Google Maps and Earth: where do they get their Irish placenames?

Dionysus

Does anybody know the answer to this question?

I was checking up my parents' home on Google Maps and it's on a bóithrín with a name none of us have ever heard of. Having a few moments to spare I contacted the Ordnance Survey as I assumed Google must be getting their placenames from them. Ordnance Survey had no such record of this name and, in fact, have no name on our cul de sac at all. The Ordnance Survey man went further and told me that he and his colleagues were discussing this recently as other people have brought similar placename problems to them and they were collectively at a loss as to where Google is getting these names.

So, does anybody know where Google is getting its Irish placenames from, and how it's getting some/many of them wrong?

Thanks.

Pherekydes

Dionysus wrote: »

Does anybody know the answer to this question?

I was checking up my parents' home on Google Maps and it's on a bóithrín with a name none of us have ever heard of. Having a few moments to spare I contacted the Ordnance Survey as I assumed Google must be getting their placenames from them. Ordnance Survey had no such record of this name and, in fact, have no name on our cul de sac at all. The Ordnance Survey man went further and told me that he and his colleagues were discussing this recently as other people have brought similar placename problems to them and they were collectively at a loss as to where Google is getting these names.

So, does anybody know where Google is getting its Irish placenames from, and how it's getting some/many of them wrong?

Thanks.

Have a look at a satellite image as seen on Google Earth. You can see the names are actually there on the ground. :pac:

policarp

They Google them....

swarm.of.bees

Ask the good folk at Google -

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/maps/ask?hl=en

Ponster

You can report the problem here and submit the correct name :

http://earth.google.com/support/bin/request.py?&contact_type=data

It's a Google Earth site but applies to Google Map also.

x in the city

Dionysus wrote: »

Does anybody know the answer to this question?

I was checking up my parents' home on Google Maps and it's on a bóithrín with a name none of us have ever heard of. Having a few moments to spare I contacted the Ordnance Survey as I assumed Google must be getting their placenames from them. Ordnance Survey had no such record of this name and, in fact, have no name on our cul de sac at all. The Ordnance Survey man went further and told me that he and his colleagues were discussing this recently as other people have brought similar placename problems to them and they were collectively at a loss as to where Google is getting these names.

So, does anybody know where Google is getting its Irish placenames from, and how it's getting some/many of them wrong?

Thanks.

dont believe everything you read on the interweb

r3nu4l

Not just Ireland, a street I used to live on in Cambridge was misnamed Argyll Street, despite the street name being visible in pictures on Street View. I reported it and they corrected it

They get some places wrong alright, they have Orchard Road in Clondalkin listed as Orchard Lane.

danniemcq

God yeah they spelt Rathmullen Rathmullan. the dumbasses