I think google maps is great but they’ve had an error on there for the last number of years that I reported and has never been changed. Consarnit!
I feel like the satellite view on Google Maps has gotten noticeably slower over the past year or so. When I use it now, and zoom in, it always seems to take a long time, and I get these huge gray squares all over the map. There’s nothing wrong with my internet connection - WTF is going on here? Does anyone else have this same issue?
Recently I was looking for a new house and during the process of looking up directions for 40 or 50 homes to tour, I found that about 1/10 times Google Maps completely and utterly failed to find the house. As in, wasn’t within 2 or 3 miles, even when I gave it the 9-digit extended ZIP code. I found it was a bit alarming that it could be so wrong.
That’s strange–tygre and I look up literally thousands of addresses a year during the course of our jobs, and I think Google’s failure rate has been about 1%. Is it possible you’re looking at new homes or developments? Google has been pretty slow to get new streets and lots in, to be honest.
I agree that Google maps is not trustworthy any more.
A barber shop here in Denver I was trying to find showed up a block and a half south and on the wrong side of the street.
I showed up two hours early at the Holiday Inn Express in Glenwood Springs due to Google maps losing it completely when I changed my route to go through Walden and Steamboat Springs. (On the bright side, Glenwood Springs is full of bars to kill time in.)
Did you try reversing the polarity?
No house we looked at was newer than 9 years. I can’t explain it, I just know it happened to us.
Were you searching for an address, or looking at a business with a listed address? Because many of the business locations on Google Maps are user-generated, and therefore not reliable. The addresses are usually fine, but sometimes someone will list a business and just pin it to the map, or just enter a ZIP code and the business will get pinned to the center of that ZIP code.
He’s probably been eating too many Jelly Babies.
The last time I used Google maps was to look up an address in Brooklyn, and the result it gave me was 7 blocks east of the actual location.
Try creating an inverse tachyon field from the main deflector array.
If you know where the business is, and you must, to know that Google is wrong, why do you need to look it up?
Google Maps is convinced there’s a Panera bread down the street from me - at a dead-end, at the end of a one-lane road in a residential area.
I assumed it was either a copyright trap or an elaborate scheme by a serial killer to lure fast-food snobs to their doom.
I often look up know businesses to use as landmarks to help find something I’m not familiar with. If the place I’m looking for is just past the Starbucks, then I don’t need to start looking out for it until I get to Starbucks.
If Google tells me Starbucks is three miles north of where I know it is, then I can’t trust Google with regards to my destination.
That said, Google Maps gives me a pretty good success rate.
Requesting clarification re whether Google jumped the shark vs. screwed the pooch.
Awaiting your response.
mmm
And the satellite photos of nudist colonies are all blurred out. Talk about a cheat.
I am curious about the OP.
Are the incorrect locations showing up when one enters “ABC Widgets”?
Or are the incorrect locations showing up as (erroneous) flagged locations when one enters “1234 Main St.,” with ABC Widgets appearing on the map at either 900 Main St. or 1500 Main St.?
And to think they have the nerve to charge us for this abomination!
Sheesh, this is one of the best things since sliced bread. You had one problem with it and it has “jumped the shark”. I don’t think you know the meaning of the term.
Unfortunately, no, because I was trying to find the distance from my house to somewhere near it, and I don’t want to publicize my actual address for all the world to see. But I know damn well they had those businesses in the correct place just a few weeks ago. I would have noticed them in the wrong place, if they had been. Just like it instantly jumped out at me this time. In fact, one of them is where I was trying to find the distance to. I finally got the correct distance by “walking” the lat/long coords onto the actual building in satellite view.
To find out how far I’ve been walking every time I walk there. I punched in my lat/lon, then hit goto and punched in the name of the place. It then zoomed down and showed me the route. In the opposite direction, and the wrong distance. I then zoomed out a bit, and found many of the businesses in the area, which had always been in the right place before, were now “relocated”.