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”Google Is Wrong”: Karnataka Locals Put Signboard To Advise Visitors Of Misleading Directions In Kodagu

Millions of people rely on Google Maps, the most widely used digital map service on the planet, to find routes. Google Maps uses satellite images. Nevertheless, due to out-of-date data, GPS and communication problems, and technical hiccups, Google Maps can occasionally be deceptive. Travelers have been misled by Google Maps on multiple occasions.

Locals in the Kodagu area of Karnataka recently erected a temporary sign alerting tourists to a navigation error on Google. The amusing billboard advises visitors to avoid using Google’s directions and to choose an alternate path in order to arrive at the Club Mahindra resort.

A signboard said, ”Google is wrong. This road does not go to Club Mahindra” which was said by X handle of Kodagu Connect.

Local residents, fed up with lost travelers requesting directions after being mislead by Google Maps ended up putting the signboard.

One of the user said, ”Google local guides like me (volunteers) could have corrected the wrong listing. But google has an admin team that love rejecting edits randomly. So let someone from Google fly down and fix it. Till then let people curse them like this.”

Another user commented,”Once we climb up the mountains, Google always gets it wrong. Once I remember how we traveled from kukke Subramanya to Madikeri via sullia. Google made us take a random right in which we traveled for 80+ km realizing we are on wrong and got correct route by local person.”

Following instructions from Google Maps, two German visitors, Philipp Maier and Marcel Schoene, were lost in the Australian outback last month. While driving from Cairns to Bamaga, they came onto an isolated dirt road that took them into a national park that was off-limits to the general population.

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