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Niles @ Apr 24th 2006 7:17PM
This has happened in the US too - to tragic results. I talked with a friend of mine recently who works at TeleAtlas, one of the companies that supplies data to companies using GPS. He heard about the death in Montana of a mother and son out on a desolate logging road last month and wondered, like everyone else, why they would take that route. Since he had access to all his competitors' data as well as his own company's, he ran the route they were supposed to be taking and saw that several companies DID plot the route not via highway, but up this logging road. He called the local sheriffs, but they didn't believe him and haven't investigated that angle of it.
Here's the story:
http://www.startribune.com/462/story/351316.html