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Re: Google Maps updates, fark

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"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> "Chris in Makati" <mail@nospam.com> wrote in message 
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>> On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 02:55:07 +1100, "Rod Speed"
>> <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>Previously I have seen google maps update some errors on their maps
>>>so quickly that I have regretted not checking the maps hourly to see just
>>>how quickly the change was done.
>>>
>>>This time, with a VERY basic error on their part, its taken the best part 
>>>of
>>>3 fucking months to actually get the update made.
>>>
>>>The problem was that one road, Snaidero Rd, somehow managed to
>>>get changed from that correct spelling to Snaldero Rd, presumably
>>>either some stupid keyed it in wrong or and someone stupidly used
>>>an OCR system to update it etc. I know that the person who the road
>>>is named after didn't request a spelling change because I know the
>>>family personally and know that it was originally spelt correctly.
>>>
>>>Reported it at least 3 times, the last time with a rather snide remark
>>>about why it was taking so long for someone to fix it. Still took at
>>>least 2 months from the last notification to get the change made.
>>>
>>>Not clear why it took so long this time when I have had at least
>>>4 other reported errors fixed very quickly indeed in the past.
>>>Maybe this one happened as a result of where they get the bulk
>>>of their data from making the original error and it took that long
>>>to get them to check that they had made an error or something,
>>>even tho google maps obviously had the original correct spelling
>>>in their own system for years. Maybe they assumed that the change
>>>was correct and needed to get whoever made the change to confirm
>>>that it wasn't or something.
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>> Is Google Map Maker enabled for your area?
>> If so you can go in and edit road names yourself.
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>> http://www.google.com/mapmaker
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> I don't just want my copy of the map to
> be correct, I want the database error fixed
> for everyone else too.

Sorry, my brain fart there.

> I've done that 4 times now and would have
> done another one recently but was so pissed
> off about how long that last one took that I
> didn't bother. And have now forgotten what
> the error was so I can't just do it now and see
> how long that takes.
>
> I notice the original error I first reported to
> Apple has now been fixed. Not clear if it was
> my report that saw it fixed, likely it was, just
> took a fantastic amount of time to get fixed.
>
> With the second one I don't know if I did
> report it to Apple given that they didn't take
> any notice of the first one in a reasonable
> amount of time and there is no way to check
> that because with Apple you don't get any
> confirmation of your report of an error. You
> do with google maps, an email when you
> report the problem and another when they
> fix it.
>
> The third one was only bad in google maps.
> Someone had moved the Anglican cathedral
> from its location in the main part of town
> to a tiny little village well out of town,
> in one of the back streets of that village,
> presumably as a joke. 

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Google Maps updates, fark "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-01-14 02:55 +1100
  Re: Google Maps updates, fark Chris in Makati <mail@nospam.com> - 2016-01-14 08:17 +0800
    Re: Google Maps updates, fark felix <me@nothere.invalid> - 2016-01-14 11:25 +1100
      Re: Google Maps updates, fark "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-01-14 14:22 +1100
    Re: Google Maps updates, fark "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-01-14 14:18 +1100
      Re: Google Maps updates, fark "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-01-14 14:23 +1100
  Re: Google Maps updates, fark Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2016-01-14 09:40 +0200
    Re: Google Maps updates, fark "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-01-14 19:28 +1100

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