Comments | tlatoani: Disoriented in D.C.

tlatoani

Disoriented in D.C.

Dec 12, 2008 14:20

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elizilla December 12 2008, 22:13:42 UTC

Seems like you'd be comfortable navigating a grid overlaid with diagonal streets, since we have that here as well. :-)

I do not know about the GPS in DC, but it wouldn't surprise me. Maybe they have selective availability still turned on there.

also_huey December 12 2008, 23:43:07 UTC

No, sometimes they're just wrong. Garmin wants you to drive a block past my house and then turn around and come back. Magellan wants you to take the wrong freeway exit and make a U-turn. And this isn't exclusive to DC, either. Last time I was at Zingermans in Ann Arbor, Garmin wanted me to drive around the block forever. After mindlessly doing what it said and realizing that I'd seen all of this before, I turned left and it righted itself.

uplinktruck December 13 2008, 00:27:32 UTC

Yes. Call or write privately and I can tell you what went wrong.

tlatoani December 13 2008, 00:34:13 UTC

I'd be very interested, but I don't have any contact information for you except for your LJ. If you could email me at the address attached to m y LJ, that would be great.

kate_a_boyd December 15 2008, 15:33:03 UTC

DC is always a nightmare to drive in. I haven't been for around 5 years but I'm guessing it gotten worse not better! I don't have much faith in GPS units...they work sporadically for the most part in cities without the modern grid pattern.