City Suffers After It Vanishes From Google Maps

[doped]

[citation][nom]Renegade_Warrior[/nom]Last I checked, Google can't even list the locations of businesses correctly or even street numbers for that matter. [/citation]

I follow that, it ain't too precise here either, but still in the general location. The next street or longer down the road. Don't rely on it that much, fortunately we've got other map services for more precise location of road numbers.

 

[tommydyhr]

[citation][nom]haunted one[/nom]Google's becoming very powerful. While I like their policies right now and support them, who knows how long that face will last? Once you have sufficient power, and the board of directions changes, you never know what'll happen.........[/citation]
So enlighten me... What WILL happen..?

 

[cj_online]

[citation][nom]eklipz330[/nom]hmm... call me crazy but i think i've found the solution to the Israeli/Palestinian debacle......QUICK, GET ME THE PRESIDENT![/citation]

Don't need to get the president for that... it's painstakingly easy to decipher this one... unless of course all is NOT "fair and just" which indeed seems to be the case...

 

[arges86]

Although a dependency in one company can make it easy for abuse, it also makes it easier to streamline things and have many different devices and services work together.

 

[DjEaZy]

... sue google...

 

[JimmiG]

Google Maps shows bus stops and fast food restaurants and things like that correctly. But when I wanted a library or a gym, it actually directed me to a completely different city, 40 miles away. There's a gym and a library less than half a mile from my home...

 

[The_Trutherizer]

Not uncomfortable at all. The sheer benefit Google has brought me in my life is indescribable. As long as what goes into Google stays in Google I am more than happy.

 

[mosu]

I can be googled, therefore I exist

 

[RogueKitsune]

I would say that is horrifying, but then i look at my life and realize how much it revolves around Google.... so its cool.

 

[alyoshka]

Surprisingly, it's Google that's offering this service through the internet, can you imagine what'd happen to all of us if the net disappeared for a day or two?
The gEarth would be erased........🙁 Darth Vader would rule.....

 

[alyoshka]

Why don't people just step out of their homes and take a look around town or go for a walk, they'd know what to do where then having to google for it, funny, in my town I guess, I'd be able to go around blindfolded knowing what to do where.....
Yeah, I can understand it if a person would be going to another place to check out stuff (whats where) but sheeeesh not in my town, I guess I'd never feel happy being that handicapped 🙁
This reminds me of kids who like to see pictures and learn like all those A for Apple and B for Bat kind of stuff, I have a feeling the human brain has got into some sort of eletro dysfunctional syndrome in places like this.
For gods sake a yellow pages and a street map in the yellow pages would be a lot more fun then looking into a phone screen to see where I'm going.... I have heard you can run out of storage space in the hardware world, I have still to come across a brain that has no space for absorbing visuals left in it.....

 

[alyoshka]

LOL!! To the author, he ought to rely more on his barber for his haircut.. or he'll have to Google for His hair too.......

 

[swamprat]

It's more minor, but there are a few stations around near London that aren't on Google maps - which of course feeds through to estate agents' maps etc. It's a pain but I wonder how much effect it has.

 

[cp8427]

Personally, I'd prefer to stay off the map 😉

 

[irtehyar]

Sunrise provides my water, they better not disappear!

 

[Kahless01]

google has always been a word, these people are idiots. its a 1 with 100 zeros after it. its just been turned into a verb because people are stupid.

 

[Kahless01]

they just changed the spelling a bit

 

[C00lIT]

God forbid google goes down, I will be soooooo SCREWED.

I am a tech, I rely on google for troubleshooting computer issues, error codes...

Without google I am screwed as "BING", Yahoo and so on ... just aren't as good... and I tried them for the fun of it.

 

[zak_mckraken]

While reading the headline, I was sure that the city was considering suing Google for that. I'm glad they just find it "inconvenient" and not account the search giant for that. I mean, Google provide maps as a tool, not as an essential service.

 

[megamanx00]

heh