.... the misnamed street map.

http://maps.google.co.uk/?ll=51.5767...09975,0.019956

I know Highgate rather well, and approximately 50% of the street names in
this map are wrong. The renaming of Archway Road as Britannia Crescent is a
particular gem. Is Google maps generally this bad, or was the data set for
Highgate produced by someone who was just about to quit?

John Rowland wrote:
... the misnamed street map.

http://maps.google.co.uk/?ll=51.5767...09975,0.019956

I know Highgate rather well, and approximately 50% of the street names in
this map are wrong. The renaming of Archway Road as Britannia Crescent is a
particular gem. Is Google maps generally this bad, or was the data set for
Highgate produced by someone who was just about to quit?

Google Maps is crap: Have a look at Wood Green tube station:
http://maps.google.co.uk/?ll=51.5981...12263,0.029268

There were loads of erroneous railway stations (some out of sync, others
missing and some not on a railway line at all) in this part of London
too, these have been fixed by removing all stations!

John Rowland:
http://maps.google.co.uk/?ll=51.5767...09975,0.019956

I know Highgate rather well, and approximately 50% of the street names in
this map are wrong. ... Is Google maps generally this bad...?

Stuart writes:
Google Maps is crap ....

Their coverage of my part of the world is fine. Maybe you guys need to
move to a country important enough to be mapped properly. :-)
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| If it is, I'll try it on myself. --Maria Conlon

John Rowland wrote:
... the misnamed street map.
I know Highgate rather well, and approximately 50% of the street names in
this map are wrong. The renaming of Archway Road as Britannia Crescent is a
particular gem.

I see the maps are provided by TeleAtlas, so it's probably a case of
'say no more'.

TomTom, who are probably favoured by most consumers these days for
SatNav products, use the same maps and their systems are full of
similar problems. By the end of the year, they are likely to have
changed to Navteq mapping which is far, far superior.

Streetmap.co.uk and multimap.co.uk use TeleAtlas/Navteq maps, so you
can make easy comparisons on there.

On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, John Rowland wrote:

... the misnamed street map.

http://maps.google.co.uk/?ll=51.5767...09975,0.019956

I know Highgate rather well, and approximately 50% of the street names
in this map are wrong. The renaming of Archway Road as Britannia
Crescent is a particular gem. Is Google maps generally this bad, or was
the data set for Highgate produced by someone who was just about to
quit?

I'm often far less than impressed by the Tele Atlas data.

The silver lining, of course, is that when the rampant Google
superintelligent AI, having decided our fate in a microsecond, sends out
its legions of death machines, they'll get lost, and we'll be spared.

tom

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"Jonathan Morris" wrote in message
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John Rowland wrote:
... the misnamed street map.
I know Highgate rather well, and approximately 50% of the street names in
this map are wrong. The renaming of Archway Road as Britannia Crescent is
a
particular gem.

I see the maps are provided by TeleAtlas, so it's probably a case of
'say no more'.

TomTom, who are probably favoured by most consumers these days for
SatNav products, use the same maps and their systems are full of
similar problems. By the end of the year, they are likely to have
changed to Navteq mapping which is far, far superior.

Streetmap.co.uk and multimap.co.uk use TeleAtlas/Navteq maps, so you
can make easy comparisons on there.

I think the multimap ones are also Teleatlas. Try MSN maps they are
definitely navteq.

John Rowland wrote:
... the misnamed street map.

http://maps.google.co.uk/?ll=51.5767...09975,0.019956

I know Highgate rather well, and approximately 50% of the street
names in this map are wrong. The renaming of Archway Road as
Britannia Crescent is a particular gem. Is Google maps generally this
bad, or was the data set for Highgate produced by someone who was
just about to quit?


I don't know Highgate at all, but in Edinburgh there is a "street"
called the royal mile I thought for years the entire thing was called
that so if I had seen a map were it was called The lawn market, The high
street, Cannongate I would have thought the map was wrong maybe (repeat
maybe) the "official name" used on/by maps is different to what the
locals call that street.
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hidden agendas so it should be taken at face value. The wrong words
may be used this is due to my limitations with the English language .

"soup" wrote in message
k...
John Rowland wrote:

... the misnamed street map.

http://maps.google.co.uk/?ll=51.5767...09975,0.019956

I know Highgate rather well, and approximately 50% of the street
names in this map are wrong. The renaming of Archway Road as
Britannia Crescent is a particular gem.

maybe (repeat maybe) the "official name" used
on/by maps is different to what the locals call that street.

Lots of main roads do have colloquial names... but I happen to know that
doesn't apply here, and it certainly doesn't explain how 50% of the roads
are misnamed

John Rowland wrote:
"soup" wrote in message
k...

John Rowland wrote:

... the misnamed street map.

http://maps.google.co.uk/?ll=51.5767...09975,0.019956

I know Highgate rather well, and approximately 50% of the street
names in this map are wrong. The renaming of Archway Road as
Britannia Crescent is a particular gem.

maybe (repeat maybe) the "official name" used
on/by maps is different to what the locals call that street.


Lots of main roads do have colloquial names... but I happen to know that
doesn't apply here, and it certainly doesn't explain how 50% of the roads
are misnamed


Deliberate misinformation to outwit terrorists?
Hey Abdul, why didn't you blow up the bus on Archway
It don't exist, the infidels have moved it!

Mark Brader wrote:

Their coverage of my part of the world is fine. Maybe you guys need to
move to a country important enough to be mapped properly. :-)

Or we could just use http://www.multimap.co.uk which does the job far
better