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Posted by Peter H. Coffin on January 4, 2010, 4:30 pm


On Mon, 4 Jan 2010 20:20:02 +0000 (UTC), dold@02.usenet.us.com wrote:
>> the Rhoads' roads. I declined, even in late May...I just used my AAA
>> maps :-)
> Many moons ago, the AAA map made "state highway 3", look like a good route
> as an alternate to 299 from Redding, CA out to the coast during
> construction on 299. I should have known better when the yellow line in
> the middle of the road disappeared. Eventually, it was just a one lane
> road, with blind curves.
> Around here, there are some maps that show wishful thinking... "it would be
> nice if this road connected through to that one". Sometimes you can see
> what led a cartographer working from sat/air photos to think there was a
> road there, maybe HV power lines, or a dirt track from someone who decided
> to make that shortcut.

Or a planned extension of something to be finished by the time the map
was published, but the budget for it fell through. Or (real case near my
home) a manufacturing plant that has a freight yard very near a long
driveway near two thoroughfares. Some paper maps and some mapping
systems show one being able to go from Bluemound Road, up Badinger Road,
onto the access road that supplies the freight yard then onto County
Road J, saving a couple of hundred yards of travel distance. There's
actually a chain-link fence topped with razor wire at the end of
Badinger Road. (I've already submitted an error report, and I'm sure
it'll get corrected in a future map update. Paper maps don't have much
hope.)

--
"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another,
'What! You too? I thought I was the only one!'"
--C.S. Lewis

Posted by Gene E. Bloch on January 4, 2010, 5:45 pm


On 1/04/10, dold@02.usenet.us.com posted:

>> the Rhoads' roads. I declined, even in late May...I just used my AAA
>> maps :-)

> Many moons ago, the AAA map made "state highway 3", look like a good route
> as an alternate to 299 from Redding, CA out to the coast during
> construction on 299. I should have known better when the yellow line in
> the middle of the road disappeared. Eventually, it was just a one lane
> road, with blind curves.

> Around here, there are some maps that show wishful thinking... "it would be
> nice if this road connected through to that one". Sometimes you can see
> what led a cartographer working from sat/air photos to think there was a
> road there, maybe HV power lines, or a dirt track from someone who decided
> to make that shortcut.

Oh, well, 299 can be a chore even on a good day :-)

OTOH, a couple of years ago I went that way from Eureka to Santa Rosa
because 101 southbound was washed out by a storm. Well, parts of 299
weren't so hot either because of that storm, the trip was extremely
long, and we eventually learned that 101 was opened up very quickly and
we wouldn't have been blocked (but who knew?).

It's nice to have a story to tell my grandchildren...If only it was an
interesting story :-)

--
Gene Bloch 650.366.4267 lettersatblochg.com



Posted by who where on December 30, 2009, 6:52 pm


wrote:

>The shortest route is not always the best route. You still have to use your
>brain.
>http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_stranded_motorists
>GRANTS PASS, Ore. - A Nevada couple letting their SUV's navigation system
>guide them through the high desert of Eastern Oregon got stuck in snow for
>three days when the GPS unit sent them down a remote forest road.
>On Sunday, atmospheric conditions apparently changed enough for their
>GPS-enabled cell phone to get a weak signal and relay coordinates to a
>dispatcher, Klamath County Sheriff Tim Evinger said.
>"GPS almost did 'em in and GPS saved 'em," Evinger said. "It will give you
>options to pick the shortest route. You certainly get the shortest route.
>But it may not be a safe route."

Only serves to prove that even GPS can't fix stupid.

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