Google Maps Fail

[RainRat]

How route-finding software can fail in ways obvious to humans. Google Maps Fail

[Vanilla Skunk]

Reminds me of when it told me to go through richmond, burnaby, and coquitlam to go from white rock to langley.

[Kaji]

Fail google maps is fail XD

[Hadlock]

mmmmm, the scenic route :P

[RainRat]

Here's one that's actually kinda cool. The Google Street View car seems to have gone past the Bellfurs house while they were having a furmeet: http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&q=13918+SE+23rd+St,+Bellevue,+WA+98005,+USA&source=embed&ll=47.589928,-122.154193&spn=0.012706,0.028539&t=h&z=15&layer=c&cbll=47.590021,-122.154193&panoid=JuBMv5o5LdtKG-0FjX2T7A&cbp=12,78.73,,0,3.36

[Unition]

Here's a sad series of images.
The google mobile smokes a baby deer.  You can (could) scroll frame by frame as it tumbled through the air:

http://gizmodo.com/5141974/google-maps-car-hits-a-deer-records-entire-ordeal-on-google-maps

But they blurred everything out on the live maps.


If it makes you sad you can scroll backwards and the googlemobile is bringing the baby deer back to life!

[Silvermink]

Hey, it actually does have the Golden Ears Bridge... sort of. Still under construction. http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=golden+ears+bridge&sll=49.23077,-122.835302&sspn=0.01135,0.027208&ie=UTF8&ll=49.193484,-122.665272&spn=0.021315,0.054417&t=h&z=14

[Draaz]

Fail indeed.

[Hadlock]

woooooooooooow =/   "kayak across the pacific  ocean" ?

Not even  Chuck Norris could do that :P

[mArZiPaN!]

I believe it's been done.
Though I bleieve Google is the 'anti-christ' of organizations they do have a sense of humour

[Zack Fox]

woooooooooooow =/   "kayak across the pacific  ocean" ?

I'VE SEEN THAT TOO!
but it was on google earth when i looked for the way from my place to tokyo disneyland!
i lol'd so hard!!!

[Drake Wingfire]

Actually this maps fail sadly isn't just something native to google maps, I have a GPS in my car that does some stupid routes, half the time it trys to take the highway as ar as it can to a rural place meaning it would actually take longer than having to go trough longer back roads after... or it trys to take you off of a highway/ parkway to make you go through crappy city traffic to get to a destination.

Route finding doesn't seem to be a strong point in current GPS and mapping technology.

[Fargo]

This seems common to a lot of online mapping programs.

[Taiga]

Never had a problem with any GPS I've had...one google map though had me showing as driving through a body of water... :o

[Drake Wingfire]

Google maps for amphibious cars!  ;D