Google Maps says it's the best way to get around the city?
Does it give you the fastest routes?
Well, anyone who believes that is simply an idiot. A naive person to be politically correct.
I also went through it with my family on a pseudo-uphill road in the Nebrodi mountain range in Sicily with the car, whose width was exactly the same as the width of my car, and I didn't have 10 centimeters to maneuver, .. I ruined the car a bit. I had a fear that I had never had.
My wife wanted to sue Google.
The point is that digital technology, in the case of roads to be traveled by car, cannot replace human common sense. Once upon a time with maps we got lost and asked people and still we arrived at the destination, but the important, the magical thing was the route and not the destination. The route became the story to tell.
Today, however, we get pissed off if Maps takes us to places that are impracticable by car.
But no doctor prescribed Maps for us!
From my experience I have learned that in the internal and impervious areas I do not use Maps, I use old maps and above all I ask the people who invite me to their homes to taste their dishes.
I think navigation apps can be a great tool, or way of getting to know a place, but the issue comes when they become the holy grail. Really, all they are is another way of viewing or interacting with a place, not the truth of a city. The only way for that, like you said, is to actually go out there and experience it. Like a human being.
Google Maps is also pretty terrible for many locations/routes in the mainland USA just a few miles from a Google campus where they write this software. Italy has no monopoly on that.
Oh definitely, it won’t be contained to Italy at all, it’ll be a worldwide phenomenon. Think the fact I’ve lived most of my life in cities shrouded me from the fact.
Google Maps says it's the best way to get around the city?
Does it give you the fastest routes?
Well, anyone who believes that is simply an idiot. A naive person to be politically correct.
I also went through it with my family on a pseudo-uphill road in the Nebrodi mountain range in Sicily with the car, whose width was exactly the same as the width of my car, and I didn't have 10 centimeters to maneuver, .. I ruined the car a bit. I had a fear that I had never had.
My wife wanted to sue Google.
The point is that digital technology, in the case of roads to be traveled by car, cannot replace human common sense. Once upon a time with maps we got lost and asked people and still we arrived at the destination, but the important, the magical thing was the route and not the destination. The route became the story to tell.
Today, however, we get pissed off if Maps takes us to places that are impracticable by car.
But no doctor prescribed Maps for us!
From my experience I have learned that in the internal and impervious areas I do not use Maps, I use old maps and above all I ask the people who invite me to their homes to taste their dishes.
FuckMaps
I think navigation apps can be a great tool, or way of getting to know a place, but the issue comes when they become the holy grail. Really, all they are is another way of viewing or interacting with a place, not the truth of a city. The only way for that, like you said, is to actually go out there and experience it. Like a human being.
Google Maps is also pretty terrible for many locations/routes in the mainland USA just a few miles from a Google campus where they write this software. Italy has no monopoly on that.
Oh definitely, it won’t be contained to Italy at all, it’ll be a worldwide phenomenon. Think the fact I’ve lived most of my life in cities shrouded me from the fact.