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Pro tip: I was sure this old map site was useless until I needed a route around a closed bridge
Last Thursday I was driving to a friend's place in Springfield and the main bridge was shut down. My phone's GPS just kept trying to reroute me back to it. I remembered this weird map site my dad bookmarked years ago, OpenStreetMap, and pulled it up on my laptop at a gas station. It showed a bunch of tiny local roads the big apps missed, and I got there using a detour that added maybe 15 minutes. Has anyone else found a legit workaround using some random, non-algorithmic site?
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xena6421mo ago
Keep a paper map in your glove box for exactly this reason. The GPS algorithms all fail the same way when a main road closes.
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sean_ramirez1mo agoMost Upvoted
What if your phone dies too?
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