GPS directions put her car on a snowmobile trail

[zoesbrother]

[Ray]

Have you visited Cato Car Crash Cash (GC1996) lately? 🙄

[K0rpl]

That’s nothing. In doing the Moscos, we have a problem cache in Manitowoc, My GPS V Vehicle navigation wanted me to board the Manitowoc/Ludington Car ferry for .82 Miles!!!!!!

Um, No, I just walked out to the Lighthouse on the Breakwater….

However, The Car Ferry out of Manitowoc is an extension of US 10 that Picks up again in Ludington, MI.

[hogrod]

You really can’t blame the GPS, since it wasn’t driving…. with that said I’m not surprised this happened. I have the newest Garmin street maps & noticed more than one state trail that is shown as a road.

City Navigator NT 2009.1(Newest)
over by Dodgeville part of the Military Ridge State trail is shown as a road, here: N42 59.639 W90 06.156
Near Monroe part of the Cheese Counrty Trail is Shown as a road, here: N42 35.607 W89 40.573

Navteq is who Garmin uses for data I guess someone should use their Map error reporter so these types of this happen less. I’ve reported errors in the past, but it took about three map update for the changes to show up. I submitted the two errors I mentioned above after reading this forum post.
http://mapreporter.navteq.com/dur-web-external/secured/submitDur.do?userType=CONSUMER&language=en

[gotta run]

It doesn’t even have to be GPS routing…”up nort” there are many “roads”–with official green street signs and everything–that become snowmo trails in winter.

On the Left Side of the Road...

[Trekkin and Birdin]

We were coming home from the Baraboo Dells area last Saturday, and though we know the way, we wanted to see what “Mom” (the nuvi) would tell us is our shortest route. She put us on the Sparta Elroy Trail! And the directions knew it was a bike trail, not a road! LOL

There’s something to be said for maps and common sense. I’d hate to lose my directional senses by relying on these things too much. Did anyone see the episode of ER a few weeks ago where they had a couple come in because they listened to their GPS and drove into Lake Michigan?

[bartrod]

Oconto...the birthplace of western civilization:)

[hogrod]

@Trekkin’ and Birdin’ wrote:

We were coming home from the Baraboo Dells area last Saturday, and though we know the way, we wanted to see what “Mom” (the nuvi) would tell us is our shortest route. She put us on the Sparta Elroy Trail! And the directions knew it was a bike trail, not a road! LOL

These errors do correctly name the trail, but the map shows them as roads so the gps thinks it can follow them. I located this error and submitted it, hopefully it won’t take 3+ map updates this time for the errors to be fixed.

If anyone else has seen any errors like these you should submit them yourself(the link I posted above) or post some coordinates here & I’ll submit them. I like having my maps as accurate as possible.

[labrat_wr]

I’ve had the nuvi direct me to turn 1)into fields, 2)through a deadend onto the highway, 3) off the highway to a small park below, and 4) to turn through someones driveway and house. (I’m sure there were others)

I did not listen……..

Disclaimer : Always answering to a higher power.

[Mister Greenthumb]

@labrat_wr wrote:

I’ve had the nuvi direct me to turn 1)into fields, 2)through a deadend onto the highway, 3) off the highway to a small park below, and 4) to turn through someones driveway and house. (I’m sure there were others)

I did not listen……..

Once mine cried and said stop yelling at me>

[Miata]

>Fish Hatchery Road in the town of Wolf River which then forked onto a >snowmobile trail.

I know this area well after sledding on it so very many times this Winter. I find it hard to believe 1.5 feet of snow however…..

[zo0g]

@Trekkin’ and Birdin’ wrote:

There’s something to be said for maps and common sense. I’d hate to lose my directional senses by relying on these things too much. Did anyone see the episode of ER a few weeks ago where they had a couple come in because they listened to their GPS and drove into Lake Michigan?

That is exactly how I feel about the situation! I don’t use the GPS to tell me WHERE TO GO, I use it to tell me WHERE I AM… and that’s about it. I also like maps and knowing my own way around places.

[Team Black-Cat]

Blondie (Tom-Tom) gets thumped whenever she tells me to do something stupid.

[RSplash40]

Only once did I follow the gps when I shouldn’t have, wound up on a military base in washington dc(or nearby), they had a good laugh about it at the front gate and it broke up their monotony but I had to fill out 3 forms in triplicate…

[Sparse Grey Hackle]

There are times when the “lady” is right and it’s ‘ok’ to drive on a snowmobile trail (that is when the trails are closed at the end of March).

You can visit GC19YQ6 right now and enjoy a very nice trail/road to get to it. The “lady” will auto route you there. Just watch out when the berries are in season for the…..black bears!

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