Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Google Maps Puzzle Fail

So, I'm not 100% sure why this is, but the George Washington National Forest boundaries (in green) seem a little off in this Google map:


I'm just guessing here, but I believe that the green wavy border should match up with the blue wavy line. So they'd look more like this:


It may not be Google's fault. I don't know where they get their National Forest boundary data. It may be a magnetic/true north issue, or an astronaut sneezed near a GPS satellite when they were collecting the data. Who knows. I'd just like it fixed. It's a eye sore, and obvious mistake. Come on Google...
http://maps.google.com/?ll=38.797176,-78.408394&spn=0.156531,0.439453&z=12

1 comment:

John Meyers said...

Streams are known to move around a bit over time.
Is it possible that the boundaries shown were accurate sometime ago?