{"id":3124,"date":"2007-05-11T07:23:24","date_gmt":"2007-05-11T11:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/11\/worse-than-no-map-at-all\/"},"modified":"2007-05-12T11:10:41","modified_gmt":"2007-05-12T15:10:41","slug":"worse-than-no-map-at-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/11\/worse-than-no-map-at-all\/","title":{"rendered":"worse than no map at all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been using my GPS to track roads around the wind farm. <strike>I&#8217;m most disappointed with the coverage that Garmin&#8217;s MetroGuide Canada gives. Sure, Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh might not be Canada&#8217;s most vibrant metropolis, but it seems that much of the MetroGuide routing is screwy around the Huron shores. A couple of frinstances:<\/strike><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strike>Hwy 21 around Goderich is about 100-300m of its location, and the junction from Hwy 8 is almost a kilometre out. The GPS does an amusing &#8220;Hey, make a turn &#8230; whoa, how&#8217;d you get here?&#8221; kind of thing as you come into Goderich.<\/strike><\/li>\n<li><strike>According to MetroGuide Canada, you are &#8220;Arriving at Lucknow&#8221; when you&#8217;re on Hwy 21. Lucknow&#8217;s almost 20km from Hwy 21. It also doesn&#8217;t seem to know about routing along Hwy 86, and also tries to route you across an entirely imaginary road near Belgrave Road.<\/strike><\/li>\n<li><strike> Visiting friends near Wingham last night, the GPS suggested I should go back to Goderich via Clinton, a detour of 20km.<\/strike><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strike>I know I didn&#8217;t really need to use the GPS for this (except I now know how to navigate the backroads of Wingham), but some of the map choices it was giving me were downright useless.<\/strike><\/p>\n<p>Helps if you load the right map &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been using my GPS to track roads around the wind farm. I&#8217;m most disappointed with the coverage that Garmin&#8217;s MetroGuide Canada gives. Sure, Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh might not be Canada&#8217;s most vibrant metropolis, but it seems that much of the MetroGuide routing is screwy around the Huron shores. A couple of frinstances: Hwy 21 around Goderich [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[518,1200,450,517,454,516,514,146,515],"class_list":["post-3124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-o-canada","tag-ashfield_colborne_wawanosh","tag-canada","tag-garmin","tag-goderich","tag-gps","tag-lucknow","tag-metroguide","tag-wind_farm","tag-wingham"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-Oo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}