If you search for 2212 Line 34, Shakespeare, ON on Google Maps, you get a location that is something like 50 km from the true location. Shakespeare is actually between New Hamburg and Stratford, Ontario.
Google Maps seems quite unreliable for Southern Ontario. It used to be that when you searched for the Waterloo-Wellington
airport, you would get a location about 25 km from the true one.
It would be interesting to understand what about the data or algorithm results in such a bizarre error. It would also be nice if it were easier to report errors in Google maps.
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Showing posts with label Google. Show all posts
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Thursday, February 12, 2009
Google.ca Celebrates Darwin, Google.com? Not So Much
My kids pointed out to me that this morning Google.ca has this logo in honor of Charles Darwin's 200th birthday, but Google.com doesn't. Strange.
Addendum: UK Google and French Google both have the Darwin logo.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Google Maps Easter Egg
Eric Veach of Google just spoke here at Waterloo about Google Maps in the J. W. Graham medal seminar. He told us about various strategies involved in making Google Maps work, including prerendering the maps, and dividing the work up so it can be done in parallel, with more processors allocated to denser parts of the world.
He also revealed the following easter egg: try getting driving directions from San Francisco, CA, to Sydney, Australia. The resulting itinerary takes about 41 days, but that's because much of the trip isn't by car.
He also revealed the following easter egg: try getting driving directions from San Francisco, CA, to Sydney, Australia. The resulting itinerary takes about 41 days, but that's because much of the trip isn't by car.
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