As mush as it pains me to give google the benefit of the doubt. Their mapping just follows what their mapping cars and aerial photos gather. But its pretty eas

As mush as it pains me to give google the benefit of the doubt. Their mapping just follows what their mapping cars and aerial photos gather. But its pretty easy to report "problems" with their maps and get things corrected and removed from their suggested routes. For example, near me there is an unlit and unpaved dirt alleyway linking two roads together. It cuts out about 5 mins of walking if you want to got to a road that links off those roads, but I really don't recommend that route to be a thoroughfare as even on dry days it can still be muddy because the tree cover will slow the ground drying out if it has been raining the day before. When I needed to know where a street was and Google Maps directed me though that alleyway, I reported the problem to them and they removed that alley to be used as a thoroughfare and it only now suggests it if you want to go to the street that alleyway connects to. So if you have people walking though your gardens or private land, report the issue to Google and hopefully they will fix it.