How Google’s Bad Data Wiped a Neighborhood Off the Map
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How Google’s Bad Data Wiped a Neighborhood Off the Map
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#2Neighborhood definitions that don't represent formal political subdivisions are an obscure corner of the universe that a few people embed themselves in and exert control over. It sounds like this case was more about the city 'rebranding' than bad data.
In my small city, there's a few designated "neighborhood names". A couple are names reflective of the "official" neighborhood associations that exist and are part of an association of neighborhood associations in the city. Others are related to old subdivison names from the 1920/30s that are out of common use.
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#3Good grief. That's an awful lot of words to convey a very simple story. Here's an 80% reduced summary which is still way too long for the actual information conveyed https://smmry.com/https://onezero.medium.com/how-googles-bad...
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#4Click bait. Not Google's fault. Third party data wasn't accurate in the eyes of the residents.
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#5Neighborhood definitions that don't represent formal political subdivisions are an obscure corner of the universe that a few people embed themselves in and exert control over. It sounds like this case was more about the city 'rebranding' than bad data. In my small city, there's a few designated "neighborhood names". A couple are names reflective of the "official" neighborhood associations that exist and are part of a…
Often times the rebranding is mostly by realtors who want to associate with a neighborhood with more cachet or conversely to disassociate from a neighborhood with bad cachet.
No, no, it’s not the tenderloin, it’s lower nob hill (just making that up). But that’s how it goes.
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#6Is this really such a big deal? I mean this is one long article for a simple data mistake that was rectified.
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#7Neighborhood definitions that don't represent formal political subdivisions are an obscure corner of the universe that a few people embed themselves in and exert control over. It sounds like this case was more about the city 'rebranding' than bad data. In my small city, there's a few designated "neighborhood names". A couple are names reflective of the "official" neighborhood associations that exist and are part of a…
Often times the rebranding is mostly by realtors who want to associate with a neighborhood with more cachet or conversely to disassociate from a neighborhood with bad cachet. No, no, it’s not the tenderloin, it’s lower nob hill (just making that up). But that’s how it goes.
It isn't truly a real estate rebrand unless there is some stomach churning cutesy name, like "LoNo"!
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#8Sounded like they were talkin about Palestine for a second..
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#9In any given city, there’s going to be widespread disagreement about the boundaries of many neighborhoods and even if they exist given that “neighborhoods” can be the creation of a developer that no one local pays any attention to. Some cities seem to have greater agreement while others have neighborhoods and communities that are almost wholly informally and loosely defined by locals.
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#10As noted by other comments here, this is quite a lightweight article. Not that the residents don't have a valid complaint, but the solution is really quite simple.
I have direct experience with something like this myself. My Grandfather homesteaded in Montana in 1911, and the land remains in the family to this day. My Aunt Elsie, who was a force to be reckoned with, had the name of the road changed successfully. So their address had the family name. I noticed that Google did not have the name, so i simply clicked on the button at the bottom that says "send feedback". I noted the post office had that as the name and one other reference. I got mail back months later refusing to change the notation. I sent the request again perhaps a year later, and this time they did change it. It is there today.
While I understand the communities distress, it appears from the story that nobody attempted to contact Google.
And you don't have to be a city official to do so.