Led Astray

[bjarvis]

I was going to visit an insurance broker today to see if I could get a better deal on our home insurance and car insurance.

Checking with Google Maps, the office was situated at Veirs Mill Road and Twinbrook Parkway, on the border between Rockville and Wheaton, MD.

Um, no.

Upon driving there and checking the local house addresses, then working my way south-east, I eventually found the broker's office several miles away at Veirs Mill Road and Georgia Avenue.

While MapQuest has routinely tried to send me the wrong way up one-way streets, through median strips, across non-existent bridges and more, this is the first time Google Maps misdirected me so badly. Harrumph.

And the broker's office was closed anyway. Double harrumph.

Comments

[markens]

Yes indeed, blindly following a GPS-recommended route can be very hazardous to your health. One of the incidents here in Oregon a few weeks ago involved a couple who followed the route well into the mountains on an unplowed Forest road. They passed several signs warning that the road is not maintained Nov-May. The signs were placed after the ill-fated Kim family tried to use that same road several winters ago.

[vasilatos]

Weren't the Kims using Yahoo! Maps?

I got seriously lost at night in Cloverdale, CA trying to find my motel, using Google Maps once, just totally given the wrong directions, and ended up out in nowhere...