April Fool's Day jokes in maps

[Roadsguy]

How often do you have April Fool's Day jokes in maps? (Like making anything with "us30=yes" show as Quebec Route 366 in OpenStreetMap. ) Do any do it at all, or is it a bad idea?

EDIT: This belongs in off-topic, doesn't it...

[Alps]

EDIT: This belongs in off-topic, doesn't it...

It does have to do with maps, so why not? I think it would be a quite bad idea, because people need to get directions that work.

[kphoger]

(Like making anything with "us30=yes" show as Quebec Route 366 in OpenStreetMap. )

I would get the joke, and I'm sure several others on here would too.  But, really, how many people out there would?

[MDOTFanFB]

How often do you have April Fool's Day jokes in maps? (Like making anything with "us30=yes" show as Quebec Route 366 in OpenStreetMap. ) Do any do it at all, or is it a bad idea?

Or you can rig everything that has "ref=I 74" change to "ref=I 74;I 465". 

[CNGL-Leudimin]

I'd renumber everything to I-238 .

But here it won't happen until December 28th, so who knows.

[vdeane]

Looks like Google got started on April Fool's day a bit early.  That or it's just an easter egg.

[Duke87]

They didn't start early. It's already April 1st in the far east, don't forget.

[Truvelo]

You're on about the treasure button on Google Maps?

[MDOTFanFB]

Looks like Google got started on April Fool's day a bit early.  That or it's just an easter egg.

You're on about the treasure button on Google Maps?

I already made a screenshot of this...

[dgolub]

How often do you have April Fool's Day jokes in maps? (Like making anything with "us30=yes" show as Quebec Route 366 in OpenStreetMap. ) Do any do it at all, or is it a bad idea?

EDIT: This belongs in off-topic, doesn't it...

I've posted a few road-related April Fool's Day jokes to my site over the years.  Last year, Long Island was getting a bridge to nowhere that would be designated NY 27K and connect the South Fork to Gardiner's Island, a privately owned island that's not accessible to the public.

[MDOTFanFB]

And I posted another Google Maps April Fools screenshot, but I modified the "image date" so you can guess if the BGS is that old! 

[bulldog1979]

The Detroit Free Press covered M-00 in their "You haven't lived here until..." series.

[Molandfreak]

The Detroit Free Press covered M-00 in their "You haven't lived here until..." series.

That. Is the greatest thing I have ever seen. All hail M-00!!!

[MDOTFanFB]

The Detroit Free Press covered M-00 in their "You haven't lived here until..." series.

And I managed to create a shield for that...

[vdeane]

Looks like Google got started on April Fool's day a bit early.  That or it's just an easter egg.

You're on about the treasure button on Google Maps?

I already made a screenshot of this...

I think the treasure street view works better with the old blurry imagery myself.

[Alps]

The Detroit Free Press covered M-00 in their "You haven't lived here until..." series.

And I managed to create a shield for that...

MOOoooooo

[english si]

The Detroit Free Press covered M-00 in their "You haven't lived here until..." series.

Excellent idea, but poorly executed in terms of April Fools Day. The article's funny, but not something believable. And April Fools Day is written so blatantly several times across the article.

AFD stuff has to be both absurd, but believable as truth. There has to be a chance that real stories get treated like AFD pranks. There's some good ones here. The Google Treasure Maps Video works as one, but you are more likely to have found the maps first and treat it like an Easter Egg (like typing Google into Bing and getting a page that mocks Google's).

[Molandfreak]

They didn't start early. It's already April 1st in the far east, don't forget.

Don't forget that google is headquartered in California.

[vdeane]

The Detroit Free Press covered M-00 in their "You haven't lived here until..." series.

Excellent idea, but poorly executed in terms of April Fools Day. The article's funny, but not something believable. And April Fools Day is written so blatantly several times across the article.

AFD stuff has to be both absurd, but believable as truth. There has to be a chance that real stories get treated like AFD pranks. There's some good ones here. The Google Treasure Maps Video works as one, but you are more likely to have found the maps first and treat it like an Easter Egg (like typing Google into Bing and getting a page that mocks Google's).

Believe it or not, there are some people who like that.  And some people who are paranoid about getting sued.  I've even stopped reading Clarkson's student newspaper on April 1 because they change people/place names in such a way that what could have been funny turns out to be incredibly stupid; the only one that's even halfway decent is the changing of "Clarkson Integrator" to "Clarkson Instigator".