Google Moves City Hall
By Brett - 9/5/08 - 10:09 am
New game: Where's Mumbles?
(Google Maps has a history of getting landmarks in Boston wrong. A year or two ago, they had Kendall Station about 2 blocks east of its real location.)
Comments
Appropriate
I think it's appropriate that it's pointing at the Dunkin' Donuts.
I never noticed City Hall had such a "bottomless pit" motif running through the center of it when viewed from above...that's also pretty appropriate.
That's to confuse the terrorists
Them and the hoards of students looking for parking permits.
When Google is wrong, it's *very* wrong
Google Maps also thinks you can take a left turn from Somerville Ave onto Mass Ave in Porter Square.
How about a U turn?
A few weeks ago, Maps directed me outbound on Route 2 in Cambridge to keep right at Alewife and then make a U turn just past the intersection. Fun!
Yikes
Try entering "City Hall, Boston" in the search box for Googlemaps.com.
They moved it about 4 miles south to Grove Hall in Roxbury.