Navigation route options - are they as useless as they appear?

[Ben73]

Originally Posted by Itsme

I was caught out once following a gps for the first time in a rural area, the road I was following ended up at a farm with locked gates. Me think these gps programmers don't look to see if the maps are updated.
Pays to go into your gps optional settings and do a few tweaks to minimise embarrassment when picking some routes.
Many times I have followed some roads that are lucky to be classed as goat tracks at best.
I always carry road maps for each state when travelling as you cannot beat the old system.

Cheers

I’ve had the opposite. I remember checking google for how long it takes to get from Mudgee to Bylong. It always gave a warning that the route contains private roads and will take 1hr 50 minutes to drive. Fun fact, there are no private roads on that route and it takes 50 minutes. I have No idea where they get this data from.

I just checked it and it no longer says private roads. However it says it takes 10 minutes longer than it actually does.