Friday, May 30, 2025

Google Maps Errors

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The map is full of errors: incorrect names on places, missing rivers and canals or they're following the wrong route, businesses in the wrong place etc. Here's the latest one I've spotted, fixed and submitted. The entire Naas Dual Carriageway from The Ball to the Red Cow Roundabout is the "Naas Byp", presumably meaning "Naas Bypass"". Maybe the whole dual carriageway has been designated as the Naas Bypass? Some of this may be due to vandalism, or people put things in the wrong place or don't zoom in sufficiently when they're adding their businesses. Routes of waterways may be created automatically from satellite images, or traced manually, but the routes are frequently wrong. Several miles of the Herbertstown branch of the Grand Canal as far as Corbally Harbour were missing up until I reported it last year.