My GPS screwed me today

I had an interview at the Cosmopolitan today, their career center is off site on Badura Avenue. I put in the address on my phone which uses google maps. The GPS took me to a vacant field.

I called and the lady said it happens all the time and rescheduled me for tomorrow and told me where the place was exactly. This is my gripe of the day so far- technology has failed me!

Here is where I ended up, if you use the street view you can see a nice piece of desert.

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Just a few days ago, using Google Maps, the directions to a restaurant said to get on the ramp to the highway and then drive over some grass and up a hill to get to the restaurant. I am horrible with directions, but my minute amount of driving instinct told me to find another way.

When going to new places I like using the satellite view so that I can get an idea of what the building looks like, where to find driveways, and where to park.

Wow. Scroll around, and you'll see that W Badura Ave is broken into FIVE pieces - and that E Bandura Ave is in two pieces. Also note that they are spelled differently, but appear to be, more or less, along the same line.

Sorry about the GPS mix-up, but how far away was the random field from the actual place?

Oh... and good luck with the interview tomorrow.

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Sorry about the GPS mix-up, but how far away was the random field from the actual place?

Across the patch of desert was a business park, they told me on the phone to take Decatur to 215 and it is near there. It is kind of annoying because I am a few blocks from Decatur, ugh....

One of my favorite GPS errors. Meeting my girlfriend-at-the-time at a restaurant I had never been to. This is not out of the way, but in a very urban area. Anyway, I had put the address into the GPS and driving along. The GPS says "Take the ramp for exit 37, then". And that's all it says. Usually it says to stay right or left or something, but it just ends with "then". So, I get on the off-ramp, and about half-way down the ramp the GPS says "You have arrived at your destination." And, obviously, there are no restaurants half-way down a freeway off-ramp.

The most interesting part to me is the first GPS message, because you would think it would have said "Take the ramp for exit 37, then you will arrive at your destination" or "your destination will be on the right". But for it to just stop at "then" really made me giggle.

Long funny story, but the short version is, the GPS sent me down the wrong road. On the screen, the road ended, although it actually went further.

Once I got past the 'end' of the road, she told me to make a U-Turn. Why did she send me down that road to begin with?

My favorite is "Turn Left" and there is a median there.