Re: OT

Charlie Gibbs <[email protected]>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2026-08-20, rbowman <[email protected]> wrote:

> Much of the work I did involved GIS both to locate the call for service 
> location and to provide routing for the emergency responders. part of the 
> task for a new site was reviewing the GIS data they submitted. Errors 
> included different segments of a street with the same street numbers, 
> completely different streets with the same name, street segments that 
> failed to connect to an intersection and were not routable, and so forth. 

The street we live on is a one-block segment, terminated by a school
at each end.  On the other side of one of the schools the street
continues for another block.  It took a while for Google Maps to
get that second segment properly into its database.  From time to
time I would see a delivery van stopped outside our house with a
confused driver trying to figure out why the house numbers didn't
match up.  I helped more than one such driver on his way.

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