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Friday, May 30. 2008

Australian Police: Take a Map Along when using SatNav

Reminiscent of this post describing Scottish officials warning ambulances not to trust satnavs, come this story from Australia. After several incidents were motorists were lead onto unsuitable roads in rural areas, The Age newspaper reports:

Police are now urging motorists to take maps instead of blindly following instructions from a GPS.

These warnings will no doubt increase, but it doesn't seem to impact GPS purchases or perhaps common sense.

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Satellite Navigation at 07:20 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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GPS has spoiled us and people would almost rather take the chance of getting lost than having to "decipher" a map. Silly lazy people.
#1 Local Advertising Journal (Link) on 2008-05-30 14:35 (Reply)
We will have the same problem with using a map.

Unfortunately most people assume that the map (or spatial data used in a GPS) is absolute and free of error, rather than an abstract representation of a portion of the Earth's surface as it once may have been at a point in time.

Bruce Bannerman
#2 Bruce Bannerman on 2008-06-02 01:33 (Reply)

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