Mike Dobson on the Exploring Local captured a whole raft of Google Maps FAIL maps, so do please check it out!

For example, the East Kilbride Expressway occurs over many parts of Scotland (when it should, yes, just occur on the east part of Kilbride), but not only that,

even small country tracks are given the same name! Here, the house’s driveway is wider than the mis named Expressway!

However, my favourite is this, for the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

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Google Maps rename the famous and busy London street The Strand to “Y Strand”.  FAIL

It’s been speculated that the Google map makers got this from the Welsh Wikipedia entry for the street,  http://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_Strand