Street address errors in Google Maps
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Street address errors in Google Maps
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#2Google Maps' database contains nonsensically placed addresses of non-existent buildings. Worse, however, is that it also contains entries for real buildings that are mapped blocks or kilometers away from their actual location, leading to real-life consequences.
After two weeks of failing to fix the most significant error that I found I decided to blog about the issue in hopes of getting the attention of the Google Maps team, and also to share what I found.
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#3Google Maps has declined remarkably two or three years. It’s now an ML-brained mess. Like the rest of Google. Apple Maps is actually better now! That’s incredible.
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#4I wonder if trying to support strange international address styles (like cities where the numbers on the street are in order of building permit issued, not ordinal from a center point) and/or trying to scan imagery for addresses is confusing it.
The fact it gets the street wrong indicates a tokenization issue somewhere.
Any evidence it happens to non-numeric streets like Main Street or Martin Luther Blvd, or is it only 10th st types of things?
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#5Adresses are notoriously hard, and it varies from country to country, and even within countries. I've been working on Japanese address data, and while you may be able to trust Google with an address in the city, there's a large probability that it'll send you somewhere else (sometimes > 10km) in rural areas.
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#6If you directly use Google Maps Geocoding API you will see in response there what type of address is it and is it precise location or estimation.
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#7Google Maps has declined remarkably two or three years. It’s now an ML-brained mess. Like the rest of Google. Apple Maps is actually better now! That’s incredible.
It's strange how different peoples experiences are. I use Google maps all the time and it's been years since it made any significant mistake for me.
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#8Not sure it's related, but recently I tried to ask Google maps to find a way to a train station, and it confidently set the destination to the exit of a nearby highway. Yes, I double checked that I was using driving navigation, and it expected me to stop the car in the middle of the traffic.
And I have no idea what to do about this.
P.S. I never had good experience with reporting errors. Sometimes they are rejected despite absolutely being correct, or they end up having no effect at all.
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#9Hmm. I saw the behavior you describe, but I also got the expected directions: https://maps.app.goo.gl/YpVHhPf1U9Ytu6U86
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#10Google maps knows nothing but what the programmers tell it. It's not self aware yet. The engineers, using Google colored bikes rely on a broken street system in Palo Alto. I rode a bike around the campus wiping Macintoshes.