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.

Why are these strange names occuring? Like the last FAILmaps post where The Strand seemed to have the Welsh Name…

Mike clarifies why:

..Did you know that Google is getting ready to toss out the Tele Atlas data it has been using and launch its own database of the UK, so it has been loading its own data in anticipation of the event? You just have to love it when conflation runs wild. However, Google appears to have reached some new lows this time, apparently mixing data from fr.wikepedia.org and other sources to augment its knowledge base of the UK.

Expect to see a few similar Google Map FAILS in the future.