On 2015-10-03 12:14:41 +0000, Roland Perry said:

That's no help if all I know is the name of a place, and can't locate
it on a map. If in a strange City it can be very difficult to correlate
random destinations with "points on a map".

You've used Google Maps' search facility before, I'm assuming?

Neil
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Neil Williams
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In message , at 14:47:31 on Sun, 4 Oct
2015, Neil Williams remarked:

That's no help if all I know is the name of a place, and can't locate
it on a map. If in a strange City it can be very difficult to
correlate random destinations with "points on a map".

You've used Google Maps' search facility before, I'm assuming?

Yes, and the results in strange overseas cities can often be very
patchy.
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Roland Perry

On 2015-10-04 14:10:10 +0000, Roland Perry said:

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.

Neil
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Neil Williams
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In message , at 17:07:06 on Sun, 4 Oct
2015, Neil Williams 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).
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Roland Perry

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

In message , Roland Perry
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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).

I once needed to check on Google Maps how to get from my place
(London/Essex borders) to London Bridge

Much to my surprise (I kid you not) the route was

Drive to Dover
Swim the English Channel to France
Swim the Atlantic to New York
Drive from New York to Lake Havasu City Arizona
London Bridge (the old one rebuilt there)

I assume some programmer at Google had a sense of humour.
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Bryan Morris
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In message , at 19:28:16 on Sun, 4 Oct
2015, Bryan Morris remarked:
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).

I once needed to check on Google Maps how to get from my place
(London/Essex borders) to London Bridge

Much to my surprise (I kid you not) the route was

Drive to Dover
Swim the English Channel to France
Swim the Atlantic to New York
Drive from New York to Lake Havasu City Arizona
London Bridge (the old one rebuilt there)

I assume some programmer at Google had a sense of humour.

There was a time when one of the mapping systems (I don't remember if it
was a web-based one or CD-based) sent people from south England to
Newcastle via France, and various other countries, ending up with a
ferry back from Scandinavia (Bergen probably).

Early versions one rail planner would send you to a small town in
Belgium if you typed in "Waterloo".
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Roland Perry

On Sun, 04 Oct 2015 21:43:29 +0100, Roland Perry wrote:

There was a time when one of the mapping systems (I don't remember if it
was a web-based one or CD-based) sent people from south England to
Newcastle via France, and various other countries, ending up with a
ferry back from Scandinavia (Bergen probably).

One of the Autoroute versions did this for some combinations of start and
end. Also did things like routing via the IoW for journeys between
Portsmouth and Bournemouth.

--
Denis McMahon,

In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at 19:28:16 on Sun, 4 Oct
2015, Bryan Morris remarked:
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).

I once needed to check on Google Maps how to get from my place
(London/Essex borders) to London Bridge

Much to my surprise (I kid you not) the route was

Drive to Dover
Swim the English Channel to France
Swim the Atlantic to New York
Drive from New York to Lake Havasu City Arizona
London Bridge (the old one rebuilt there)

I assume some programmer at Google had a sense of humour.

There was a time when one of the mapping systems (I don't remember if
it was a web-based one or CD-based) sent people from south England to
Newcastle via France, and various other countries, ending up with a
ferry back from Scandinavia (Bergen probably).

Early versions one rail planner would send you to a small town in
Belgium if you typed in "Waterloo".

And to get from my house in central Cambridge to Cambridge station the
transportdirect.info site would send me via Newmarket.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

On 10/4/2015 5:07 PM, Neil Williams wrote:
On 2015-10-04 14:10:10 +0000, Roland Perry said:

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.


Oddly enough have a look for Barbican Underground station on google maps
at the moment - it seems to have migrated 150 yds north...