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\"Engage<\/a><\/p>\n

Despite being what many people would consider to be technology-inclined, I don’t have a Sat Nav in my car.<\/p>\n

I’m fortunate to have a good sense of direction, my childhood was spent touring the UK (we didn’t have foreign holidays but we did have lots of days out) and I spent the first part of my career visiting customer sites, placing me in the “18,000 mile club” (those of a certain age will remember the company car tax break that encouraged high mileage).<\/p>\n

Generally, I get by with a \u00a34.99 AA Map Book supplemented by my own knowledge of the UK road network.<\/p>\n

But last weekend I was visiting friends in Winchester and, although I knew how to reach their house from the north\/midlands, I was heading up from the south coast and thought there might be a better route. No worries, thought I, I’ll use Nokia Maps on my Windows Phone.<\/p>\n

I entered their street name (let’s say it was Acacia Avenue, Winchester – of course, it wasn’t, but bear with me) and was somewhat surprised to see a map of Manchester. I thought it was an autocorrect issue, so I tried again. “Never mind”, I thought, “I’ll look up the postcode”, so I put the same search string into the phone’s search engine (Bing of course) and got some Manchester results…<\/p>\n

I was frustrated by now. So frustrated I considered using my Wife’s iPhone and Apple Maps…<\/p>\n

In the end, the Royal Mail website gave me the postcode, which Nokia Maps was happy to accept and use to take me to “Acacia Avenue” but there’s a much bigger issue here.<\/p>\n

It’s not about Bing, or Nokia, or Tom Tom or Apple Maps but about trust. When I want to get somewhere, I want to get to the right place. I know, for example, that Apple Maps has some terrible information for the town where I live (e.g. many businesses in the wrong locations and some there that no longer exist). If I can’t trust a mapping service for a locality that I know well, why should I trust it for one that I don’t? \u00a0Similarly, if Nokia Maps is going to send me to Manchester instead of Winchester, I don’t much fancy the fuel bills and travel times if I rely on it to get me somewhere in a hurry…<\/p>\n

The map data will improve – and I’ve suggestfully proposed changes to Google Maps too (a typo in the name of the local Rugby Club is probably not too big a deal though). Open Street Map is another alternative – although someone there reversed some of my edits (so that’s only as good as the community that moderates it…).<\/p>\n

The real point is that, as we become increasingly dependent on digital services, we also need to take stock. There’s an old saying in computing – garbage in, garbage out (GIGO). Maybe technology is not always the answer and we need to rely on a little common sense too?<\/p>\n

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Photo Credit: touring_fishman<\/a>\u00a0via\u00a0Compfight<\/a>\u00a0(licenced under\u00a0Creative Commons<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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