[Talk-us] Google's Park Outlines?

Jeffrey Ollie jeff at ocjtech.us
Wed Apr 14 13:39:55 BST 2010


Has anyone noticed that the park outlines in Google maps has been
changing?  They will either shrink and not cover parts of the park
that it did before or they will expand and cover areas that
are not part of the park.

As an example:

http://tools.geofabrik.de/mc/?mt0=mapnik&mt1=googlemap&lon=-93.58291&lat=41.73747&zoom=15

Heritage Park should be on both sides of the creek.

Michael park has been moved completely, it is actually a small
neighborhood park at the corner of NE 7th St and NE Wanda Dr.

The outlines for Crestbruck Park and Sunrise Park are fairly accurate.

I guess this is a win for Open Street Map but a lose for people that
use Google Maps to get places.  Is this just fallout from Google's
switch away from commercial map data providers?

-- 
Jeff Ollie




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