Comments on: Hey Google Maps, Why Is Randolph, VT In A Lake?

By: cydonos

cydonos — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:56:55 +0000

Seems to show the right location now. Funny how fast a problem can be fixed when it suddenly becomes publicly embarrasing

By: carold45

carold45 — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 12:42:20 +0000

Google maps tried to send me the wrong way down a narrow one-way street. They fixed it promptly when I reported it to them.

By: dreinn

dreinn — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 13:33:25 +0000

Google is convinced that there is a Dunkin’ Donuts in a little residential community near my brother’s place in West Chester, PA. I went out one morning to bring back doughnuts for everybody, assuring them that my Droid could direct me. (Incidentally, Chrome’s spellcheck just highlighted “Droid.”)

And instead, I was gone for an hour, after being misdirected to some dude’s house in a cul-de-sac – right address and everything – but I didn’t go up to his front door and demand doughnuts. Tacky.

I then got pretty determined – “Doughnuts or death” sorta thing – and it took me an hour to drive to the nearest Dunkin’ and back. (Well, okay, it shouldn’t have taken that long, but then I turned off the GPS thing and figured I could make it on my own. Instead, I got hopelessly lost and then gave in half an hour later. So it should have taken only like 20 minutes.)

By: tqwhite

tqwhite — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 12:59:50 +0000

In one month last fall, I clocked five errors serious enough to make me uncomfortable relying on Google Maps. One was egregious but understandable (my mother’s house/fishing resort in the far rural areas was said to be about twenty five miles away; heaven help the customer that relies on Google). The others were occasions where I ended up driving around for twenty minutes before I finally called the destination for help, only to find that they were a couple of miles away and Google just got it wrong.

In a couple of those cases, I went back to the web to try to debug the problem and figured it out: Google Maps gave me bad directions. No mistyping, mispelling or confusing address. Google Maps is simply unreliable. Weird and painful, if you ask me.