Online Mapping Site May Have Misdirected Kim Family
Many of us use online mapping sites to plot itineraries through unfamiliar territory. In the process, we’ve often found that road and route information can be inaccurate or misleading — especially where road closure or road safety information is concerned.
From our broheems over at the Wired News music blog, Listening Post:
Kati, Penelope, and Sabine Kim have been rescued, but CNET’s digital audio senior editor is still missing today, a week and a half after he and his family became stranded in Oregon backcountry near the Rogue River. To get to the inn they were staying at from the area they were coming from, navigation websites suggest a route that has been described as dangerous even in the summer, without the snow, ice, and rain that enveloped the Kims, leading some to ask that the route be stricken from online routes.
