Google Maps: City areas / quarters appearing in Dublin, Cork are all all wrong

Anteayer

Anyone else noticed that Google maps is basically inventing quarters that don't exist in Dublin and Cork or stretching districts.

I was looking at an address which is down as Capel Street, Rotunda, Dublin 1.

Meanwhile in Cork Kent Railway Station is now in Montenotte and Sullivan's Quay is in the Lough!

Where are they getting these district boundaries and new districts ? I mean some when has Dublin has an area called Rotunda ?!

spurious

They are using the old electoral wards I think.

Sonics2k

It's largely automated, information pulled from various sources. If the sources are out of date or incorrect, there's little to be done.

You can't expect Google to manually update each street and district in the world.

suicide_circus

i have certainly noticed google maps trying to bring me on routes that are unnecessarily awkward when in the car

L1011

spurious wrote: »

They are using the old electoral wards I think.

They are. And they are making other people use them as a result - nobody had referred to where I work as North Dock ever basically, but its now turning up in addresses all the time. Ditto "Ushers Quay" which was only ever used for the actual quay. Rotunda is also an ED

http://census.cso.ie/censusasp/saps/boundaries/eds_bound.htm

Anteayer

The Cork ones are definitely very inaccurate. They're probably adding them as Irish cities tend to not have proper district naming.

I find with my Toyota GPS it will randomly start using Irish language names and sometimes I can't follow it as I just don't know the places in Irish or they're not obvious translations.

It must be very confusing for tourists when you get something like use the left lane for (English phonetic rules used to pronounce unfamiliar place name as gaeilge)

topper75

It's only confusing if you rely on it as your sole resource.

I always keep a road atlas under my driver seat and most of the country has decent enough road signage, certainly on the key routes.

It's like spellcheck - if you don't have underlying knowledge to begin with, expect issues.

OldMrBrennan83

Just stick the eircode in when navigating. Job done.

Capt'n Midnight

https://www.townlands.ie so you can find within which barony you reside and whose overlord your allegiance should be pledged to

Victor

Anteayer wrote: »

I mean some when has Dublin has an area called Rotunda ?!

It seems it has had it for hundreds of years: https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/5718681

It still has the Rotunda A and Rotunda B electoral divisions.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/4271668
https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/4271667

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

https://www.townlands.ie so you can find within which barony you reside and whose overlord your allegiance should be pledged to

Baronies in Ireland were a later administrative convenience and were never associated with barons.

Anteayer

The problem though is that those electoral districts don't correspond with the geographical addresses. They're just relating to polling stations.

I don't know why Google's suddenly taken it upon itself to include them in addresses.

Victor

Anteayer wrote: »

The problem though is that those electoral districts don't correspond with the geographical addresses. They're just relating to polling stations.

No, electoral divisions, wards, etc. are only partly related to polling stations. Some electoral divisions have many polling stations. Some are combined with others and share a polling station.

Anteayer

Victor wrote: »

No, electoral divisions, wards, etc. are only partly related to polling stations. Some electoral divisions have many polling stations. Some are combined with others and share a polling station.

What I'm saying is they're useless as part of an address. They're used for a specific purpose and aren't urban quarters that anyone is familiar with the boundaries of.

Adding them to addressing on Google maps is just confusing.