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   From: jclarkeusenet@cox.net   
      
   In article , proto@panix.com   
   says...   
   >   
   > In article ,   
   >  Greg Goss  wrote:   
   >   
   > > "John F. Eldredge"  wrote:   
   > >   
   > > >Several years back, something got royally screwed up in the Google Maps   
   > > >database.  If I recall correctly, going from one particular town to   
   > > >another in Scotland showed, correctly, a land trip of about 20 miles.   
   > > >Going in the reverse direction showed a trip of several hundred miles,   
   > > >passing through three different countries and involving two trips across   
   > > >the North Sea.   
   > >   
   > > I forget whether it was Google Maps, or some predecessor mapping   
   > > internet program, but I was once told to turn left from one car ferry   
   > > onto another near Nanaimo.   
   >   
   > Ah, no substitute for maps, which can be wrong too. There is too much   
   > confidence in new technologies.   
   >   
   > I took the ferry from the Nanaimo area to visit the Butchart Gardens   
   > once.   
      
   Today I had an 8 AM job interview at xxx yyyy road in Manchester CT.   
      
   My GPS took me to somebody's house.  I tried calling for directions and   
   got voice mail.  So I tried the same address in nearby towns.  The   
   second try actually took me pretty close to where I was supposed to be,   
   but it was a huge gated industrial complex and the guard had never heard   
   of the place I was going.  So I tried other towns and ended up missing   
   the interview.  The gated complex was actually about a half mile down   
   the road from where I needed to be but I didn't find that out until I   
   was able to call.   
      
   Dunno if they're gonna reschedule or not--still getting voice mail.   
   Would be nice to be out of poverty.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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