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My Garmin always misses my granddaughter's address by about 5 miles. Funny though I can enter the same house numbers 5 blocks south of her and it gets that one right.
 
Something I've wondered since Day One. How the heck do online map services, and GPS devices, obtain and organize all that address info?

Can't say I remember anyone driving down our street, checking house numbers. House photos maybe - but not actual addresses.

I live on a private road, and my address is correct in a couple online maps systems (but not all).
 
Every tool has its use - and misuse. That said I Have communicated with Google re wrong locations and they have corrected their maps. It is not in their interest to be wrong.
 
Wait... maybe it's a spell-checker auto-correct thing... "Brazilia" to... no, never mind.
 
PAUL161 said:
That's what GPS does here also! I told delivery people not to trust GPS in this area and they say, "we have the best system, we'll find you"! Guess what, their usually 1 to 3 miles off course! The phone rings, help I'm lost! Now we have to direct them from where we THINK they are. Don't know why this happens and can not get a straight answer from those who are supposed to know. We don't live in a community, we live in the boonies and about 2 steps up from Pony Express deliveries! :indecisiveness: PJ
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Dude, leave it be! I wrapped my entire place in tin foil TWICE and it still shows up....:crazyeyes:
 
NutmegCT said:
Something I've wondered since Day One. How the heck do online map services, and GPS devices, obtain and organize all that address info?
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It boggles my mind. Time flows differently the further out you are from the gravity of the earth. So the clocks of the GPS satellites keep different time from us down here. The GPS in your car reads the timecode from at least three satellites down to the millionth of a second, compensates for the time difference and calculates your location. Then it references it's maps and draws a scalable picture for you to look at. Then it has to figure out from a bunch of numbers how to get you from one location to another. Google maps is a whole other thing. Given a location, it layers a scalable drawing, a "satellite view" that zooms with a street view that you can pan in 360 degrees.:stupid:
 
Well the word "luddite" is one that I very rarely hear. However, this is the second time this week and it's only Tuesday. I have a friend who's a luddite, doesn't even have a cellphone. You have to call be fore 9:00 AM at home or that's it for the day. Saw him at the local coffee shop and said you really aught to get a cellphone, you could have saved me a trip. He looked at me and said "I'm a luddite." I returned with I know what that is and no you're cheap and cantankerous (sp?).
 
The real dilemma: "One foot on th' boat, one foot on th' dock."

I'd phrase it as Luddites with Insight... whatever comes next is either happenstance or an observed CIRCUMSTANCE.

...you ~have to be~ th' judge... read Alice in Wonderland.

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