Google maps mistakes

Posted on January 29, 2006 by Jj

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:

Google maps error

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 )

Weird buildings

In the picture 2 buildings are shown, whose pictures were taken from different perspectives. This is (almost) what happens:

buildings

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 :)

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  • http://chichaplanet.org E666

    De los pocos kidz0rs que me causa admiracion ^_^

  • http://www.300bucks.ca David T. Hunter

    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!

  • http://none cerise

    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

    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

  • http://googlemaps.com Heather

    the directions to 30 State Avenue, Carlisle, PA 17013 are not right.

  • http://googlemaps.com Heather

    The directions to 30 State Avenue, Carlisle, PA 17013 are still wrong.