Street Atlas USA Sucks!
Sorry, had to get that off my chest.
Trying to deliver a truckload of excess Girl Scout Cookies to a charity drop... Street Atlas USA showed the street in the completely WRONG location.
This is not the first time in a long shot that this has happened.
Street Atlas USA Sucks! Is pure crap!
Must use leftist weenie programmers ;-)
...Jim Thompson
-- | James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens | | Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
try this on your cell... mobile.mapquest.com
Cheers
"Jim Thompson" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...
It could be worse. UPS could not find our street. Twice in a row! Upon calling them they said that an address had been given that didn't exist. I told them that it exists since the late 60's. After a moment of silence at the other end I proceeded describing how to get here.
-- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com
"Jim Thompson" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...
Nope, all brainless Republicans there like Donald "I never got anything right ever" Rumsfeld.
Leftist weenie programmers do good work.
If
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Why Conservatives Can't Govern By Robert L. Borosage
TomPaine.com
Monday 19 March 2007
Donald Rumsfeld has been axed. Tom DeLay cut and ran. "Scooter" Libby stands convicted. Michael "you're doing a heck of a job" Brown was tossed. Newt Gingrich disgraced himself. And now the clueless Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales, is surely the next to go.
Why this confederacy of dunces? The conservative National Review cover asks plaintively, "Can't Anyone Here Play this Game?" Time Magazine puts conservative icon Ronald Reagan on its cover, a tear rolling down his face, reporting on "How the Right Went Wrong." But it's not incompetence or corruption-although both abound-that fostered the misrule of this conservative administration. And Reagan would feel not dismayed, but right at home with the follies and crimes. Remember: Reagan's attorney general, Edwin Meese, was disgraced. His national security advisor copped a plea. Oliver North stood convicted. His defense secretary, Caspar Weinberger, would have been indicted for perjury and obstruction of justice if George Bush the first hadn't issued a preemptive pardon.
What is it about conservative administrations that lead them into disgrace and indictment? Incompetence isn't at the core of these scandals-ideology is.
Conservative presidents-from Nixon to Reagan to Bush-believe in the imperial presidency. They assume that in the area of the national security, the president operates above the law, or as Nixon put it, "When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal." They operate routinely behind the shield of secrecy and executive privilege, with utter disdain for the law. So Reagan spurned the Congress when it cut off funds for his loony covert war on tiny Nicaragua. And Bush trampled the laws to set up the torture camps in Abu Ghraib, Guantánamo and elsewhere. Each would seek to keep their lawlessness secret; and that would foster lies, obstruction of justice and ultimately disgrace.
Second, conservatives are acutely aware that they represent a minority, not a majority, position in America. From Nixon to Lee Atwater to Karl Rove, they play politics and exploit America's divides with back-alley brass knuckles-from Reagan's welfare queen to Bush's impugning the patriotism of Georgia Senator Max Cleland, a Vietnam War hero who literally sacrificed his limbs in the service of his country. They excel in the politics of personal destruction, as Democratic presidential candidates Michael Dukakis and John Kerry discovered. And in the grand tradition of the establishment in American politics, they are relentless in seeking to suppress the vote, particularly of the poor and minorities who would vote against them in large numbers.
Gonzales' imbroglio is a direct expression of this. At its core is the run-up to the 2006 elections with the Republicans under siege for the most corrupt Congress ever. The White House and Republican politicians grew exercised at Republican prosecutors who they considered too lax in exposing potential Democratic corruption, too avid in pursuing Republican crimes or too slow in prosecuting reports of "voter fraud," the GOP code for using investigations to disrupt minority registration and get out the vote programs, and to intimidate wary black and Latino voters. Justice was ranking U.S. attorneys based on whether they were "loyal Bushies."
The axing of David C. Iglesias, the U.S. attorney in New Mexico, is the archetype. With New Mexico up for grabs, Iglesias was being pressured directly and shamelessly by Republican Sen. Pete Domenici and Mickey Barnett, the attorney representing the Bush campaign in New Mexico to hustle up indictments on alleged incidents of voter fraud. (Iglesias found no evidence of any program designed to influence an election.) Vulnerable Rep. Heather Wilson lobbied him to bring indictments against state Democratic officials before the election to help make the point that when it comes to corruption, everyone does it. When Iglesias refused to respond, he was targeted despite glowing performance reviews. The firings took place as an object lesson for U.S .attorneys headed into the donnybrook that will be the
2008 election. As Iglesias put it , "main Justice was up to its eyeballs in partisan political maneuvers."Gonzales will surely be the next administration official to fall on his sword. Republican legislators are already questioning his ability to serve the president effectively. We'll see more stories about White House mismanagement and incompetence. But don't be misled. Bush and Rove know how to play this game. They play by their rules, the rules that conservative administrations have followed since Nixon. And that's the real lesson. The phrase "conservative misrule" is a redundancy. The two words mean exactly the same thing.
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Robert L. Borosage is co-director of the Campaign For America's Future.
For many years,they have claimed to use satellite pictures as a reference for their streets. Well, their maps seem to indicate that they do not use those photos. Since version 3.0, i had tried to get them to fix errors that the photos would show i was correct - to no avail. Bridges for a major street than had existed since the 1800's, others redone in the 1930s; truncated streets shown as complete connections, etc & etc. After 3 years of that shit, i gave up. What i suggest: Use AAA maps.
we have a great product over here written by leftist weenies. Its called
I am using the 2007 version with their GPS receiver in my RV. I concur it is not flawless but it is the best I have found.
John Ferrell W8CCW "Life is easier if you learn to plow around the stumps"
Yahoo Maps shows my house on the next street. It shows the company the VA contracts with for new glasses on the wrong side of the highway, and I have seen at least a dozen other mistakes. Goggle maps does better, so I download the maps I need and take them with me in an old Dell Win 98 laptop.
-- Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I\'ve got my DD214 to prove it.
Hell! I've had the post office return to sender marked, "No such address".
Of course I then wrote a letter to the editor comparing postal employees to burger flippers ;-)
Then they came to my door and apologized.
...Jim Thompson
-- | James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens | | Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
I don't know who made the map system in my Q45, but it's dead on... except for new freeways finished this year... you "fly" thru the air ;-)
...Jim Thompson
-- | James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens | | Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
Google Earth shows me as next door ;-)
...Jim Thompson
-- | James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens | | Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
That shows my house worth $957K... seems a wee bit high.
...Jim Thompson
-- | James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens | | Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
Yeah, but aren't you up in the foothills somewhere? I've seen places up there out the back gate of Beale that don't even _have_ addresses! :-)
Thanks, Rich
That's what a Realtor would want to list it for if you agree to sell. Look for similar houses that have sold recently in your area to get a realistic feature. That site explains all the mail I get from Real Estate companies that all tell me my property is worth, within a few dollars. They give you a high price to get a listing, then they want you to agree to drop it a month later.
-- Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I\'ve got my DD214 to prove it.
Map programs, and even worse drivers depending on map programs, often make the news. Doing things like driving cars into rivers, etc.
Mapmakers sometimes introduce intentional errors into their maps/ databases to track piracy, but there are so many unintentional errors to begin with that it's hard to tell the intentional ones from the others!
Tim.
Nah - Your Tax Dollars hard at work in National Sekurety: The cunning plan is that the terrist furriners will go bomb the wrong address :-)
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