In message , at 18:50:09 on Sun, 4 Oct
2015, Roland Perry remarked:
Yes, and the results in strange overseas cities can often be very patchy.

True, though London, the city in question, has extremely good
coverage, and I have never had issues finding anywhere I wanted to go
on it. Indeed, it is my primary tool for finding places in London
whatever mode of transport I happen to be using.

I wonder how up to date the maps are. In my home town there's a set of
premises which used to be a Vauxhall Garage, that closed about three
years ago, but is still marked as such on Google maps. The place was
empty for a couple of years and is now a convenience store (invisible
to Google maps). Closer to the centre of town, Google hasn't yet caught
up with the Post Office, which moved to new premises at the end of last year.

Perhaps they rely over-much on crowd-sourcing their premises
information, because a couple of retailers who have only been going
since the summer *are* shown correctly. But that process doesn't flush
out the dross - a branch of Lloyds Pharmacy which closed two years ago
in the High Street and was refitted as a Subway/Spar is listed
alongside those two on the map.

The last place I needed to find on Google Maps was a charity-run care
home, and that's completely missing too (it was built in 2005).

And of course iPhone maps has a completely different subset of
missing/wrong/outdated information
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Roland Perry