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Capri or Carpi? GPS Error Sets Couple on 400-Mile Detour in Italy
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by Jordan Yerman | July 30, 2009 at 09:28 am
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The difference between Capri and Carpi: one transposition and 400 miles. A GPS error led a Swedish couple to Carpi, northern Italy, instead of the island of Capri (for which they'd presumably need a ferry). This story hit the web the other day as a GPS-error story, but I suspected user error... sure enough, the couple had mistyped "Capri" as "Carpi", and, as Carpi is a real place, the Quixotic road trip began...
The middle-aged couple only discovered their error when they asked staff in the local tourist office how to get to the island’s famous Blue Grotto.
You'd think that they'd immediately wonder how they managed to arrive at an island without crossing any bodies of water, but evidently the Blue Grotto's nonpresence was the tip-off.
Once they realised their mistake, the couple got back in their car and headed south, the official added.
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at 17:23 on July 30th, 2009
I had similar errors like this. however, one should notice and take a look at the map as well. Good old Map and compass are irreplaceable.
at 14:28 on September 17th, 2009
Dear Patricia, this is not an error of the map. This is CARPI instead of CAPRI. The funny thing is that they asked the tourist office. Imagine you are in the middle of a huge plain, no sea, just crop and you're wondering where the famous "grotta azzurra" sea cave is.