Google maps.

[Belker]

Much as I dislike google maps it does have it's uses.

A fare last night out to the real boonies in Glenvile 20k outside the city with 2 drunk 40'ish farmers in the back and one of their girlfriends who sat in the front giving me wrong directions, eventually I pulled in and got the first farmers eircode, we arrived and one of the farmers and his girlfriend were living there and they asked me to drop the other fella home "around the corner", the fare was €46.40 and they tapped fer a Nifty to bring the other fella home.

I eventually managed to get the eircode from the 2nd fella. "around the corner" happened to be 8.1km away.
I told him; "€3.60 is not going to get you 8.1km" and he mumbled and grumbled but agreed to pay more eventually. The end fare was €64.00 and again he grumbled while paying his share of €14 in coins.

So now I'm left in the bog end of fookin nowhere not knowing which way is North or South and google maps comes to my rescue. I input 'Grand parade' in Cork as my home destination and google maps shows it as 14 minutes away ! HAPPY DAYS !!

[Horse]

I do use it the odd time to get out of housing estates on the northside.  Some of them are huge and built like mazes. It's also handy if your looking for an apartment block by name.

[Belker]

I do use it the odd time to get out of housing estates on the northside.  Some of them are huge and built like mazes. It's also handy if your looking for an apartment block by name.

Indeed, I did have to swallow my pride a few years back when I could not find my way out of the large Kenley estate.

TBF Eircodes are brilliant, much better than the English postcode system which only brings to about where they live, the Eircode brings you to the exact door.

[Rat Catcher]

Why do you dislike Google Maps? I think it's wonderful... we don't need to know or remember anything with GM, everywhere's at the end of the blue line! Foreign clients can even get it on their own phones in their own language for us to follow.

[Horse]

Yea Ken, why do you dislike Google maps? I think it's a great tool to have. Not everyone knows every little nook and craney in their county of operation.  To say you dislike Google maps is like saying you dislike bottled water without giving any reference or reason for your dislikeness.

[Belker]

There is a few reasons why I dislike GM, mainly because I'm still old-school and dislike being told what to do by a robot, secondly because I generally know my own work area better than GM does and lastly because it makes us even lazier as we no longer need to use our brain to find a location, I find that if you find a location once by yourself then you will remember it but if you use GM then you will need it every time.

PS fer Horse, I also dislike bottled water, I have never bought a bottle of still water fer myself in my life.

[Horse]

I'm the opposite Ken. If I don't know where somewhere is I use GM to get there and from that point on I will always remember where that place is. Why don't you like bottled water Ken?

[Rat Catcher]

Ah... wait 'till your memory goes, Ken! I find it great, particularly up above in Dublin with the powers that be changing one way systems, etc at will. I still can't get my head around driving anti-clockwise around St. Stephen's Green. Fortunately, I don't see it that often but when I do it's the blue line on my clever telephone that gets me where the punter wants to go!

[silverbullet]

GM for taxi drivers around Dublin. Now there's something I'd download.

Punters think you're going wrong if  you deviate from the civilian form of Google Maps.

Beaumont Hospital still appears as 24 Montrose Drive in Artane, which should please the residents no end.

There are loads more examples of Google Maps f**k ups.

[markmiwurdz]

You just have to know that you have to occasionally over rule it and you'll be grand.

[Belker]

You just have to know that you have to occasionally over rule it and you'll be grand.

That's about it, I used it once to get out of Cobh which is a maze of one-way streets even in the suburbs outside the town and GM brought me to the cross-river ferry which was closed at 3am in the morning !!

[Belker]

Ah... wait 'till your memory goes, Ken! I find it great, particularly up above in Dublin with the powers that be changing one way systems, etc at will. I still can't get my head around driving anti-clockwise around St. Stephen's Green. Fortunately, I don't see it that often but when I do it's the blue line on my clever telephone that gets me where the punter wants to go!

As the OP suggests it does have it's uses, while the Dunkettle interchange was being done and road diversions changing weekly there, GM was a godsend.

As fer "wait 'till your memory goes", too late fer that, it's gone already !!

[Belker]

..... Why don't you like bottled water Ken?

I don't drink actual water ever and if I was to then it would gall me to pay fer something that comes free from a tap in my home.

[vandriver]

If you download Waze,(another mapping app,owned by Google) you can specify that you're a taxi and then it'll show you routes like through college green etc

[Horse]

..... Why don't you like bottled water Ken?

I don't drink actual water ever and if I was to then it would gall me to pay fer something that comes free from a tap in my home.

I seen some chap putting tap water under the microscope.  Let's just say I would never drink it without boiling it first. All sorts of yokes crawling around it.