Why is Google Maps so unreliable these days?

Google Maps data is very poor down here. I've switched to Here maps.

Google often shows footpaths as roads, or shows a road with a break in the middle (ie two dead-ends) when the road is actually continuous (or vice versa).

I've sent corrections to Google and watched as they changed it, only not to make it correct, but to make it wrong in a different way, despite clear and precise instructions...

But I just wonder... how does a large company like Google get its maps so wrong, when pretty much all the other maps (Bing, Here, Streetmap) show the correct data?

Also Google's satellite data is often 10+ years old.
 
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cainer said:
new google maps sucks, it takes ages to load, you have to drag/drop yellow man which you didnt have to do on the old one, on the old one you could just zoom all the way in and it'd become street view, also it throws up imagery along the bottom that i dont want/need.
seems they broke something that didnt need to be fixed
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Totally agree with this. Nothing wrong with the old google maps at all IMO.
 
FoxEye said:
Google Maps data is very poor down here. I've switched to Here maps.

Google often shows footpaths as roads, or shows a road with a break in the middle (ie two dead-ends) when the road is actually continuous (or vice versa).

I've sent corrections to Google and watched as they changed it, only not to make it correct, but to make it wrong in a different way, despite clear and precise instructions...
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It's not very difficult to fix these things yourself. I have added a load of footpaths round here, they just have to be verified by someone authorised...
 
We use chrome at work and it's terrible, displaying all the symptoms OP has, I just assumed it was slow shared bandwidth but it gets completely stuck a lot of the time.
 
Zogger said:
It's not very difficult to fix these things yourself. I have added a load of footpaths round here, they just have to be verified by someone authorised...
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You mean MapMaker? I've just seen that after reading your post. Have made an edit after battling the UI, let's see if anyone approves it.
 
FoxEye said:
Google maps is waaaaay more out of than a mere 5 years.

http://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/wiki/index.php?title=A30/Bodmin_-_Indian_Queens_Dualling

This stretch of the A30 was dualled with work being comeplete in June 2007. Google maps shows the A30 as fields, 8 years later...

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.4167524,-4.8459959,1803m/data=!3m1!1e3
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A lot is older a lot is newer. On google earth you can check previous images of the same location, the most up to date image isn't always used though. Cloud cover, bad light, that particular image coming out bad and they won't always show the most up to date part. Recently looking for a house and on rightmove and using google maps constantly, plenty of places in the uk have images up to 2012-2013, some are much older. Look through the history for any particular area and you'll see that some of the images are rubbish, some are great.
 
A mate of mine visited earlier and saw me messing with Google Maps because of this thread and asked me why mine is different because mine can be in 3D.
Can any of you see it in 3D?
if not I'm wondering if it's because I installed the Professional Google Earth version!

eg

googlemaps3d.jpg
 
Google Maps is in 3D for many cities now. It's been like that for months.

Performance is fine in Firefox.
 
Also noticed that my neighbours Budda feature in his back garden is on and he only finished that last August so our area is pretty much up to date.
Also a 4x4 Ford Pickup my mate won is up his drive and he won that earlier this year.
 
Companies seem to be updating their maps with LIDAR data in many areas. The positive is it's very accurate (within a metre or less usually) but the negative is it needs to be acquired by plane, not satellite. That's why it appears so patchily. Some places have it (like central London), others don't. You can see the change quite clearly if you go to central London and then move north. There's a big line where the earth just goes "flat".
 
They did balls it up a little. I find it very slow these days, very annoying to use .

I liked it before they made changes
 
They did a talk about the massive rendering changes and the reasons why. I cannot recall exactly why but it was a pretty valid reason, IIRC it was mainly to do with compute time on different zoom level rendering and achieving it in rear real time rather than pushing out pre-rendered views.
 
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