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Hiker rescued off B.C. cliffside after taking non-existent Google Maps trail
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Plenty of people fuck up using their own judgement. Hiking can be dangerous. You assume that if something is on googlemaps, it is somehow vetted and/or "commonly used", otherwise why would googlemaps even have a path in the forest/mountain.
I don't know if other people do this, but sometimes they can be a bit of a way-marker.
"Oh, coming from this way, it will be the third house after the trail" -getting directions to a friend's house
"When I pass this trail, I know I'm halfway there"- during a long car trip
They should just put an icon or a pin instead of laying out the trail. It would stop a lot of the questions about liability, and more people would hopefully look elsewhere for the trail details and hazards. It's crazy how often gps-related deaths happen.