Why is not Google’s fault that we got lost going to Mind Camp?

Jim and I were one of the many people that got lost following Google Maps instructions to go to Mind Camp. In our case, it was even worst because we were following Google’s instructions with my laptop being online via my 3G Verizon PCMCIA card but we also had a GPS in his car (a Garmin I think) that pointed us to exactly the same wrong place. Why? Very simple, both Google and that GPS receiver use the underlying data from the same data provider, Navteq. So it is Navteq’s fault that we got lost, not Google.

Lot’s of people in the meeting were claiming that Google is evil (wasn’t their motto “don’t do evil” and wasn’t Microsoft the evil one? How quickly things change in a couple of years….) but in this case is not their fault that we got lost.

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