Fail Maps

Journalist gets a fact wrong. No fail here, but….

Journalist assumes that people trying to correct the fact are fighting amongst themselves and are nasty.

MAJOR BLOG FAIL

techcrunch.com/2010/04/17/cloudmades-openstreetmap-surges-on-wikipedia-like-user-passion/#comments

The comments are worth reading, pretty much every commenter including the CEO of Cloudmade and OpenStreetMap Foundation board members try to clear up a small misunderstanding.

Just a misunderstanding by Michael Arrington:

Many people describe CloudMade’sOpenStreetMap project

Bicker amongst yourselves if you like, but this isn’t the forum for it.

again, I think you guys are trying to drag me into your battles. it’s quite clear who controls the project.

no, it’s cutting through the bs and getting to the core issues.

what amazes me is how nasty this community is. and with that, comments are closed. CM and OSM, you’re on your own. Good luck battling Google.

Nasty people how dare you correct me!

Update, if you find that they have deleted the comments you can Download the article with comments here.

Update on the update : see comments, their comments have been disabled, but can be viewed. Anyhow. Comments are disabled on that post, which is FAIL too.

Here’s a great funny blog all about Google Maps Fails I love it!

Appears Google is making Wales smaller and smaller by the day – or enlarging England!

The BBC reports:

Allison Osterwald knew she had to enter England when driving from Swansea to Birmingham but did not expect it on the M4 slip road for nearby Port Talbot.

When looking on Google Earth for directions, the web-based satellite mapping service told her to ‘merge onto M4 via the ramp… Entering England’.

College student Ms Osterwald, 40, said: “They are making Wales smaller by the day.”

Allison Osterwald knew she had to enter England when driving from Swansea to Birmingham but did not expect it on the M4 slip road for nearby Port Talbot.

When looking on Google Earth for directions, the web-based satellite mapping service told her to ‘merge onto M4 via the ramp… Entering England’.

College student Ms Osterwald, 40, said: “They are making Wales smaller by the day.”

Not suprisingly, this institution FAILs due to their innate evilness. They blocked this site from doing a cool thing with their maps.

You can read more  info here from Gavin’s Blog.

(from Mapperz)

UPDATE:
Gavin writes in the comments that the site is back up. Woo.

BBC Weather Map Heatwave Fail.

Thanks to Mapperz for this classic.

Streetview captures or is captured by something….

(Screenshot for those without javascript)

The comments on Reddit are great:

I felt so alone looking around inside of it.. I’m scared hold me.

From http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2009-02-06-n21.html

The guardian put Where’s The Path? in the top 100 websites. As a result, more than a few people visit it, incurring the “absurd” tile number restrictions that non-commercial OpenSpace users will come across.

Wheres the path, wheres the sense with the OS

Three Norwegian tourists came under fire and one was shot after the satellite navigation system in their car guided them straight into one of Rio de Janeiro’s most dangerous slums.

They were on the way to the airport, and apparently, the Sat Nav told them to go into one of the worst slums in Rio. One of them was shot in the shoulder.

from: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081125/od_nm/us_norwegians

This poor fella only lived down the road from his local store, but the route suggested a more scenic way.

from:

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/McDialup.aspx

from : http://www.thedossingtimes.com/blog/2008/08/08/rte-get-the-wrong-georgia/

I’m sure there’s some other great examples of this particular fail map…let me know if you find a good un.

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