What Are You Doing Right Now
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@NattNatt said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller Sounds like a good night! Was it intentional? :')
Nope, neither was intentional. I was looking for a restaurant in the Prishtina square when they marched through.
In Skopje we were walking to the new Macedonia Square where the Art Bridge is and the riot police were heading over the bridge with us. They had parked their paddy wagon or whatever at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and were headed south. Their other transport vehicle came up by the river and we had to wait for it, too.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@NattNatt said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller Sounds like a good night! Was it intentional? :')
Nope, neither was intentional. I was looking for a restaurant in the Prishtina square when they marched through.
In Skopje we were walking to the new Macedonia Square where the Art Bridge is and the riot police were heading over the bridge with us. They had parked their paddy wagon or whatever at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and were headed south. Their other transport vehicle came up by the river and we had to wait for it, too.
Wondered if it was a case of "Ah, Mr. SAM. Your reputation proceeds you..."
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Traffic in front of our hotel has just stopped. Cops with assault rifles out blocking traffic. People honking at them anyway.
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@scottalanmiller Have you started ANOTHER uprising..?
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@NattNatt said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller Have you started ANOTHER uprising..?
Nope, same uprising.
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
You should get one of those Google Cars and let them do the driving for you!
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@dafyre said
You should get one of those Google Cars and let them do the driving for you!
Make sure to put it on super aggressive driving mode, otherwise wherever you're headed to will take an extra 12 hours...
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said
You should get one of those Google Cars and let them do the driving for you!
Make sure to put it on super aggressive driving mode, otherwise wherever you're headed to will take an extra 12 hours...
That is exactly why I don't want one right now
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said
You should get one of those Google Cars and let them do the driving for you!
Make sure to put it on super aggressive driving mode, otherwise wherever you're headed to will take an extra 12 hours...
I'm concerned about using a Google Car given what Google GPS does. Routinely it takes us on things that aren't roads, into dangerous situations and on roads that take twice as long as the normal route you'd just pick by looking at a map.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said
You should get one of those Google Cars and let them do the driving for you!
Make sure to put it on super aggressive driving mode, otherwise wherever you're headed to will take an extra 12 hours...
I'm concerned about using a Google Car given what Google GPS does. Routinely it takes us on things that aren't roads, into dangerous situations and on roads that take twice as long as the normal route you'd just pick by looking at a map.
I've never had Google send me down something that isn't a road... but it has definitely gotten lost in the town square, lol.
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I think the issue that @scottalanmiller has is that he's using it in parts of the world not as well documented as streets in America / UK
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@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said
You should get one of those Google Cars and let them do the driving for you!
Make sure to put it on super aggressive driving mode, otherwise wherever you're headed to will take an extra 12 hours...
I'm concerned about using a Google Car given what Google GPS does. Routinely it takes us on things that aren't roads, into dangerous situations and on roads that take twice as long as the normal route you'd just pick by looking at a map.
I've never had Google send me down something that isn't a road... but it has definitely gotten lost in the town square, lol.
We had it turn us onto roads that were replaced with buildings decades ago just yesterday. Wrong ways on one ways. Down a road that was in such bad repair that it tore the front bumper off of the car earlier this week. It will avoid major highways that are perfectly good and fast and send you down back streets in cities so narrow that the car almost can't make it down.
It's totally ridiculous.
I've been in places where it sent me to bridges that were so long gone that no one could remember them and the area had turned into a shanty town and it was totally unsafe to be there and Google said it was the main route into the city!
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@scottalanmiller How often are google's street cars seen in the parts of the world that you travel in?
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller How often are google's street cars seen in the parts of the world that you travel in?
Never, including my travels in the US. But Google GPS technology is just as common everywhere but it is dangerously poor in many places (most places?)
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But google's GPS technology and Maps are specifically built off of the google cars driving around the roads in those area's.
Otherwise they are based solely from satellite pictures of the region, which would be as useful as you describe.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
But google's GPS technology and Maps are specifically built off of the google cars driving around the roads in those area's.
Otherwise they are based solely from satellite pictures of the region, which would be as useful as you describe.
Oh, you mean the Google cars, not the Google self driving cars? I've never seen one anywhere, including in the US. They have street level views, so it can't be satellite. I'm sure there cars are here the same, more or less, as anywhere else.
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I know paper maps are rough in a digital age, but choosing to rely on technology in such far to reach places where big business doesn't have an interest isn't big businesses fault.
If there was money to made there, then there would be effort to develop those area's and the tech in the region.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I know paper maps are rough in a digital age, but choosing to rely on technology in such far to reach places where big business doesn't have an interest isn't big businesses fault.
I wouldn't call the downtown intersection of a major capital city an out of the way place or a place where there isn't big business. Deutsche Telekom tower is on the intersection, as is the national opera and a municipal renovation project that puts Disney World to shame.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
If there was money to made there, then there would be effort to develop those area's and the tech in the region.
Remember, this is a region that has been Internet than where you are from
I'm in a city four times the size of Rochester, with vastly better Internet.
