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Google Maps put a town label near my parents' house that is a name that was on some old maps in the 1910s, but fell completely out of use before the current sub
by annzabelle 4mo ago
Google Maps put a town label near my parents' house that is a name that was on some old maps in the 1910s, but fell completely out of use before the current suburb was built in the 70s and 80s. I had never heard it once in my life until I was in my early 20s and met a transplant who had picked up the name from Google Maps. I attempted to report it as inaccurate (USGS has had it as being out of use for decades) multiple times over the years, but no reply.
- dmurray 4mo agoMost of the neighbourhood names in my large European city were like this on Google Maps. Either old names or hyperspecific landmark/street names that I had never heard being used as synecdoche for the area. This was definitely true 4-5 years ago. I looked now and it's mostly better at most levels of zoom.
- consp 4mo agoGoogle maps uses suggestive names (e.g. a park walkway given a name by the municipality) as official road names, and when it does that it marked it as a cycling path. Both are invalid and cycling on them is illegal. This has been going on for years.
- 21asdffdsa12 4mo agoIt redirects cars on foot/bikepaths near rivers, with the danger of sliding in.
- inigyou 4mo agoGoogle puts the "Warsaw-Berlin Urstromtal" (glacial valley?) right in the middle of the river near the Friedrichstraße train station. You can be browsing the area and suddenly, yep, there's a glacial valley there in the middle of the river. According to Google. This is a large-scale geographical feature that crosses most of Germany and Poland. But actually it's in the river next to Friedrichstraße station.