re: Fucking MapQuest!
I forgot because it's been so long. There was also that one time where Google Maps wanted me to turn down a street that didn't exist, that its own satellite view revealed didn't exist, and use this nonexistent street to reach another road by crossing a deep irrigation canal and raised railroad track that not only do exist but are active, instead of using a real cross street just a km or so south of the imaginary one.
Fucking MapQuest!
Google Maps is frequently & surprisingly wrong when it comes to rural addresses, & it has been since the beginning.
However, today I found out it's also terribly & hilariously wrong with directions, too, on roads the Street View car cased. It told me to turn down a gated dirt driveway, one that was explicitly & obviously a private driveway whats gate was shut to Google's Street View car, to get to another street on the way.
Isn't this why everyone ditched MapQuest?
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