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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Foxy Brown on September 26, 2005, 05:39:07 AM

Title: Fake maps fox Shanghai drivers
Post by: Foxy Brown on September 26, 2005, 05:39:07 AM

Drivers in China's largest city, Shanghai - already cursing traffic jams and roads being ripped up in a building boom - face a new challenge.

GPS navigation systems designed to help people reach a destination are getting them lost instead - because some of them use counterfeit electronic maps. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4270922.stm)

Title: Fake maps fox Shanghai drivers
Post by: TheQuickening on September 26, 2005, 06:19:48 PM

Just goes to show that you can't always go with what's cheaper.  Often quality requires you to spend more.  Deal with it.  

Considering the fact that they're taxi drivers, they could always just get a regular map.  Chances are they shouldn't be driving people around if they don't know their way around the city to begin with.