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If you use Google Maps on the regular, you'll be used to a solid blue line (yellow or red if there's traffic) on the car's route. I don't remember the first tim
by p_j_w 5y ago
If you use Google Maps on the regular, you'll be used to a solid blue line (yellow or red if there's traffic) on the car's route. I don't remember the first time I came across the dotted line, but I certainly don't remember having a hard time figuring out what that meant. Apparently this isn't the case for everyone, though.
Also, I'm a nove hiker at best, but even I know that there's essentially zero hikes where the shape of the trail is a nice arc across the map like the one in the story. I'm legitimately baffled that anyone would have thought that was a suggested path to the peak.
- shock-value 5y agoThe dotted arc could easily be interpreted as “this isn’t the exact path but there is a navigable walking path in the general direction of this line” which is just as unhelpful and potentially dangerous.
- asdfasgasdgasdg 5y agoYou run into the dotted line a lot if you use mass transit directions.