.... 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. :-)
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | Let me know if that is a convincing argument.
| If it is, I'll try it on myself. --Maria Conlon

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

Stuart wrote:
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

Not very much better as it also thinks Britannia Crescent exists:
http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.c...e epicon=true

Sharky wrote:
Stuart wrote:
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

Not very much better as it also thinks Britannia Crescent exists:
http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.c...e epicon=true

It claims it's in postcode N612 4xx, which is an invalid postcode
format!

I'm pleased to see that Streetmap, which I always prefer to Multimap,
doesn't recognise Britannia Crescent as a street in London. Nor does
the postcode directory. The nearest one is in Colchester.
--
Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)

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.

"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.

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

--
Oh no - I've just turned my arse into a hand grenade!

In message , Tom
Anderson writes

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

There's a list of nearly 50 claimed errors in London N6 alone at:

http://www.pocketgps.co.uk/modules.p...topic&p=119867

(scroll down to the post from Peter Kessler)!

--
Paul Terry