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In 2020 a person frooze to death in Syberia due to GMaps giving them a 'shortcut' via long time abandoned road (1). In a small country like Netherlands it also

In 2020 a person frooze to death in Syberia due to GMaps giving them a 'shortcut' via long time abandoned road (1). In a small country like Netherlands it also has issues of being up to date with road works and closures and that information is available well in advance. That looks like a general problem of keeping navigation information up to date. And I'm not sure if such problem has a good solution. Probably some motivation/regulation from a goverment is needed to ensure that map service providers are more reliable. 1 - https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13438396/driver-18-froze-death-road-of-bones-sat-nav-google-maps/amp/ https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13438396/driver-18-froze-death...

dathinab 3y ago
In difference to this case cases like google routing people over ofroad countryside roads (e.g. through the middle of Australia, desert routes, tundra routes etc.) should be something you could/should be able to sue them over. But this case looks like the local government majorly fucking up. In general the maps are updated in many countries based on information from the respective department for road whatever. It pretty common that when random road closures are not in gmaps that it's because the respective official channels didn't publish that information. Like how is google supposed to know when a random road gets absconded, temporary closed, newly opened etc. if no one tells them? And random complains from people using the service aren't really a reliable (or trustable) source.