1. Trial of the century

    Some of you may remember the story of this epic dipshit who followed his satnav off a cliff in Yorkshire

    In a rare display of clue, PC Plod has charged him with careless driving and his case comes up next week. I will personally eat my UK & Europe Highways Update Mid-2009 DVD if he gets off.

    At this stage you are, of course, wondering what our favourite online maps site depicts for the road in question, Watty Lane. Happily Bill Chadwick’s Where’s The Fucking Path site gives us the answer

    > clicky <

    Yes, six months after it was all over the newspapers, Google Maps will still happily route your BMW off the same fucking cliff. Meanwhile the much-derided paleos at the Ordnance Survey have, in fact, got it right and show it as an impassable track.

    obviously right in OpenStreetMap too