Trusting Google blindfolded

Or maybe I should have picked a title like “do not trust Google Maps picking a route for you”. It was my first time using Google Maps when I was driving between different spots during the vacation. It was always OK to use it in the city or at the main roads interconnecting cities. With this experience I had a trust using Google Maps on the smartphone so that I did not even need to follow road signs.

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Ending up in the field with pomegranate trees  following this route for Dalyan to Sarıgerme made me notice that Google may have erroneous data too.

Things started to go wrong at step 3, seeing that the road is not as straight as Google thinks so; but it was heading where Google promised to. I kept following and ended in the field. Too bad I was not driving a 4WD to follow Google's route comfortably.

It was not Google's mistake actually as Google is working with local providers for maps, like this map was provided by BaşarSoft. Checking the web I noticed I am not the only one having this problem.

This little experience made me notice there is still a lot to depend on online maps blindfolded.