Comment by abenga
21 days ago
The road outside my house was widened into a highway more than five years ago. To this day, Google Maps still asks me to take detours that were only active during construction. I have reported this ad nauseum. Nothing. It also keeps telling me to turn from the service lanes onto the highway at points that only pedestrians walk across. More than once, it's asked me to take illegal turns or go the wrong way up a one way street (probably because people on motorbikes go that).
Whatever method they use to update their data is broken, or they do not care about countries our size enough to make sure it is reasonably correct and up-to-date.
That's interesting, and they may have different "lines" into the "map change" department; I reported both a previous residence and previous work location (in Downtown Atlanta, yet!) both having their google map "pins" in the wrong spot, and both were fixed within a week.
Sounds 100 percent like a government issue? Local gov just forgot to update whatever maps/data source of truth that they publish publicly?
Sounds like you need to report it at your municipality or whatever local gov is responsible for keeping their GIS up to date.
Maybe it is, but does Google actually get data from government maps? Isn't it mostly satellite data + machine learning from people's movement by tracking phones?