Gino’s Auto Body Shop
First, I recommended this place. Then I’ll mention the bad aspect of online maps.
This is Gino’s address: 4360 RT-27, Princeton, NJ 08540
The image (click for full picture) shown below is from google map, which says the green start sign is the place for Gino’s. I liked google and preferred trusting it. However, someone else told me it must be a little more north of it. So I drove along north route 27 and finally found it somewhere a little before reaching the red stop sign.
I was not quite satisfied with Gmap’s behavior, and I have complaint it when we visisted Puerto Rico. But I don’t know why it’s so bad even within US continental states. And I am also wondering how google couldn’t handle this correctly. So I tried map services of Yahoo, AAA. They all gave the same wrong place as google gave. And I also had taken a look at the direction from Gino’s site. Wrong place again(as the image below and it’s powered by microsoft)! As I claimed, the right place should be above the Promeade Blvd.
So it seems clear that the problem is not from these online map providers, but really from the data/resources providers. The online map providers should push the data providers to do a better job.
And I did one more step of investigation: I tried to search the address of: 4359 RT-27, Princeton, NJ 08540. The result is the Red Stop sign of the google map. I hope and guess the odd numbers are properly displaced, but somehow the even numbers are erroneously shifted.
This is the link for google map of from 4359 to 4360 along RT-27.
Inspection passed at OHeHLium liang~ on 09 Nov 2006 at 8:08 pm
[...] Reinspection: Passed As you see, that’s why I am recommending Gino’s Auto Body Shop. Actually, the Gino’s is pretty popular here and folks told me usually it would take a month to wait after the appointment. So I just went there for an estimate of costs (fortunately, you don’t have to wait just for estimate) and I wanted to decide whether to keep our old Taurus any longer, have it fixed or buy another one. After the nice mechanic took a look at it and made sure all I wanted was to pass the inspection, he just let me wait for a few minutes and had the bump screwed. I wanted to show some appreciation then, but he simply said to me that, ‘it is free and just come to us if you have other problems’. So I would like to advertise the body shop here and in the last post I showed their right position in the map. Now, let me say something about our car. This is the 2nd time for it to pass the bi-annual auto inspection. Last time, it failed the 1st time too with a little brake problem. But otherwise, I think it was a good car back then. Now, my ford Taurus is aging: first, I am now becoming unease to be the first one at the red-light line even with a V-6 3.2L engine, as my car doesn’t speed up as quickly as it used to be; second, for some reason, the coolant is also easily gone and I have to refill it more frequently; third, it produces much louder noise now. But I don’t want to buy another car now and have to go to the inspection and I need it to pass. Interestingly, eexcept the bump, other problems didn’t catch inspectors’ attention. Anyway, the life of our Taurus now will be stretched for another 2 years. I hope by then, there will be some nice cars in the market alternative to those jp cars. [...]