Re: Google Maps updates, fark

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From	"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
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Subject	Re: Google Maps updates, fark
Date	Thu, 14 Jan 2016 19:28:24 +1100
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"Anssi Saari" <as@sci.fi> wrote in message 
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> "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> Well, I'm soon moving to a street Google Maps doesn't display. It's
> pretty weird, Maps finds the street by name and shows addresses on it
> too but not the road itself and it can't route sensibly to it.
>
> Also weird that while it's a fairly new road but it's been there for
> over five years least and there are much newer roads around here that
> are already in Maps. So now I wonder how long it's going to take for
> Google to fix this since they haven't in the 5+ years so far... I can't
> believe no one has reported it before but I guess it's possible.

Yeah, its never been very clear to me just how many bother to report errors.

Mine are all in a country town in Australia, so it wouldn’t be too
surprising if not many here bother to report even quite serious errors.

The ones I reported were very basic errors that were dead obvious.
Clearly no one bothered to report them.

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