Google Maps updates 'dangerous' Ben Nevis route

Re:Google Maps updates 'dangerous' Ben Nevis route by tialaramex on Saturday July 17, 2021 @04:10PM (#27868428)

Also, a phone is actually a phone. Nevis is obviously not at the centre of civilisation, but the UK is small, so there's a fair chance that somebody with a phone can get working service and call for help if they need it. Good luck calling for help with your paper map.

Every teenager who sits down, and phones mum to report that they're tired and cold and lost and instead of an awesome view they were promised it's just fog everywhere, is safer than the one with a map who is falsely confident this patch of snow is the route safely down when it might just actually conceal a cliff.

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Re:Google Maps updates 'dangerous' Ben Nevis route by ghaff on Saturday July 17, 2021 @04:29PM (#27868569)

I don't think anyone here is arguing that people should discard modern technology because it isn't authentic or something like that. I and others are arguing that you shouldn't be wholly dependent on an electronic map or someone coming to help you because you're tired and cold. (And, by the way, if conditions are hazardous, search and rescue may well elect to wait un til the next day if they'd be putting themselves in danger.)

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