Incorrect highways marked on Google Maps

Started by Riverside Frwy, November 08, 2009, 09:56:04 PM

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Alps

Google does three different things on three consecutive business routes. Is anyone surprised?


sandwalk


vtk

Quote from: sandwalk on January 17, 2012, 11:51:57 PM
Not a highway.  But apparently Southwestern Vermont Medical Center is in north central Ohio. :D

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=willard+ohio&ll=41.051201,-82.718039&spn=0.037347,0.055189&hnear=Willard,+Huron,+Ohio&gl=us&t=m&z=14&vpsrc=6

I wonder if that's a result of bad geocoding, or a mistake by a foreign MapMaker user.

Bad geocoding results in a lot of POIs with addresses like "XXX Private Drive #YYY, South Point, OH" to be placed on a short residential street (with one house) called Private Dr in a neighborhood called Westpoint, over a hundred miles north in Franklin County.
Wait, it's all Ohio? Always has been.

Stephane Dumas

Not an highway but they're still reference to Detroit Olympia arena, former home of the Red Wings and the Pistons who was closed in 1980 and demolished in 1986.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=42.353458,-83.100978&ll=42.352966,-83.099889&spn=0.003072,0.004823&num=1&vpsrc=0&t=m&z=18

roadman65

The Google Street view shows NJ 109 over the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway  in Lower, NJ as the Garden State Parkway.
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Alex

Quote from: agentsteel53 on January 17, 2012, 03:46:47 PM
Quote from: NE2 on January 17, 2012, 03:39:37 PM
That's TXDOT's method of identifying their business routes. Here's 35-H (and SH 46-C):

does the general motoring public ever pay attention to the business route letter?  I have not ever heard of someone saying "take business IH-35F" but I am not all that often in Texas. 

Mapsco (now defunct of course), which was supposed to be the authority in Texas road maps, did not know why the national atlas they put a cover on used suffixes on the BL shields in Texas. I pointed them out to their president and it was the first he had heard of them. So the answer should be "absolutely not".

kphoger

Apparently, the small town of Waverly, Minnesota, has a two- or three-block section of State Highway 61 running right through its downtown.  I really would have expected more of the Minnesota highway department; note the distinct lack of route signage, center line, etc.  Also note that the "rest" of State Highway 61 exists as the would-be extension of I-35 from Duluth to Grand Portage.

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=45.068015,-93.965962&spn=0.011548,0.019205&t=m&z=16
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US71

Has anyone had problems submitting map corrections to Google? I have submitted 4, only to be told my submissions aren't valid.
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rickmastfan67

Quote from: US71 on February 02, 2012, 10:28:07 AM
Has anyone had problems submitting map corrections to Google? I have submitted 4, only to be told my submissions aren't valid.


Not here, but I haven't submitted many lately.

sandwalk

Quote from: vtk on January 18, 2012, 06:44:08 AM
Quote from: sandwalk on January 17, 2012, 11:51:57 PM
Not a highway.  But apparently Southwestern Vermont Medical Center is in north central Ohio. :D

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=willard+ohio&ll=41.051201,-82.718039&spn=0.037347,0.055189&hnear=Willard,+Huron,+Ohio&gl=us&t=m&z=14&vpsrc=6

I wonder if that's a result of bad geocoding, or a mistake by a foreign MapMaker user.

Bad geocoding results in a lot of POIs with addresses like "XXX Private Drive #YYY, South Point, OH" to be placed on a short residential street (with one house) called Private Dr in a neighborhood called Westpoint, over a hundred miles north in Franklin County.

Makes sense.  However, that location is indeed a hospital (Mercy Hospital of Willard).

WNYroadgeek

And now Google has US 20 mutiplexed with US 20A for the entirety of the latter's routing, even though US 20's actual routing is still there!: http://g.co/maps/fqpfz

Kacie Jane

Quote from: WNYroadgeek on February 08, 2012, 10:48:45 PM
And now Google has US 20 mutiplexed with US 20A for the entirety of the latter's routing, even though US 20's actual routing is still there!: http://g.co/maps/fqpfz

I'm guessing the reason for this is their inability to show bannered routes, and for some reason they have this labeled as both US 20A and US 20 Alt.  Doesn't make it okay by any stretch of the imagination; in fact, it's a mistake layered on top of a mistake.

Similarly, in Niagara Falls, they have three consecutive blocks labelled as US 62. http://g.co/maps/3pqs3 (The two-way street should be 62 Business, formerly NY 62A.)

HighwayMaster

Someone must have went into MapMaker and added in the aisle numbers at a Home Depot near DC: http://g.co/maps/bmqs9
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NE2

Quote from: HighwayMaster on February 15, 2012, 02:06:57 PM
Someone must have went into MapMaker and added in the aisle numbers at a Home Depot near DC: http://g.co/maps/bmqs9
As footways, most likely. Nothing incorrect about that, just micromapping.
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vtk

Quote from: HighwayMaster on February 15, 2012, 02:06:57 PM
Someone must have went into MapMaker and added in the aisle numbers at a Home Depot near DC: http://g.co/maps/bmqs9

Sure that's not related to Google's new Indoor Maps?
Wait, it's all Ohio? Always has been.

kphoger

Wow..... I was just calculating mileage between fuel and meal stops for a trip to Minnesota tomorrow, and.....apparently the whole town of Ankeny, Iowa, no longer exists.  All the businesses it suggests have an Ankeny address, but I am unable to map the town itself, and the label 'Ankeny' is no longer on the map.  Poor guys.....
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Scott5114

Quote from: NE2 on February 15, 2012, 03:29:01 PM
Quote from: HighwayMaster on February 15, 2012, 02:06:57 PM
Someone must have went into MapMaker and added in the aisle numbers at a Home Depot near DC: http://g.co/maps/bmqs9
As footways, most likely. Nothing incorrect about that, just micromapping.

Who could possibly have the inclination to walk through the Home Depot with a GPS taking notes though? Or even to draw a map of the store layout with aisle numbers to fastidiously draw back up when they got home? It would almost have to be a bored geo-geek employee... if anyone else tried doing that they'd surely be asked not to...
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NE2

Quote from: Scott5114 on February 16, 2012, 01:33:54 PM
Who could possibly have the inclination to walk through the Home Depot with a GPS taking notes though?
Er, GPS doesn't work indoors...
pre-1945 Florida route log

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bsmart

Just a thought - It used to be the norm that reference books (dictionaries, atlases, etc) purposely put some false information in so that they could prove copyright infringement if necessary. ADC book maps usually had a few roads that could be said to be 'planned' or 'future' that were marked as existing that I believe fell into this category.  Could it be that Google is doing the same but all of us being able to discuss it in realtime makes it more obvious?

NE2

Quote from: bsmart on February 17, 2012, 10:54:33 PM
Just a thought - It used to be the norm that reference books (dictionaries, atlases, etc) purposely put some false information in so that they could prove copyright infringement if necessary. ADC book maps usually had a few roads that could be said to be 'planned' or 'future' that were marked as existing that I believe fell into this category.  Could it be that Google is doing the same but all of us being able to discuss it in realtime makes it more obvious?
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pre-1945 Florida route log

I accept and respect your identity as long as it's not dumb shit like "identifying as a vaccinated attack helicopter".

bigboi00069

Google maps shows US 41 continuing north along US 1 in Miami until I-395. It has terminated at US 1 (1.5 miles south of 395) since the mid 90s.

rickmastfan67

Quote from: bigboi00069 on February 17, 2012, 11:36:17 PM
Google maps shows US 41 continuing north along US 1 in Miami until I-395. It has terminated at US 1 (1.5 miles south of 395) since the mid 90s.

Actually, US-41 officially still mutliplexes with US-1 and FL-A1A to end over at Washington Ave.  FDOT never submitted a request to the AASHTO to decommission that part of US-41.  Heck, even in their GIS data, they still show US-41 continuing over to Washington Ave.

NE2

pre-1945 Florida route log

I accept and respect your identity as long as it's not dumb shit like "identifying as a vaccinated attack helicopter".

rickmastfan67

Here's a recent screw-up by Google.  Say bye-bye to US-17 and say hello to US-17B!

http://g.co/maps/fz2hf

US71

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I reported 4 errors yesterday. Let's see how they respond.

UPDATE: They accepted 3, but asked for more info on the fourth.
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