The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #164900   Message #3951531
Posted By: Mr Red
19-Sep-18 - 05:16 AM
Thread Name: BS: How reliable is Google Earth?
Subject: RE: BS: How reliable is Google Earth?
Several times I have found that Goggle Earth fails at junctions. These were routes I genuinely wanted to traverse. In a couple of cases it let me out of a T junction but refused when I tried the return journey. Admittedly rural locations, but that is when it is most useful (allegedly).

Two different instances where the little man refused trying to drop him on a road. One, the blue line basically missed between two points about 1 Km of a fairly main road - a bus route. I took a picture from the bus and wanted to locate it with Grid References & what3words - in the gap! Another stopped at a T junction and turned into the junction but wasn't available on the straight route! OK that is the route the car took. But the main road? Nowhere to turn round safely at one end of the discontinuity, and barely wide enough for two buses on quite a steep rise. Uley Bury - the hill fort above should indicate the steepness.

Time to report the anomalies.