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I've always wondered about the data missing in Google Maps. For instance, when you go to Ingomar, MT and look at street view, the car got to the entrance of the
by pgrote 7y ago
I've always wondered about the data missing in Google Maps. For instance, when you go to Ingomar, MT and look at street view, the car got to the entrance of the town and the data just stops.
https://goo.gl/maps/WVTAChPsBUiRjnoX9 https://goo.gl/maps/WVTAChPsBUiRjnoX9
Did the camera die? Did the car get a flat? Did someone forget to turn something on?
- Twixes 7y agoIt was them.
- ben174 7y agoMaybe they stopped at the bar and got inebriated and forgot to complete their mission :)
- OnlineGladiator 7y agoSlightly related, I was surprised to learn how much Google still relies on satellite data for mapping roads. I found a road (pretty isolated, but there were occupied houses on it) less than an hour from Mountain View that, according to Google Maps, didn't exist (it just ended in front of the woods according to Google - I went for a few miles before Google was able to locate me on a road again). I'm not surprised this is their approach; I am surprised that this many years later a street so close to their headquarters could still be invisible to them.
- DubiousPusher 7y agoA weird thing about the of rural Montana that I grew up in is that Google maps has names of places that no one there uses and then they don't have names that are popularly known.
- casefields 7y agoHoly cow is that area desolate. Gotta take a special type of person to want to pony up and buy this place.