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This task seems to assume that the travelers/visitors/natives would be OK with receiving bum directions to a place, regardless of whether or not the intended destination is reached. I feel the spirit of the derive in this task, but I see it lost in the execution.

From the description of this task it would seem (this is speculation on my part) that the intention is to provide the unknown person a chance to explore a part of the city differently, not only by (possibly) ending up in a different place but also by navigating with different means, both of these fostered by your given information via maps/instructions/etc.

Is it your intent to inform these persons of this fact? How will you receive feedback on their experiences, how will you know if the information you gave them enriched/augmented/informed their experience of SF in a unique way that they are even aware of, or if it just utterly confused them to a point of muttering into generalization, "damn san franciscans"?

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Well no one has done this yet, and I think the task is open to varying "interpretations."

Many agencies (from the city government to Google) are already doing this task every day - Sam had to fix the maps for The Sweeet Cheat Gone so that they'd at least approximate where streets actually go in Mission Bay right now.

Obviously, doing this task just as a prank is a little boring. Is it better to tell people that you're giving them an alternate or incorrect route? Or is this just selling that new tourism of "the real city" found in an increasing number of guidebooks? If someone wants to find Lombard St and you send them to the crooked part of Vermont, is that a bit more legitimate? I think you could easily argue that people have a better experience trying to find some particular destination and getting lost in the process than following someone else's "better" route, so maybe bad directions are the way to go.

Or is it pointless because people wouldn't notice subtle map changes, and anyone lost would just ask someone else for directions?

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hmm, you have a good point there- where informing them of it would be like the new tourism products.

though I don't think you could 'easily' argue that most have a better experience being lost while trying to find a destination. i for one know many people who have a meltdown when they are 'lost'

so I guess this all boils down to the question we have both ended on, would anyone notice?