There is no street here!

[taxguykarl]

Google maps still doesn't recognize some of the streets in my neck of the woods...some of which have been open for 6 years or longer.

[Racket_Man]

Years ago (and I mean YEARS ago I looked up OLD aerial photos to confirm this) the street I live one started at my block and ran west till it dead-ended about 2 miles away. sometime in the latter part of the 20th century the HS across the street from me took over a block section of that street right down the block from me for the campus. They blocked it off with gates that for the most part stay closed and locked and one side is a small parking lot.

Every now and then when I have to take a cab from my mechanics shop to my house the cabs GPS system INSISTS that the street is indeed one continuous road and the cab driver will almost try and take that route. I have told them just to go to the next street down (that dead ends into my street) and turn left there.

Funny thing about another area in my delivery area. It is the only gated community in our area. Every time we get an order the customer gives an incorrect address because he wants the delivery driver to call him. This is because the area has NOT been Google Street Mapped (gated community) NOR does it seem it has been mapped by any GPS system. SO If a delivery driver is using pure GPS they can not find the address.

The ONLY reason I know where all the house addresses are in this community is that I watched it being built 10 years ago (delivered quite a few lunch orders to the construction workers).

[CrazedClerkthe2nd]

Google Maps near my workplace shows a street extending into a Burger King parking lot to connect to the other side (there is no thru-traffic, the lot is fenced off). I've submitted corrections about it before; but it keeps coming back.

A GPS system of my friend in another city tells people to go down the wrong street to access a bridge. It seems to think there is an onramp at the spot that is actually the "scenic route" street going UNDER the bridge and you have to backup several blocks to get to that bridge.

A place I used to work had an address of 245 Langston Rd (NOT the actual address), the problem was, in the same area, albeit 25 minutes in the OTHER direction, you could find 245 Langsdon Rd.

Boy did we have some pissed off customers when their GPS auto routed them to the wrong one!

[MrSmiley]

Google Maps near my workplace shows a street extending into a Burger King parking lot to connect to the other side (there is no thru-traffic, the lot is fenced off). I've submitted corrections about it before; but it keeps coming back.

A GPS system of my friend in another city tells people to go down the wrong street to access a bridge. It seems to think there is an onramp at the spot that is actually the "scenic route" street going UNDER the bridge and you have to backup several blocks to get to that bridge.

[Kogarashi]

One of the mapping systems, MapQuest?, used to send cars to some stairs that it thought were the road... They were the connection between two sections of road, but they were NOT ROAD.

MapQuest's the one where I'd constantly joke that it'd send you halfway across the country when all you wanted was directions to the nearest grocery store. Thing is, I had a few incidents where that wasn't far from the truth.

[Minflick]

One of the mapping systems, MapQuest?, used to send cars to some stairs that it thought were the road... They were the connection between two sections of road, but they were NOT ROAD.

[Deserted]

Driving an idiot to a new (to him) workplace last night. The workplace was the local distribution center for Orange Apron Hardware. I've been to this place before, but the idiot insisted I was taking him to the wrong "front" entrance. Too bad there are only two entrances: the main employee entrance (which he insisted was NOT the front) and the truck entrance, which was definitely wrong (not to mentioned the fact that it's accessed from a different street).

him: My boss says we turn down this street.
me: There's no street here.
him: The map he sent says it's down this street.
me: The map is wrong. That street doesn't exist.
him: It says we turn here and follow the road around.
me: That's an apartment complex. It doesn't go through. Look up from your phone man, there is no street here!