Talk:783: I Don't Want Directions - Revision history

92.23.2.208: Addressing the lack of signature... :P

2025-12-26T18:47:57Z

Addressing the lack of signature... :P

John at 05:43, 26 December 2025

2025-12-26T05:43:57Z

68.204.55.141: Added suggestion to discourage extended 'helpful explanations'

2025-09-15T21:34:47Z

Added suggestion to discourage extended 'helpful explanations'

42.book.addict at 19:01, 5 November 2024

2024-11-05T19:01:28Z

172.68.11.243 at 05:30, 28 July 2020

2020-07-28T05:30:47Z

Davidy22 at 11:10, 3 September 2015

2015-09-03T11:10:56Z

108.162.221.16 at 18:59, 2 September 2015

2015-09-02T18:59:35Z

141.101.85.204 at 05:39, 17 June 2015

2015-06-17T05:39:46Z

Weatherlawyer at 17:10, 26 January 2015

2015-01-26T17:10:49Z

108.162.220.23 at 15:52, 9 April 2014

2014-04-09T15:52:50Z

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	One possible 'way around' people who don't want to trust your GPS, is to accept/acknowledge the directions, then _quote them back wrong_. For example, "Okay, so turn left a mile before the big open field, and west onto I-73, right?" because in the US, major interstates tend to be even for east-west, odd for north-south. (My apologies; I have not created a username for explainxcd.) [[Special:Contributions/68.204.55.141\|68.204.55.141]] 21:34, 15 September 2025 (UTC)		One possible 'way around' people who don't want to trust your GPS, is to accept/acknowledge the directions, then _quote them back wrong_. For example, "Okay, so turn left a mile before the big open field, and west onto I-73, right?" because in the US, major interstates tend to be even for east-west, odd for north-south. (My apologies; I have not created a username for explainxcd.) [[Special:Contributions/68.204.55.141\|68.204.55.141]] 21:34, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

−	And then, there is my house… people try to just type in the address to their GPS, but that will put them in an apartment complex 50 yards (50m) south of me, so I tell them “watch the house numbers, the GPS will take you past my house and have you turn in to an apartment complex (or, if coming from the south, continue forward another 50 yards after the GPS tells you to turn left into the apartment complex)” and so many people don’t listen to me, they blindly trust their GPS. Oddly enough, Apple Maps and TomTom get it right, Google, Waze, and Garmin all make the same mistake. Unfortunately, essentially no one believes me when I tell them this, I still get phone calls from delivery people and repair people saying “which apartment is yours?” And I have to explain that their GPS is wrong. Took me months of explaining it to UPS to get them to update their system, but Amazon usually gets it right.	+	And then, there is my house… people try to just type in the address to their GPS, but that will put them in an apartment complex 50 yards (50m) south of me, so I tell them “watch the house numbers, the GPS will take you past my house and have you turn in to an apartment complex (or, if coming from the south, continue forward another 50 yards after the GPS tells you to turn left into the apartment complex)” and so many people don’t listen to me, they blindly trust their GPS. Oddly enough, Apple Maps and TomTom get it right, Google, Waze, and Garmin all make the same mistake. Unfortunately, essentially no one believes me when I tell them this, I still get phone calls from delivery people and repair people saying “which apartment is yours?” And I have to explain that their GPS is wrong. Took me months of explaining it to UPS to get them to update their system, but Amazon usually gets it right. {{unsigned\|John\|05:43, 26 December 2025}}

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	* Agreed: in my area, people may have address "house X", but with "access via dead end Y" [[Special:Contributions/172.68.11.243\|172.68.11.243]] 05:30, 28 July 2020 (UTC)		* Agreed: in my area, people may have address "house X", but with "access via dead end Y" [[Special:Contributions/172.68.11.243\|172.68.11.243]] 05:30, 28 July 2020 (UTC)
	One possible 'way around' people who don't want to trust your GPS, is to accept/acknowledge the directions, then _quote them back wrong_. For example, "Okay, so turn left a mile before the big open field, and west onto I-73, right?" because in the US, major interstates tend to be even for east-west, odd for north-south. (My apologies; I have not created a username for explainxcd.) [[Special:Contributions/68.204.55.141\|68.204.55.141]] 21:34, 15 September 2025 (UTC)		One possible 'way around' people who don't want to trust your GPS, is to accept/acknowledge the directions, then _quote them back wrong_. For example, "Okay, so turn left a mile before the big open field, and west onto I-73, right?" because in the US, major interstates tend to be even for east-west, odd for north-south. (My apologies; I have not created a username for explainxcd.) [[Special:Contributions/68.204.55.141\|68.204.55.141]] 21:34, 15 September 2025 (UTC)
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		+	And then, there is my house… people try to just type in the address to their GPS, but that will put them in an apartment complex 50 yards (50m) south of me, so I tell them “watch the house numbers, the GPS will take you past my house and have you turn in to an apartment complex (or, if coming from the south, continue forward another 50 yards after the GPS tells you to turn left into the apartment complex)” and so many people don’t listen to me, they blindly trust their GPS. Oddly enough, Apple Maps and TomTom get it right, Google, Waze, and Garmin all make the same mistake. Unfortunately, essentially no one believes me when I tell them this, I still get phone calls from delivery people and repair people saying “which apartment is yours?” And I have to explain that their GPS is wrong. Took me months of explaining it to UPS to get them to update their system, but Amazon usually gets it right.

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	If someone insists on giving directions, listen to them; it may mean the place isn't where maps think it is, or they give a road that's not there or something. At least three addresses in my immediate family have this problem to some degree.[[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.16\|108.162.221.16]] 18:59, 2 September 2015 (UTC)		If someone insists on giving directions, listen to them; it may mean the place isn't where maps think it is, or they give a road that's not there or something. At least three addresses in my immediate family have this problem to some degree.[[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.16\|108.162.221.16]] 18:59, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
−	* Agreed: in my area, people may have ~~adress~~ "house X", but with "access via dead end Y" [[Special:Contributions/172.68.11.243\|172.68.11.243]] 05:30, 28 July 2020 (UTC)	+	* Agreed: in my area, people may have address "house X", but with "access via dead end Y" [[Special:Contributions/172.68.11.243\|172.68.11.243]] 05:30, 28 July 2020 (UTC)
		+	One possible 'way around' people who don't want to trust your GPS, is to accept/acknowledge the directions, then _quote them back wrong_. For example, "Okay, so turn left a mile before the big open field, and west onto I-73, right?" because in the US, major interstates tend to be even for east-west, odd for north-south. (My apologies; I have not created a username for explainxcd.) [[Special:Contributions/68.204.55.141\|68.204.55.141]] 21:34, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

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 :No. In Britain GPS systems usually assume the motorways are quickest when in Britain the motorways are usually clogged.
-:It was 2010, so it was before when smartphones got ''this'' popular. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.85.204|141.101.85.204]] 05:39, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
+:It was 2010, so it was before when smartphones got ''this'' popular. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.85.204|141.101.85.204]] 05:39, 17 June 2015 (UTC) [[User:Weatherlawyer| I used Google News BEFORE it was clickbait]] ([[User talk:Weatherlawyer|talk]]) 17:10, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
 If someone insists on giving directions, listen to them; it may mean the place isn't where maps think it is, or they give a road that's not there or something. At least three addresses in my immediate family have this problem to some degree.[[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.16|108.162.221.16]] 18:59, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Agreed: in my area, people may have adress "house X", but with "access via dead end Y" [[Special:Contributions/172.68.11.243|172.68.11.243]] 05:30, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

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	If someone insists on giving directions, listen to them; it may mean the place isn't where maps think it is, or they give a road that's not there or something. At least three addresses in my immediate family have this problem to some degree.[[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.16\|108.162.221.16]] 18:59, 2 September 2015 (UTC)		If someone insists on giving directions, listen to them; it may mean the place isn't where maps think it is, or they give a road that's not there or something. At least three addresses in my immediate family have this problem to some degree.[[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.16\|108.162.221.16]] 18:59, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
		+	* Agreed: in my area, people may have adress "house X", but with "access via dead end Y" [[Special:Contributions/172.68.11.243\|172.68.11.243]] 05:30, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

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	[[User:Weatherlawyer\| I used Google News BEFORE it was clickbait]] ([[User talk:Weatherlawyer\|talk]]) 17:10, 26 January 2015 (UTC)		[[User:Weatherlawyer\| I used Google News BEFORE it was clickbait]] ([[User talk:Weatherlawyer\|talk]]) 17:10, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
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	If someone insists on giving directions, listen to them; it may mean the place isn't where maps think it is, or they give a road that's not there or something. At least three addresses in my immediate family have this problem to some degree.[[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.16\|108.162.221.16]] 18:59, 2 September 2015 (UTC)		If someone insists on giving directions, listen to them; it may mean the place isn't where maps think it is, or they give a road that's not there or something. At least three addresses in my immediate family have this problem to some degree.[[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.16\|108.162.221.16]] 18:59, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

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	[[User:Weatherlawyer\| I used Google News BEFORE it was clickbait]] ([[User talk:Weatherlawyer\|talk]]) 17:10, 26 January 2015 (UTC)		[[User:Weatherlawyer\| I used Google News BEFORE it was clickbait]] ([[User talk:Weatherlawyer\|talk]]) 17:10, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
		+	If someone insists on giving directions, listen to them; it may mean the place isn't where maps think it is, or they give a road that's not there or something. At least three addresses in my immediate family have this problem to some degree.[[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.16\|108.162.221.16]] 18:59, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

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	Am I the only one that doesn't automatically assume the GPS knows best? I always look it up anyway... especially in Houston where there are a lot of roads that the system thinks is "divided," so it will try to route you in a circuitous way to ensure you can make a right-turn in (when in reality it is totally possible to make the left turn). [[Special:Contributions/108.162.220.23\|108.162.220.23]] 15:52, 9 April 2014 (UTC)		Am I the only one that doesn't automatically assume the GPS knows best? I always look it up anyway... especially in Houston where there are a lot of roads that the system thinks is "divided," so it will try to route you in a circuitous way to ensure you can make a right-turn in (when in reality it is totally possible to make the left turn). [[Special:Contributions/108.162.220.23\|108.162.220.23]] 15:52, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
		+	:No. In Britain GPS systems usually assume the motorways are quickest when in Britain the motorways are usually clogged.
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		+	[[User:Weatherlawyer\| I used Google News BEFORE it was clickbait]] ([[User talk:Weatherlawyer\|talk]]) 17:10, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

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	Unless you're using Apple Maps on an iPhone 5S. Watch out for those runways.		Unless you're using Apple Maps on an iPhone 5S. Watch out for those runways.
	[[Special:Contributions/74.140.141.101\|74.140.141.101]] 18:16, 5 October 2013 (UTC)		[[Special:Contributions/74.140.141.101\|74.140.141.101]] 18:16, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
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		+	Am I the only one that doesn't automatically assume the GPS knows best? I always look it up anyway... especially in Houston where there are a lot of roads that the system thinks is "divided," so it will try to route you in a circuitous way to ensure you can make a right-turn in (when in reality it is totally possible to make the left turn). [[Special:Contributions/108.162.220.23\|108.162.220.23]] 15:52, 9 April 2014 (UTC)