[failTide]

Similar story. Was in a caravan with friends on a road trip and apple maps had us going onto a dirt road to save time. We go overlanding a lot, so dirt roads aren't weird, but we decided to stop and double check before proceeding too far on the road.

About a minute later, a border control agent pulls up next to us and starts with the standard interrogation. Turns out, apple maps had been telling people to use a dirt road to circumvent a border control checkpoint - which according to the officer was a felony. We proceeded back onto the pavement and through the checkpoint where they waved us through. The dirt road wouldn't have been faster at all, so it was puzzling why it was giving those directions.

[danaris]

One possibility that occurs to me is that various people might have reported the border checkpoint to Apple Maps as a blockage in the past, in order to get it to give them a route around it.

Not that this absolves Apple, of course, since they should absolutely be checking these things better.