Question about a missing road in Nebraska that wasn't on my GPS

I was driving a load from Omaha to Denver last Tuesday, about 2 AM. My GPS showed a straight shot on Route 30, but I blinked and the road just... wasn't there. It was a flat field for a solid mile where the map said pavement should be. I pulled over, checked my paper atlas, and it confirmed the road too. I had to backtrack 15 miles to get around. Has anyone else had a whole piece of infrastructure just vanish like that?

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wyattc7624d ago

Honestly, the idea that a map error could be that perfect seems far-fetched. Both your GPS and a paper atlas agreed on the road being there, which points to two separate sources having the same wrong data. That feels like more than a simple update glitch. Sometimes things just don't add up, and the simplest answer isn't always a computer bug. Maybe there's a reason that stretch of road isn't for everyone to find at 2 AM.

parker_cooper571mo ago

GPS databases get outdated all the time. I had one try to route me through a parking lot that became a warehouse two years ago. A whole mile of missing road is odd, but it's probably just a bad map update, not something spooky.

davidb491mo ago

Yeah, @parker_cooper57 has a point about bad data. But a whole mile just gone? That's a pretty big screw up. My old GPS once told me to turn left off a bridge that wasn't there anymore. That was just one turn though, not a huge chunk of road. Makes you wonder how these maps get so messed up. Someone probably uploaded the wrong file and nobody checked it.