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Trucks aren't the only issue though -- around here there are roads that deadend, but have an unbuilt easement or farm road (on private property, but mapped for whatever reasons) making them appear like a nice shortcut to GPS algos. This is a bigger problem for highway combos (nowhere to turn around), but still can create a lot of unnecessary traffic on crummy little roads in the summer when there's a lot of non-locals tooling around glued to their screens.
"Local Traffic Only" would work I suppose, but that one gets abused by local governments when they get too many complaints from residents about people using crummy little roads that actually go through as shortcuts, and also depends on one's definition of "local" -- specifically calling out GPS issues would be useful I think.
If the map itself is wrong, putting up extra signs is only patching the symptoms. Involved people—the owner, the municipal government, and even other inhabitants of the municipality if necessary—need to submit corrections to the mapping service in order to fix the actual disease. (In Google Maps you can just right-click and "report a data problem", and I vaguely recall reading somewhere that municipal governments also have special authority to upload information directly (which indeed may have been the source of the bad map in the first place). I don't know anything about Apple Maps.)
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