{"id":1835158,"date":"2024-11-30T22:42:16","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T03:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1835158"},"modified":"2024-11-30T22:42:19","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T03:42:19","slug":"three-dead-after-google-maps-routes-travellers-across-incomplete-bridge-that-wasnt-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2024\/11\/three-dead-after-google-maps-routes-travellers-across-incomplete-bridge-that-wasnt-closed\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Dead After Google Maps Routes Travellers Across Incomplete Bridge\u2014That Wasn\u2019t Closed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The headline accompanying this Economic Times<\/em> (India) article<\/a> is more than a bit misleading: \u201dGoogle Maps leads three men to death as car plunges from incomplete bridge into river.\u201d Horrifying. The bridge across the Ramganga River in Uttar Pradesh was closed after a part of it had been washed away in a flood several months previously. But there\u2019s a twist. Google Maps didn\u2019t mark the bridge as closed, and did route the travellers across it, but the road hadn\u2019t been blocked or marked closed on the ground either. This wasn\u2019t a case of ignoring local signage and blindly following online maps: local signage failed too. Google isn\u2019t a panopticon: someone would have had to tell Google Maps that the bridge was closed, and I have to wonder whether that happened. But a Google Maps error makes for a better headline, one that goes international, than a horrible local lapse. At any rate, an investigation is ongoing. [Jalopnik<\/a><\/em>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The headline accompanying this Economic Times (India) article is more than a bit misleading: \u201dGoogle Maps leads three men to death as car plunges from incomplete bridge into river.\u201d Horrifying. The bridge across the Ramganga… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[82,387],"class_list":["post-1835158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-map-errors","tag-google-maps","tag-india","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1818682,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/09\/man-dies-after-driving-across-collapsed-bridge-family-sues-google\/","url_meta":{"origin":1835158,"position":0},"title":"Man Dies After Driving Across Collapsed Bridge, Family Sues Google","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"21 September 2023","format":"link","excerpt":"The family of a man who died after driving off a collapsed bridge is suing Google; they allege that despite multiple reports from users, Google Maps continued to mark the bridge in North Carolina, which partially collapsed in 2013, as passable, directing him and other drivers across it. 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