United Kingdom: GPS Navigation Leads Tourists Astray

By Larry Habegger | Permalink | No Comments | October 9th, 2008 | Trackback

Aberdulais Falls in the Neath Valley of Wales has become elusive for travelers relying on their GPS navigation systems rather than on maps or their own eyes. The falls and the village of Aberdulais have the same postal code, which drivers enter into their GPS systems to get directions. Then, listening to commands they have been directed into a cul-de-sac of homes rather than to the waterfall, which is just 200 yards away as the crow flies but inaccessible from there. Some foreigners have knocked on doors expecting the homes to be the entrance to the falls, while others have driven out and found the falls the old-fashioned way. Like all technology, GPS navigation systems are a handy tool but not error free.

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