despite appearances no, this is not the Costa Concordia heading straight for another big rock
here at googlemapsfail we would like to extend the season of goodwill to all men, especially Google maps engineers, by highlighting something they have got right for once. yes, it’s on the Isle of Dogs so it almost certainly is fairly fucking dodgy
this morning Google Maps UK switched from using Tele Atlas’s data to their own, lovingly handcrafted by some guys driving StreetView cars and a digitizing sweatshop in India.
apparently it is almost as good.
“You’d better tell the Captain we’ve got to land as soon as we can. This plane has to be gotten to an airport.”
“An airport? What is it?”
“It’s a couple of trees in a field in Oxford, but that’s not important right now.”
srsly Google, I’d just turn the hybrid option off if I were you, it makes you look like idiots
StreetView driver is bored of this tarmac road shit but I very very very seriously doubt that this is a B road
So a man walks into an imaginary bar…
euh, bof, vive l’entente cordiale.
parce que Google scrape les site web, les motorways Eenglish avont les names français. alors le London Orbital (c’est-a-dire “le grandest car park dans le world”) est maintenant “l’autoroute britannique”. parce que les Eenglish sont assez backward que ils avont seulement one autoroute.
dear google maps, if you’re going to scrape wikipedia for british road names (and we won’t talk about the copyright infringement right now), please. try. to. scrape. wikipedia.org. and. not. wikipedia.fr. you. retards.
hat tip to the Grauniad.
driving directions: circumnavigate around John Prescott (approx. 3 miles) and turn right. You think I’m joking? here are Google’s directions for how to get from Tony Blair to Tessa Jowell
what are the chances of there being two airports so close together? you’d have thought they might talk to each other before building the second one
fortunately, Google Maps saves the day with clear driving directions from one to the other.
note: please be careful not to follow their helpfully marked side-roads straight through a cargo shed or a car park hedge. also, do not even think about doing this. apparently airport security take a dim view
(Incidentally, full credit to Google for fixing most of the foul-ups we’ve spotted so far. You might even get the impression their engineers read this blog or something)
Clearly Google Maps surveyors don’t go south of the river at this time of night guvnor.
Second attempt slightly better. Someone should tell the Port of London Authority about the obstruction to navigation in midchannel though
