Fail Maps

Google Maps Fail Blog

joe — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:01:27 +0000

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

Country Definition fail

joe — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:03:47 +0000

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

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.”

Ordnance Survey FAIL

joe — Mon, 18 May 2009 17:26:57 +0000

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.

Heatwave Fail (bbc weather map)

joe — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 17:24:30 +0000

BBC Weather Map Heatwave Fail.

Thanks to Mapperz for this classic.

Google Streetview Singularity

admin — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 14:31:05 +0000

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

Ordnance Survey absurd OpenSpace restrictions FAIL

joe — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:41:02 +0000

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

GPS guides tourists to deathtrap

joe — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:56:18 +0000

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

Sears route fail

joe — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:16:04 +0000

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

Georgia War Fail

joe — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:37:59 +0000

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.

Fail Wales

joe — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:31:08 +0000

From a couple of years ago http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/3715512.stm