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Originally Posted by Locke
What the hell is 'Maptown?' 
And how do they plan to sell Maps online? Go toe-to-toe with Google Maps? Which is free? |
It took 3 days into my recent trip to Nicaragua to both regret not going to Maptown and grabbing a paper map before I left and also to decide I will boycott Google Maps going forward.
Apple maps has the courtesy to say "I don't know". Google Maps will confidently send you to your peril.
Example 1 of 10, Google Maps happily sent us into a dry river bed that it deemed a "road" in a FWD compact Suzuki. Turn around you say? Not possible, because an earlier descent was so steep we skidded down and would never make it back up. I felt like Jeremy Clarkson trying to keep my speed up in sand that was way too deep for that car:
