Greg Egan on Nostr: "You could always have just written, 'Isla Gorge that way', but then if it didn't ...
"You could always have just written, 'Isla Gorge that way', but then if it didn't say, 'Trust me not Google', they would have said, 'How do they know?', because Google knows everything."
This farmer paid $1000 out of his own pocket for a sign to stop travellers getting lost, when Google Maps directed them across his property towards a tourist spot which could not actually be accessed by that route.
(Google finally fixed the problem after a journalist contacted them.)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-30/grazier-makes-sign-trust-me-not-google-after-maps-confusion/103142386 
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