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In fairness, Google Maps did not invent these names itself. It merely collected by rôte and systematized, without any quality control or fact checking, names i
by JdeBP 8y ago
In fairness, Google Maps did not invent these names itself. It merely collected by rôte and systematized, without any quality control or fact checking, names invented and published by other people.
This is a general problem with deriving stuff indiscriminately from information supplied by unidentified people.
Wikipedia has a whole bunch of similar inventions, made up by people writing them into Wikipedia initially. (http://jdebp.info./FGA/legacy-encoding-has-no-definition.html http://jdebp.info./FGA/legacy-encoding-has-no-definition.htm... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_citogenesis_incidents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_citogenesis_...) And there is a fair amount of stuff that survived in Wikipedia for a long time, based solely upon a mention by other, highly credulous, WWW sites.
Google Web famously gives greater credence to some common spelling errors.