‘X’ doesn’t mark the spot
We’ve all done it. Even men, but they’re less likely than women to admit it.
The “it” is looking at a map for directions.
Maps will never disappear, even if the paper versions of this travel tool do. The world is becoming a paperless society and, sooner than later, maps will be only available in electronic form.
Automobiles are increasingly being equipped with global positioning systems. Several Web sites offer free driving directions and maps.
That’s good.
Have you ever successfully folded a map back to its original shape? Folding a map shouldn’t turn into an origami project.
Anyway.
The Internet still has its drawback as it relates to mapping services.
Ask Tish and Lyle Ashley.
For the previous two years, vacationers have pulled their travel trailers and boats up the Ashley’s one-way street near the shore of Table Rock Lake in Missouri. That would be fine if the 150-acre vacation resort the vacationers were looking for was actually located on the Ashley’s property.
Ozark Mountain Resorts is south and east of the Kimberly City bridge. The Ashley’s house is across the lake, north and west of the bridge.
Directions found on a popular Internet mapping service are misguiding users looking for Ozark Mountain Resorts to the Ashley’s three-story bedroom ranch-style house.
“It’s been going on for two or three years,” Tish Ashley told the Springfield (Mo.) News-Leader. “Some of them are pretty unhappy when they end up on our one-way street. We tell them we’ve tried to do something about it, but you can’t ever get ahold of anyone from (the mapmaker) to get it solved.”
Perhaps the Ashleys should turn their house into tourist attraction.
Maybe open a bed and breakfast.
Brian Sargent
Staff Writer
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