Thread: Rotten Apple GPS Maps

Could just use a map & compass. Or follow the fracking signs (which the police suggested on the radio)...

And some people rely blindly on their GPS they can't read prominent road signs pointing to Mildura...

Although road signs can also be misleading. There is one in north of Cairns that says "Broome"; had a couple of Brit tourist that wanted to do a quick day trip there from Cairns, until I pointed out that although the sign is correct, the distance precludes a day trip...

Originally Posted by akelly

Could just use a map & compass. Or follow the fracking signs (which the police suggested on the radio)...

That will be commonsense
I cannot understand why they need a GPS to drive from Adelaide to Mildura
I have done that trip in a motorbike and there is no way that you can make a mistake. Just read the signs, as you have said!

google maps > apple maps

Originally Posted by Chucaro

in a motorbike

really....

you stow away in the fuel tank?

Before we had GPS, people did follow the road signs, sometimes got lost, but usually found the place. Now we have GPS people trust it to their own demise and ignore the road signs because the newer technology must be correct.

Originally Posted by malleefowl

Still don't understand why some folk just don't read the more than adequate sinage

It's baffling. Why anyone would turn down Last Hope Track, drive out across Raak Plains past abandoned the gypsum works, before they even hit the sandy stuff is beyond me. It's a few years since I've driven that track but I seem to recall there are even a couple of farm gates you have to open and close at one point. Surely that would have to trigger a "Can't be right" alarm in the brain??

Sadly its not the case.....

The detail of education is no longer high enough to support things like navigation, learning the trade, applying the skillset through knowledge rather than blindly following process.

why?

because its easy... and easy is often used synonymously with better and if its better then it must be the best way of doing things.

Right up till something goes wrong... when a checkout chick/ till dude cant do the simple math that lets be buy 30 choccky bars @75c each and then work out my change from a 50 because the till is down, he doesnt have a calculator and hes not allowed to have his mobile at the register calls his super over and she has to go and get a calculator out to work out that my sum of $22.50 payment with $27.50 change is correct I'm not entirely sure they'd be capable of reading a map, converting the cms-KMS and then working out which way they were facing other than into their own navels.