{"id":27633,"date":"2007-03-13T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2007-03-13T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2007\/03\/13\/out-there-gathering-map-data-one-intersection-at-a-time\/"},"modified":"2007-03-13T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2007-03-13T10:00:01","slug":"out-there-gathering-map-data-one-intersection-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20070313-01\/?p=27633","title":{"rendered":"Out there gathering map data, one intersection at a time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/\"><i>The New Yorker<\/i><\/a> reported some time ago on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/fact\/content\/articles\/060424fa_fact\"> how Navteq gathers map data<\/a>. This story reminded me that, at least as of a few years ago, Navteq listed the driveway of a colleague of mine as a through road. Drivers came up to his driveway, realized that they&#8217;ve been hoodwinked, and spun their wheels in the gravel in frustration on their way out. <\/p>\n<p> He told me that he had reported the error to Navteq three years previously, but they still hadn&#8217;t updated their map data. I haven&#8217;t checked back to see if the data has been updated yet&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Yorker reported some time ago on how Navteq gathers map data. This story reminded me that, at least as of a few years ago, Navteq listed the driveway of a colleague of mine as a through road. Drivers came up to his driveway, realized that they&#8217;ve been hoodwinked, and spun their wheels in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-27633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>The New Yorker reported some time ago on how Navteq gathers map data. This story reminded me that, at least as of a few years ago, Navteq listed the driveway of a colleague of mine as a through road. Drivers came up to his driveway, realized that they&#8217;ve been hoodwinked, and spun their wheels in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}