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I once submitted a Google Maps trouble ticket. A park in my hometown was labelled as actually being in a larger nearby town. In fact, Gogole Maps didn't seem t
by larrik 15y ago
I once submitted a Google Maps trouble ticket.
A park in my hometown was labelled as actually being in a larger nearby town. In fact, Gogole Maps didn't seem to think my hometown existed (it's not really a small town, either). This wouldn't be a problem, except that after you've searched and found the location you wanted, the discrepancy would cause the permanent link to fail for some reason, making it effectively impossible to send the directions or location to someone else.
So, I filed a ticket explaining the whole situation and forgot about it.
This was in October of 2009. In February of 2010 (long after I forgot about it), I actually heard back with this message:
Your Google Maps problem report has been reviewed, and you were right! We'll update the map soon and email you when you can see the change.
Then, in April 2010:
Google Maps has been updated to correct the problem you reported. You can see the update here, and if you still see a problem, please tell us more about the issue
So, it took quite a while, but they DID actually look into it and fix it.
I just thought that was interesting, given the usual "Google has no humans in customer service" tales.
- bhickey 15y agoI had a similar experience. I used to work upstairs from Google Cambridge. Adjacent to the building was a small park. Google Maps would instruct pedestrians to walk around the park and cross where there wasn't a cross-walk. I submitted a ticket April 6, and it was fixed by May 7.
- sp332 15y agoI submitted one and it was fixed in a few days. It wasn't that complicated though, a business had just moved to the other side of town. I don't think it usually takes months to update the map.
- dminor 15y agoI've submitted a few over the years - they are fixed much more quickly now.
- sambeau 15y agoYou can go here and fix it yourself these days: http://www.google.com/mapmaker/pulse http://www.google.com/mapmaker/pulse
- chaud 15y agoI had better luck more recently, submitted on Mar 8, confirmed on Mar 17th, fixed on Jun 8th. It was a simple building label on the wrong building.