Why you should never completely trust Google...

jirit

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• Feb 8, 2015

• #1

As we rush through our busy technology dependent world the camino can teach us to slow down and trust our own intuition. For example sometime ago I decided to check out the weather in León Spain using Google and this is the result I got.

 

Tia Valeria

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• Feb 9, 2015

• #2

I don't trust Google, specifically the maps, since I found the hotel we were supposed to stay in was in the middle of Grand Harbour, Valetta (Malta) with a ship clearly visible at the quay side. The hotel itself was about 500-700mts inland so we could walk not swim to it..... However giving Leon Mexico for Leon Spain seems even more extreme!

 

Al the optimist

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• Feb 9, 2015

• #3

Quite true. I typed weather, centre of the UK and got Devon!

 

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mikevasey

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• Feb 9, 2015

• #4

Al the optimist said:

Quite true. I typed weather, centre of the UK and got Devon!

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Sounds right to me.

 

Kitsambler

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• Feb 9, 2015

• #5

The iPhone weather app is equally untrustworthy. Leading up to the start from Prague, I was monitoring the weather there. And thinking it seemed awfully warm for central Europe, but hey, maybe with global warming some seasonal fluctuations are more extreme. Accordingly, I packed for warm weather. Turns out I had been tracking Prague, Nebraska!

 

BamaVol

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• Feb 9, 2015

• #6

Al the optimist said:

Quite true. I typed weather, centre of the UK and got Devon!

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I've met more than a few people in Barnstaple that thought it was the center of the universe.

How wrong could they be? Everyone knows that's Chard.

 

Al the optimist

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• Feb 9, 2015

• #7

And here I am thinking it is Ivar's forum!

 

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NicoZ

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• Feb 10, 2015

• #8

Google's weather for most of Europe is horrific. I get the impression they're using an US source with limited sites in it's database.