Google maps killed people last year. It used to be that if you navigated to a pin based on lat lon it would genocide the location. Often, in the wilderness this would get geocoded to the center of a very large school district. This led me to being a hundred miles off on one occasion in the Gila wilderness without realizing I had missed where I really intended to go. I am sure this happened to the couple in Nevada that got lost, then got stuck, then got lost and stuck again.

I don’t know why people are down voting you. You are speaking the truth. I learned the hard way in Oregon and in the deserts of New Mexico that if I must use Google for GPS, use it on satellite view and that’s how you can get accurate locations on your pins. But it only works on satellite view.

Otherwise, no joke, Google will navigate you to the middle of a school district, absolutely nowhere near the pinned destination.

I think people are downvoting him because Maps didn’t kill people, fuckin stupidity did

If following Google maps is an indication of “fuckin stupidity,” then there are millions of fuckin stupid people driving around 24/7/365 who will never be in the news because nothing bad happened because Google maps is mostly accurate. But when it’s not accurate, believe me I’ve experienced it, things get scary.

It is stupid when you depend on it during a wildlife trek

When you are in unfamiliar territory do you use Google maps to get directions?

Have you ever gotten off the interstate or been outside of a city? This wasn’t a rare behavior that only occurred on a “wildlife trek”(whatever that is)

If I miss an exit and end up in a barren waste land instead of somewhere inside a city because of google maps my first instinct would be to turn off google maps and make a U-turn. No continue to drive past civilization.