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Putting Google Maps to rights

Started by Brazen, September 22, 2009, 10:55:11 AM

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Brazen

According to the esteemed reference, the university in the middle of Trent Park, North London, is Staffordshire University. Having worked there and indeed run round it many times, I know this is a lie. It is, in fact Middlesex UNiversity. Staffordshire is 140 miles away...

Anyway, I notified TeleAtlas who do the maps for Google. But not before I'd pointed out their error to everyone I know.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=trent+park&sll=51.659752,-0.129948&sspn=0.017304,0.037422&ie=UTF8&radius=0.8&rq=1&ev=zi&ll=51.666806,-0.129948&spn=0.017301,0.037422&z=15&iwloc=B

Josquius

They do a lot of that.
Dodgy namings of suburbs and whatnot.
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PRC

When I enter my address into google the pointer shows up on the house across the street from mine, instead of directly on my house... morons.

Razgovory

It's always off by a block or so around here.
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Josephus

Quote from: PRC on September 22, 2009, 04:12:25 PM
When I enter my address into google the pointer shows up on the house across the street from mine, instead of directly on my house... morons.

When I do mine, I get Jaron's house.  :(
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derspiess

After the way you Brits treated their camera cars, I wouldn't blame Google for taking their time correcting the error.
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garbon

Quote from: PRC on September 22, 2009, 04:12:25 PM
When I enter my address into google the pointer shows up on the house across the street from mine, instead of directly on my house... morons.

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