I love google Maps. And Earth too. Their app that is. Plus I’m a fan of the planet Earth too.
But sometime Maps doesn’t work so well. To wit, this pic.
Disregard the route taking me up onto the gutter and through someone’s garden via a power pole (they have’t been called telegraph poles for about 50 years when the PMG (Post Master General and the forerunner to Telecom and now Telstra) took their cables off the poles and put them under ground).
Quite clearly there are two fairly significant traffic laws I would be breaking by following this route; making a left turn contrary to signage and proceeding along a one way street in the opposite direction. I’m estimating about $500 in fines and at least 6 points of my unblemished license. Of course when approaching this intersection I would have proceeded straight ahead and found an alternate route.
But google Maps is free and in a market economy one get’s what one pays for so as my mother would say; ‘caveat emptor’. Then I would laugh and remember the Monty Python reference in ‘Life of Brian’ where the centurion, John Cleese, lectures Brian on his poor grammar after painting graffiti all over a significant public building. Hil-airy-ass!
Thing is, reporting these errors to google is almost impossible. One would have thought the cleverest guys around would have some sort of automatic feedback function which could be updated by someone in Mumbai. It’s not like you’re trying to fix the past participle of a proper noun. Is it?
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