This is a true general statement about the existence of Google.
They do put a lot of “access roads” that are not open to the public.
My new favorite is google maps telling me a route is shorter but it tells me it’s a toll road. But in reality, it’s a ferry across a river that’s only available certain hours during part of the year.
Try OpenStreetMap, if it’s wrong you can edit the access rights yourself
Do you know of a good OSM mobile client for Android?
OSMAnd, Organic Maps, Magic Earth (my favourite but not open source)
Organic Maps
Lmao I experienced the same thing a few years ago, except it’s not a ferry, but an actual bamboo raft operated by the locals.
The reason we often have to tell visitors to not trust Google when trying to reach us, is that it often takes them into a really steep valley that is densely vegetated with prickly plants on both sides on the road, with water accumulated at the bottom in the winter and really large and long holes from the water running down the hills. If they don’t get the hint that maybe google isn’t always giving the best suggestion they risk getting stuck or having their car damaged.
At least with open street map, you can login to openstreetmap.org/edit and mark the bad road as private/gated or even delete it entirely. I did it on a bad road segment in my neighborhood and ride-sharing drivers no longer made wrong turns there (Grab apparently uses OSM instead of Google Maps data).
You can actually do this with Google maps too. It can take time for them to actually make changes though
You can… IF other people do it too.
How? Every single adress is wrong on google for the whole muncipiality since they standarized the road numbering 3 years ago.
I’m always divided about it. At one hand, I want to help people not getting lost, but at the other, I don’t want to contribute to google.
Crowdsourcing is nice but I’m not happy about the “don’t mark temporary hindrances” thing in OSM, some of them last for months and I can’t warn others. Sometimes I even forget the hindrance myself and feel real
unsmartdumb.Nice. The only place I know uses Grab is Vietnam and other se asian countries like maybe Indonesia
I may not longer live in Vermont but man I’ve been wanting to get Google maps updated on all the roads that no longer exists also now I live in Florida I’m finding none of the bike lanes are recognized
“when there’s a sign, there’s history”
Should have bought a squirrel.
I get that reference. Rat Race!
I’ve seen a ton of these sort of signs on the national “funny signs” group. Usually they have shitload of drama in the comments.
I love it
I’m impressed by the kerning on that sign given that it’s entirely handwritten in a large font.
You can submit edits to Google Maps. I’ve done it on a handful of roads in our neighborhood and they were approved within a few weeks…
I’ve done it a few times, usually by your fifth submission about an issue over a year or two they finally don’t say no we’re right you are wrong and edit the driveway\farmers field\60 meter drop into a gully to not be drivable.
I guess we had different experiences, these were relatively new areas where the neighborhood was developed after the map and it didn’t seem to be an issue. I suppose the satellite view probably confirmed it easily.
mine was extremely old roads, had lived there all my life and noticed that two roads in the country with entirely different names were divided by a gully about 200 meters wide and 60 meters deep with NO road or bridge EVER existing there through it. but google argued it was really a road.
other was within 2km of that area, a road into a farmers field.
i sorta suspect they were items added in to spot if someone’s stealing googles proprietary map data. like how a dictionary company will throw in a few random fake words to see if anyone copies their text and publishes it as their own.
That sign has so many practical applications!
That’s why Apple Maps, HERE WeGo and OpenStreetMap exist.
Did you just unironically plug Apple maps oh lordy
It used to suck, but the only people who say it still does are the people who haven’t used it recently. Apple Maps is amazing now.
I must be lucky. Even at the height of its notoriety, I haven’t had any trouble with Apple Maps (yet).
The weirdest shit GPS/the post office has done to me in terms of addresses is a certain two small towns I have to verify the address is in the correct city, because for some reason a couple neighborhoods in one of the towns, which is like 20 miles away from the other, have an address that says the other city’s name and not the one they are actually in. If you go to the address and it’s the wrong city, there’s a good chance you’ll just be taken into the middle of an empty field.
🥀
Hey Lois remember that one time I drove my car off a bridge because the map told me to?
They are consistently horrible at navigating downtown Providence.
