The unique iPhone didn’t characteristic GPS so Google Maps used cell-site triangulation to find out the situation of the person. By the point Android 2.0 debuted on the Motorola DROID in November 2009, turn-by-turn instructions have been a free characteristic for Android customers. When Apple Maps changed Google Maps on iOS in December 2012, Google Maps with free turn-by-turn instructions was obtainable without cost from the App Retailer. Since then, Google has turned Maps into the Swiss Military Knife of navigation apps by including options that do extra than simply get you from level “A” to level “B” rapidly and safely.
For instance, while you get to level “B” Google Maps will inform you the place you need to keep the evening, get pleasure from a meal, discover leisure and landmarks, seize a espresso, and extra. However once more, the recognition of the app all will depend on how precisely it is going to take you to your vacation spot. Whereas Google Maps has an excellent document, often it has taken customers out of the way in which and even the flawed method. This has occurred once more as a whole lot of vacationers in India counting on Google Maps to get them to the Kollur Mookambika Temple ended up 60 miles away.
Utilizing Google Maps to get to Kollur Mookambika Temple in India is getting folks misplaced. | Picture credit-Mangaluru Taxi
Apparently this is a matter that has led drivers to by chance arrive at a village known as Nandalike as a substitute of pulling as much as the Temple. However it seems that increasingly more Google Maps customers are ending up within the distant village. The problem is brought on by a easy error that Google can simply repair however for some cause, it hasn’t. The app is labeling a smaller temple devoted to Goddess Mookambikain in Nandalike as Kollur Mookambika Temple and is sending drivers there by mistake.
You possibly can see that the names of the 2 temples are comparable sufficient to be complicated however this should not be such a tough downside to deal with. To point out you ways one mistake in Google Maps can have a big impression, one Nadalike resident mentioned that “a whole lot of automobiles” arrived within the village during the last three months and acknowledged that Google must right this downside. Even whereas utilizing Google Maps, drivers heading to the Kollur Mookambika Temple want to observe the highway indicators to verify they’re on course.
“We traveled from Hyderabad in direction of Udupi, following Google Maps, solely to finish up in Nandalike. It’s particularly problematic when this occurs late at evening. This confusion has brought about us appreciable inconvenience.”-Chandan, a vacationer utilizing Google Maps
“For the previous three months, a whole lot of automobiles have been misdirected to Nandalike. The entry within the map must be corrected to alleviate the difficulties confronted by vacationers,” mentioned a neighborhood resident dwelling in Nandalike. Though a number of vacationers have reported the issue to Google, the inaccurate labeling of the smaller temple has not been mounted and continues to today.
