.

 

[getaclue]

You do have to be careful with those maps from Garmin, Tom Tom, etc. when you are traveling in the rural west.

I know of a rancher in Wyoming who has to deal with lost travelers all the time. They are at the end of a 45 mile long, gravel, DEAD_END county road. But the maps show that the road goes all the way from State Highway to state Highway. He has had gates left open between pastures, gas siphoned out of his trucks, gas stolen from his pump by the garage, people stranded because they ran out of gas, and other things happen. People have cussed him out because "their GArmin says its a road and he has no right to make them turn around and go back the way they came".

We had an issue in a National Forrest too! Garmin sent us up a fire break and not a road

Usually, when something like this happens, if they are contacted about it, they try to get it fixed quickly.

 

[bruceha2000]

Thing is they mostly all get their map data from the same place. They would have to get that company to fix it first.

 

[wyoDreamer]

I called 4 or 5 different map sources that Google earth, Tom Tom and Garmin use. Only one of the people I talked to even cared that it wasn't a public road - he was going to see if he could fix it and I emailed him a map. 2 actually said that they would not do anything, their maps state that they are not responsible for the accuracy of the map. One was chinese and although I left a message, I don't think they did anything. Google Earth still has a road line running right through the peoples yard... in fact, they have a road along the driveway right to the barnyard.

 

[Alaskan]

That is bad.

 

[ronott1]

That is bad.

It will be really bad if they do not fix stuff before self driving cars are allowed out of Cities!

 

[bruceha2000]

That is for sure!