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Help settle an argument, !brisbane-ites. If I were out running and shared my location with you, and you saw that I was here:
And suggested to you (who's in a car) to meet me on Roghan Rd, where would you go?
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Probably here? I'm assuming the blue dashed line is a walking path (that you're JOGGING on, someone call the police) and you'd be following that to the road.
Course if I was meeting someone I'd send a dropped pin so there was no confusion, cause I'm like that.
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Yes, that was my intended location. I kinda thought it obvious.
The issue was that I got a call while I was out running. I managed to fiddle with my phone enough to start sharing my location and to notice the Roghan Rd intersection, so I told them that and put my phone away, thinking that would be enough. Then I got another call back a couple minutes later while still en route asking where to meet and stating that Roghan road is "10 kilometres long". At that point I didn't know how to answer because I didn't have my phone out to look at the map because I wanted to keep running to just get there sooner. But I was just perplexed and frustrated at how the answer wasn't obvious.
Someone else I asked this question to pointed to the end of Desert Willow Way, which I thought was weird, but it's at least within spitting distance of what I meant.
This is how I play it...
"I'll meet you here - https://maps.app.goo.gl/P1n5zoKdsHHUib6n9"
Its a convenient place for someone in a car to pull up, it leaves no room for misunderstanding, and if you use Google Maps to navigate to that point and share your journey with them, they can even get real time updates with how far away you are.
That's how I send stuff to friends and family anyway.