When we go on vacation or work to a completely unknown region, we always turn to our mobile browser to know we should move by car. OROne of the great references is undoubtedly Google Maps where we place a great responsibility on our mobility. Although sometimes this can be a big mistake, as we have detected in a common trip between Huelva and Punta Umbría.
When we are looking for a new house to live in, one of the critical points to be able to choose it is to know how long it takes from here to work. To be able to determine it, Google Maps is also used, and a bad result can cause we believe that we are going to live very far from the company and we would end up rejecting this home. But on rare occasions we think that Google Maps may be failing, giving it full credibility. But in this article we are going to show you a peculiar situation that has occurred and that will impress you.
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Google Maps does not detect a bridge in Huelva, but only in one direction
One of the most curious cases that we have seen of a Google Maps error is precisely in Huelva. If you are from this city, surely you have made the Huelva-Punta Umbría route on numerous occasions, and a priori it will seem like a short path. And it really is, thanks to the fact that there is a bridge that crosses the Odiel River And what will you know?
But the problem lies when someone is not from that area and does not know of the existence of this bridge. This is the real case of a girl named María, a resident of Seville who wanted to work in Huelva without knowing her. To do this, she finds a flat in Punta Umbría on the internet, which a priori is close to Huelva, which is where she will work.
Automatically, trust Google Maps to know the route between Punta Umbría and Huelva, and saw that the route is not so short. This is because if you are going to travel in this direction, the Google browser does not detect the presence of this bridge and shows you a really long trip inside, which can take up to 40 minutes. This makes it automatically rethink if that floor ends up being of interest to you or not.
Obviously, someone who wants to look for a house in that area when seeing that route to the capital automatically backs out. But the really funny thing is that if we look for the completely opposite route (from Huelva to Punta Umbría) the bridge is detected and shows you a route of less than 20 minutes that is very affordable. This is something that can be seen in the following screenshots:
This is a pretty serious mistake on the part of Google, since as we say in a summer time it can be a real chaos, since no tourist is going to use the correct route. On the contrary, it will make a much longer route that will consume time and also much more fuel, attacking its commitment in order to reduce CO₂ emissions.
How you can get the best route and avoid mistakes
With this failure that we have revealed in this article, it is once again demonstrated that Google Maps is not perfect, although we have it in some senses totally idealized. Like any other application, it may have flaws in its algorithm or in its search system.
In order to avoid these problems, we must learn not to trust a single application. For this you must always check other apps like Waze or Apple Maps in order to verify that the path is correct. Although, we must also choose to view the map and look for an alternative route that is not showing us.
In this particular case, for example, When viewing Apple Maps, the bridge that crosses the river is correctly detected and it does not generate this error. Undoubtedly, due to such a silly mistake as this, there will be many people who have done more than 30 km more to go between two points, only to see that on the way back it can take half.