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Slight modifications to MetroFi’s map appear

Posted by Russell Senior on 8 January 2008

Sometime on Sunday or Monday (January 6-7, 2008), a few new changes to the MetroFi map appeared:

  • The SkyPilot map location at SE 9th and Division is removed and replaced with one at SE 8th and Division, however:
    • They still claim it is “In service” and had it been operating during our recent survey (Dec 19-30, 2007) we surely would have noticed it had it moved a single block;
    • The latitude/longitude they provide for the new location is out near Estacada, which seems rather unlikely.
  • New SkyPilots appear on the map (the SkyPilots themselves were there already) at three locations we had noted in the survey summary we posted recently:
    • SE Hawthorne Blvd and 92nd (they repeat a typo of “BL VD” from another entry);
    • SE Stark and 76th; and
    • SE Stark and 90th.
  • The missing status that we had found at the SW 1st and Meade location has been fixed to read “Coming soon”.

It is important to say that Unwire PDX Watch is not out to get MetroFi. All we are out to get is The Truth. As far as we can tell, substantial errors remain uncorrected (and new ones have been introduced) on the MetroFi map.

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  1. russell Says:
    January 8th, 2008 at 6:33 pm

    I drove by the SE 8th and Division location today and did find an operating SkyPilot nearby. It is on SE 8th a little south of Division Place, in front of the dairy facility. I am confident that it was not operational during the December 19-30 survey.

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