We miss the issues that Maps folks really deal with: from shifting borders due to political machinations to geologic shifts in actual coastlines to roads being

We miss the issues that Maps folks really deal with: from shifting borders due to political machinations to geologic shifts in actual coastlines to roads being renamed/converted/shut down to transit stations and public places which are identified only by lat/long and not addresses (Maps themselves don't really care, but humans like addresses for their mental comfort). People are posting false geo-presence to show up in local search (I'm sure we've all read the NYTimes Locksmith piece; it was posted here multiple times). Competitors submit "closed business" on their brethren in an attempt to make it harder for customers to go to them. And that's just what I heard over beers one night. Like any digital experience, there are lots of folks trying to taint it for their own purposes, commercial, political, religious, or simply to show control and create a lasting legacy by having something named after them. When you think about all the ways this could all go wrong, I think Google Maps does a pretty good job, all things considering.