Dorchester confuses Google

Adam Pieniazek discovers Google has moved Ashmont north of Savin Hill.

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If only there were some way to report a problem on the map...

Some sort of button that they could put on the lower-right corner of the map that said "Report a problem" and then the company who made the map (Sanborn, not Google) would correct the error. Alas, to live in such a world...

Two clicks away

It's under Help/Fix a Problem. I actually had success correcting a mistaken reference in the Fenway.

"Report a problem" is located....in the lower right corner!

X (not verified) complains that, "If only there were some way to report a problem on the map...Some sort of button that they could put on the lower-right corner of the map that said "Report a problem" and then the company who made the map (Sanborn, not Google) would correct the error. Alas, to live in such a world..."

Either our X is extremely obtuse, or our social descent is such that I need to get my irony meter recalibrated at the extremely low range.

Whatever. "Report a problem" is located....in the lower right corner!

I used it once to point out a raft of mislabeling in Roxbury Crossing. It took some time, but they largely straightened things out—except for ghostly Greyhound Lines at the end of Station Street.



Saying farewell to the Third Decade

Let's see how it goes

Just submitted a couple of corrections. Received e-mail acknowledgements. We'll see what happens.

Just submitted a correction

Just submitted a correction for Ashmont with a link to this map:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dorchester_MA_Neighborhoods.png

I'm fairly confident that...

... X was being 100% ironic, at least in every sense of the word as I understand it.

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