This is an issue in the spatial domain too. Whenever somebody invites me to their house I ask them "what's the address?" and they inevitably proceed to give me a long verbal list of relative directions: "Go east on highway 10 and take the first exit, then turn left, go two blocks, and then turn right." There are a thousand ways this can go wrong. Errors compound.
Please just give me your actual street address, and Google and I will figure out how to get there.*
*Except yes, Google gets many addresses wrong. Those are the exception.
Google Maps used to be really bad in my then neighborhood which had roads and garages underground and bike lanes and footpaths on the ground level.
For the longest time they didn't even have the numbers of individual houses and treated the whole area as an atomic blob :shrug: A neighbor put the numbers into OpenStreetMap eventually and soon after Google Maps had then too.
For a while they still treated it as a normal road though which means "find route" was still unusable but you could at least use it as a map. Nowadays they have separate entries for the above-ground paths and it works.
EDIT: Please someone write "Falsehoods programmers believe about city planning"
Please just give me your actual street address, and Google and I will figure out how to get there.*
*Except yes, Google gets many addresses wrong. Those are the exception.