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A cautionary tale of GPS woes

From today’s Irish Times comes a story which shows the real significance and impact of a common Information/Data Quality problem, transposition of letters or numbers.

A Swedish couple holidaying in Italy were looking forward to their visit to the lovely sunny island of  Capri.

Unfortunately a “finger flub” on their GPS put them 650 kilometres north and inland of their intended destination in the lovely Italian industrial town of Carpi.

Oh dear.