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Online Maps Updated After Disaster

Posted May 04, 2007 8:59 AM

From MSNBC.com: Tech News & Reviews:

SAN FRANCISCO - If you went to Google, Yahoo, AOL or another mapping site to plot a route from San Francisco to Oakland in the hours after an oil tanker exploded, they would have sent you driving over a collapsed overpass engulfed in flames. But within 48 hours of Sunday's accident, engineers at the major mapping sites had reprogrammed with alternate routes that added only a couple minutes to estimated drive times. That's a big improvement from a couple years ago, when routing algorithms were only updated sporadically.

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05/23/2007 9:09 AM

Which reminds me of a question: all the political fool's and their followers, it seems, could not find anything to say about the accident except "how lucky it was" that the driver was not there during commute time...never realizing how illogical such a statement was; not realizing that the correct statement would have been: ...how "unlucky"...that the driver was not there during commute time. Why is this so? And why don't news reporters take such responders to task about such inane statements and platitudes--which only go to show that the politicians must expect their constituents are as light minded as their representatives?

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05/25/2007 6:40 AM

That is ridiculous. How could it be lucky if all the extra damage and injury on crowded overpasses and below. those politicins and reporters are obviously more perceptive than you. Sure thay don't want your votes.

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