• @pixelscience@lemm.ee
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    12 years ago

    I guess we had different experiences, these were relatively new areas where the neighborhood was developed after the map and it didn’t seem to be an issue. I suppose the satellite view probably confirmed it easily.

    • @sudafossil@lemmy.ml
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      22 years ago

      mine was extremely old roads, had lived there all my life and noticed that two roads in the country with entirely different names were divided by a gully about 200 meters wide and 60 meters deep with NO road or bridge EVER existing there through it. but google argued it was really a road.

      other was within 2km of that area, a road into a farmers field.

      i sorta suspect they were items added in to spot if someone’s stealing googles proprietary map data. like how a dictionary company will throw in a few random fake words to see if anyone copies their text and publishes it as their own.