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<blockquote data-quote="brownIEman" data-source="post: 316232" data-attributes="member: 14596"><p>That is not a failing in GPS. GPS is a proven technology, the military has been using it for decades, as have hikers, surveyors, pilots, sailors, etc. etc. etc. </p><p></p><p>When you are making a delivery, the GPS knows where on the earth you are. The problem is, how in the heck does the system know where on the earth 2357 E Brownstone Place is to make the check? The satellites cannot tell it that. That information has to be put into a database by someone, at some point. Much of it comes from historical delivery data. It could be UPS got bad coordinate data from a third party such as the USPS. It could be that a Dispatch Supervisor or IE coordinator input incorrect information in a map matching program. It could also be that you, or a cover driver, or a driver who had the route before you, got five miles away and realized they forgot to stop complete that last stop at 2357 E Brownstone Place, and then did so, basically telling the system that address is 5 miles from where it actually is.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="brownIEman, post: 316232, member: 14596"] That is not a failing in GPS. GPS is a proven technology, the military has been using it for decades, as have hikers, surveyors, pilots, sailors, etc. etc. etc. When you are making a delivery, the GPS knows where on the earth you are. The problem is, how in the heck does the system know where on the earth 2357 E Brownstone Place is to make the check? The satellites cannot tell it that. That information has to be put into a database by someone, at some point. Much of it comes from historical delivery data. It could be UPS got bad coordinate data from a third party such as the USPS. It could be that a Dispatch Supervisor or IE coordinator input incorrect information in a map matching program. It could also be that you, or a cover driver, or a driver who had the route before you, got five miles away and realized they forgot to stop complete that last stop at 2357 E Brownstone Place, and then did so, basically telling the system that address is 5 miles from where it actually is. [/QUOTE]
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