Google maps mistakes
Google maps is an amazing application. I love it, and I love to wander around in it 
Yesterday looking at my house with the new pictures, I saw that there are overlapping pictures 2 blocks away from my place!, this shows the duplicate streets:
I also noticed this going on with some pictures, its more visible in buildings (I am not sure if in this particular pair of buildings is happening what I want to describe, but it looks like it :P)
In the picture 2 buildings are shown, whose pictures were taken from different perspectives. This is (almost) what happens:
There are two pictures taken, from point “A”, and later another picture is taken from point “B”. The buildings show their projections in the picture as shown in the diagram. This is why they look as if they were leaning against each other.
At least that is what I think the reason is. If I’m wrong, please correct me
E666
January 30th, 2006
De los pocos kidz0rs que me causa admiracion ^_^
David T. Hunter
June 26th, 2006
You may be correct, however, I think the photos are shot from the same satellite, just on different dates. Still a very cool application however!
cerise
April 26th, 2007
hi,
I grew up in Oregon, IL, and where Google has “5th Street” marked, it’s actually 4th street. I know this because the house they say is at hill and 5th street is not my house!
Do you know if there’s a way to report this?
Cerise Trala
Jj
April 26th, 2007
Hi Cerise,
I just checked the streest you mention, So now I know where you live~, wohoo…
http://tinyurl.com/2q58q9
If you look at the hybrid map, there is a “one block” offset between the streets map and the satelite map, you can esaily notice looking at Gale st.
You can also go to this page:
http://local.google.com/support/bin/request.py
This page has further information on who to contact about this, since Google relies on other companies to mantain the map’s information:
http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/012529.html