Comments on: Cartography http://joncellini.com/blog/archives/2004/01/30/cartography/ Tue, 24 Jan 2012 01:09:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jonah http://joncellini.com/blog/archives/2004/01/30/cartography/comment-page-1/#comment-277 Jonah Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://joncellini.com/blog/archives/2004/01/30/cartography/#comment-277 That has to be really annoying. It must be hard to keep maps up to date though, with all the construction going on everywhere. I've had a similar problem, though not as annoying as yours. I bought a "new to me" used car when I moved up to Hokkaido and it was equipped with GPS, along with a little monitor showing your position and everything. I thought that was pretty cool for an eight year old car. The only problem is, the GPS software is also eight years old thus everything is out of date. My apartment building is only five years old and some of the roads around the area are rather new, so they aren't included in the GPS software. Yesterday when I was driving back home the GPS was telling me that I was driving in the middle of a forest. It's pretty funny but I have realized that it's usless since it's so out of date. That has to be really annoying. It must be hard to keep maps up to date though, with all the construction going on everywhere. I’ve had a similar problem, though not as annoying as yours. I bought a “new to me” used car when I moved up to Hokkaido and it was equipped with GPS, along with a little monitor showing your position and everything. I thought that was pretty cool for an eight year old car. The only problem is, the GPS software is also eight years old thus everything is out of date. My apartment building is only five years old and some of the roads around the area are rather new, so they aren’t included in the GPS software. Yesterday when I was driving back home the GPS was telling me that I was driving in the middle of a forest. It’s pretty funny but I have realized that it’s usless since it’s so out of date.

]]> By: Jon http://joncellini.com/blog/archives/2004/01/30/cartography/comment-page-1/#comment-278 Jon Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://joncellini.com/blog/archives/2004/01/30/cartography/#comment-278 Hey Jonah, Honestly I think it would be more annoying to have a in-car GPS system be out of date. I would think that is something you could get updated content for. Last year when I was in California for LinuxWorld we had a similar GPS snafu in the streets of San Francisco. I guess because of all of the hills we were having problems getting a good signal so our car kept showing up off the roads on the map. Hey Jonah,

Honestly I think it would be more annoying to have a in-car GPS system be out of date. I would think that is something you could get updated content for. Last year when I was in California for LinuxWorld we had a similar GPS snafu in the streets of San Francisco. I guess because of all of the hills we were having problems getting a good signal so our car kept showing up off the roads on the map.

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