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ambius
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Message Posted: Jun 16, 2011 11:37:03 PM
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www. gasbuddy. com/gb_map_gas_prices.aspx?z=10&lat=42.535881&long=-83.448273&ft=A&tl=48

maps. google. com/?ie=UTF8&ll=42.523483,-83.442364&spn=0.096277,0.136642&z=13

Sorry that I can't post proper links yet but if you remove the spaces I added, you can then view the maps. Do you see M5 running north at the bottom center of first map? Do you see how it ends at 14 mile road? M5 goes 2 miles further north to end at Pontiac Trail and has been that way for as long as I can remember, or at least for 5 years now. M5 is an 8 lane divided highway in this part of the map. How old are the GasBuddy maps? wow.

One may argue that it doesn't matter because GB is not used for navigation. However, sometimes I do use it for navigating because it's a lot easier than trying to load things into my GPS. I have to wonder how many more roads are missing? Luckily I usually use GB on my android which integrates with the google maps api so everything is updated there. But obviously the website is wrong, and I don't know about the other smart phone apps besides android.



[Edited by: ambius at 6/16/2011 11:39:48 PM EST]
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CampKohler
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Message Posted: Jun 18, 2011 3:15:33 PM
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GB is not the only one. I just heard a PBS bit on how this lady and her boy were using their GPS to go through Death Valley, which took them onto an abandoned mining road. They found her five days later, but her kid was dead.

So this guy decided to work with TomTom to update all the roads in Death Valley and it took them a day or so of work. That's only one GPS provider and one small area of the country.

My sister has a vacation house out in the hilly sticks and she thought she would try her Garmin GPS one time to see what happened. It took her on a theoretically shourter route that for years now no longer goes through. She met a property owner that said people were doing the same thing all the time, sometimes with large RVs that can't turn around and must back all the way out.

Somebody should start a Wiki site to allow the public to list map verified discrepancies in some standard format that would allow any company to use the data to update maps.
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jrsva
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Message Posted: Jun 18, 2011 12:37:58 AM
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The maps are seriously out of date. This has been discussed in these forums for years. The Mods have promised that improvements are on the way but nothing has happened. This link points to one forum topic on the old maps that includes a link to another topic.
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ziyulu
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Message Posted: Jun 17, 2011 7:43:11 AM
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The map of my city shows a road with the old name, which had been changed 10 years ago.
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Message Posted: Jun 17, 2011 5:58:05 AM
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The maps that Gasbuddy uses have a lot of errors.
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