The Corrib is on Google maps!

Mrs OBumble

Look:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=&sll=53.273797,-9.05178&sspn=0.105731,0.352592&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=&ll=53.276505,-9.052048&spn=0.105725,0.352592&z=12

I know some others here had requested it, and I had too. Well done to all of us!

Now I just have to revise some bus maps, to take out the hand-drawn approximation I'd put in for the meantime ...


(Yeah, ok, they haven't got it quite right yet, joining up to the Lough would have been a good idea, and is so obvious from the satellite views ... but it's a lot better than it was.)

biko

Finally!

They got the airport correct too.

Cloonacauneen is wrong but they corrected the shading around my parents house - it was funny seeing our farm shaded in as if it was built up.

joeKel73

Great improvement!

Dun Aengus Dock down at the Harbour is a bit messed up... far too long..

Mrs OBumble

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They got the airport correct too.

Yeah, I'd complained about that too ... it was making the Oranmore maps look funny the way it was.

But they've done something odd all right: there are a lot of places with "Dunkelin By" after their name, no idea what it means.

Castlegar finally looks like it's in the right place, though. It seemed to appear all over the place before.

They've taken out the shaded area for NUIG .. not sure that was a good idea, it looks like the only place-marker for it is something with a review by some student ...

But someone really should put in a bug-report about Ballybrit Cresent (wrong name, and it shows road that ain't there). And the council have recently put up roadsigns saying that the road up to the industrial estates is called "Parkmore Rd".

Little by little ...

DeepSleeper

I'm not sure when they fixed the NUIG shading out west, but there was a thread here a while ago about it - they were indicating that NUIG owned the western shore of Lough Corrib for miles out beyond Oughterard into Connemara, but that is fixed now.:rolleyes:

The 'Dunkelin By' thing is obviously coming from their source data and they haven't edited it out - it refers to Dunkellin Barony and would normally come after common places names to differentiate them from others elsewhere in Galway - For example, there might be two places called Ballybeg, so they each get the barony within which they are located put after them so you can tell one from the other. You'd see it on Ordnance Survey 6" maps and the like, but not normally on road maps, Discovery Series etc.

charlemont

JustMary

JustMary wrote: »

But they've done something odd all right: there are a lot of places with "Dunkelin By" after their name, no idea what it means.

It is the barony it is in - a very old but still used division.

The barony of Clare is another one. (nothing to do with the county - all to do with the river)
Edit: I think anyways at least - it could be a surname.
Electoral division has also popped up.

Are google gearing up for an attempt at postcodes maybe?

Sponge Bob

Mary, I click your link and I see a crappy low res satellite photo of Galway that was on Google maps for years......now what ??

DeepSleeper

Switch from satellite to map in the top right corner and now see the river where there wasn't one before...

Sherifu

Sponge Bob wrote: »

Mary, I click your link and I see a crappy low res satellite photo of Galway that was on Google maps for years......now what ??

I think we don't hang out in google maps enough Bob, kinda went over my head too. Apparently they've made some changes at Google HQ :pac: or Tele Atlas, whatever, it's good to see things improving anyway.

Go team.

WeirdKen

Ah, I thought that was a google thing, not a galway thing... Now it all makes sense...

Mrs OBumble

Sherifu wrote: »

Apparently they've made some changes at Google HQ :pac: or Tele Atlas, whatever, it's good to see things improving anyway.

Go team.

Indeed.

Tele Atlas maintain the geo-database that underlies what we see in Google maps.

They have a nice wee feedback tool that you and I can use to tell them that something is wrong. Every so often, they bundle up a whole batch of fixes, and update the copy of the database that Google use - that's why we see a number of changes at the same time.

I suspect that the baroney thing might be to do with the way Google uses the data, rather than the data itself. But the river and airport fixes are definitely Tele Atlas's.