My GPS screwed me today

Quote: pacomartin

By now, I assume you know that the Career Center is on West Badura on the opposite side of South Decatur. It's one of those broken roads.

36° 3'52.61"N
115°12'37.06"W

I fail to see how in this day and age, they just don't post lat and long for directions along with street addresses. It's not like GPS and computer based maps are a brand new thing. It would save a lot of trouble.

Seriously? You expect them to know the coordinates or how to use them?

A few months back, Anthony Curtis' LV Advisor news reported that Flamingo / Margaritaville was having a job fair, but neither Caesars nor LVA knew where the job center was located.

I started a thread about it here:
http://wizardofvegas.com/forum/off-topic/general/6381-margaritaville-casino-is-hiring/

They had a little segment on 'Top Gear' about these things, asking for veiwers to send in their worst examples. One lady requested to get to somewhere without taking the M5 (UK). It ended up giving her a route easily 20 times longer than the distance from A to B, complete with a ferry ride across the channel and a return trip via the Chunnel. The detour for her 50 mile jaunt would've took her through 3 different countries lol.

First time I went to my best friends house I did it totally on the fly. No GPS, no map, I just wanted to intuit the 1,000ish mile journey from Buffalo, NY to Cape Carteret, NC. MapQuest later said it was a 16hr trip, I made it by the seat of my pants in 17.5, plus got to see some side road sights. Now I try to do every trip in this manner.

I keep my GPS in my center storage compartment when I'm in Minneapolis. I almost never take it out, but it's plugged in. I chuckle every day when I'm 40 minutes into my 15 mile all-freeway commute and the GPS says "Traffic ahead!" from inside the armrest.