Comments on: CNET’s James Kim Suffers Online Mapping Tragedy http://staging.blog.biakelsey.com/index.php/2006/12/06/cnets-james-kim-suffers-online-mapping-tragedy/ LOCAL MEDIA WATCH. The Nexus of All Things Local Mon, 01 Jun 2015 22:23:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.39 By: tony smith http://staging.blog.biakelsey.com/index.php/2006/12/06/cnets-james-kim-suffers-online-mapping-tragedy/comment-page-1/#comment-2705 Wed, 06 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-2705 This is a tragedy and a reminder of reliance on technology. With Cell phones, GPS, Internet, people think the whole world is "wired". We forget there are real wilderness out there that are unforgiving to the unprepared. I hope they will find Kim alive and a lesson that judgment and preparation are always required especially when technology fails.

]]> By: Pat http://staging.blog.biakelsey.com/index.php/2006/12/06/cnets-james-kim-suffers-online-mapping-tragedy/comment-page-1/#comment-2706 Wed, 06 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-2706 It appears that Kim did not use either Google or MapQuest. This from CNN’s report:

"Officers said the couple used a map to choose the road they were on. "They got the map out — a regular highway map — that showed the route," Anderson said.

However, it wasn’t clear whose map the couple used. The 2005-2007 state highway map distributed by the Oregon Department of Transportation has a warning in red print, inside a red box: "This route closed in winter." A Rand-McNally map did not have a similar warning."

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