street names – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Tue, 29 Mar 2016 12:42:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg street names – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 A Map Error Roundup https://www.maproomblog.com/2016/03/a-map-error-roundup/ Tue, 29 Mar 2016 12:42:53 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=1354 More]]> A demolition company tore down the wrong house in Rowlett, Texas thanks to a Google Maps error that directed them one block over. As is often the case in new subdivisions, the street names were extremely similar: Cousteau Drive and Calypso Drive. [via] Something similar, though not quite map-related, happened on Sunday in Gatineau, Quebec (just down the highway from me), where fire crews rushed to Rue de la Terrasse-Eardley to fight a house fire, which would have been fine except that the fire was at a house on Rue de la Terrasse.

British military maps are being redrawn after a fighter jet nearly collided with a microlight: the maps had mislocated the civilian airfield by half a mile.

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