Paul Montgomery ([info]paradox0220) wrote,
@ 2008-07-07 10:04:00
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Don't rely on Google Maps
In the last few weeks, Google Maps has fairly consistently given me the wrong location while the same exact search in Yahoo Maps works perfectly. Several others in the office have noticed this as well.

Examples:
"2804 North IH – 35, Austin, TX"
Try in Google (half way to San Antonio) and then in Yahoo. Yahoo even tells me the restaurant that is located there that I was looking up.

Another example where I had a conference recently. Google maps made several people late:
"3401 South IH-35, Austin, TX"

Anyone else noticing this? Anyone know someone at Google who would have care points/pull to fix this?



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Interstate vs Interstate Highway
[info]ivo
2008-07-07 03:54 pm UTC (link)
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=3401+South+I-35,+Austin,+TX works correctly. Apparently, I35 is not called IH35 in Austin...

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Re: Interstate vs Interstate Highway
[info]paradox0220
2008-07-07 04:06 pm UTC (link)
Interesting. Still makes google sketchy as if you clip and paste the address given on the location's web site, it has IH instead of just I in the address and you get the wrong location.

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Re: Interstate vs Interstate Highway
[info]dopplertx
2008-07-08 03:37 am UTC (link)
I noticed the IH-35-related issue when I was geocoding a bunch of hotel addresses for work. I don't remember the exact fix, but I think it had something to do with moving the S or N to the other side of IH-35. (e.g. nnnn S IH-35 as opposed to nnnn IH-35 S).

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