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Henry Street on maps

  • 18-12-2010 01:14PM
    #1
    Qualitymark
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    Odd thing. Henry Street - one of Dublin's three or four most important shopping streets - appears as if it's an unnamed lane on most electronic maps.

    Mind you, the maps are at a baby-steps stage; they have basic errors, shared by all, like Harold's Cross Road (the road leading through the Harold's Cross suburb) being called "Harold's Crossroad", and many instances where road names continue on to different roads that aren't named.

    But I wonder how the Henry Street one happened.


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  • #2
    KoolKid
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 24,790 Mod ✭✭✭✭KoolKid


    Looks fine here.
    henrystreetstreetdv.png
    Map Europe v860.3104


  • #3
    Qualitymark
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    But as you see, while the parallel street is named, Henry Street is not. Get rid of your search result term and back off a bit and you'll see what I mean.


  • #4
    Robus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 180 ✭✭Robus


    I noticed a street sign on Henry Street toady under the official one but in the same size and format which had only a Garmin post code on it. Who gave them permission to do that?


  • #5
    KoolKid
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    Qualitymark wrote: »
    But as you see, while the parallel street is named, Henry Street is not. Get rid of your search result term and back off a bit and you'll see what I mean.
    Here it is zoomed out a bit. Henry Street is named on the map.
    henrystreetstreet2dv.png


  • #6
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 21,534 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    Robus wrote: »
    I noticed a street sign on Henry Street toady under the official one but in the same size and format which had only a Garmin post code on it. Who gave them permission to do that?
    Nobody apparently. They've been reported to DCC who've issued a warning to Garmin, or whoever put them up and they have 4 weeks to respond.

    See this thread http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=69554836#post69554836 from post #467 onwards.


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  • #7
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 21,534 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    Qualitymark wrote: »
    Odd thing. Henry Street - one of Dublin's three or four most important shopping streets - appears as if it's an unnamed lane on most electronic maps.
    What electronic maps would those be?

    It's there on both Navteq and TeleAtlas maps which covers the majority of GPS manufacturers, it's on Google Maps and Google Earth and on Bing maps too.

    Like koolkid says, it's often a question of zoom level affecting what level of detail is shown, including street names.


  • #8
    Qualitymark
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    The first one I looked at was the iPhone map.

    I don't know how to actually show a specific place on the TomTom if I'm not at that place, so can't look again at it now.


  • #9
    KoolKid
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 24,790 Mod ✭✭✭✭KoolKid


    I can't do anything with an error I can't reproduce.
    If its TomTom on the iPhone app can you supply me with the map version.


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