Google’s refusal to vary an error in Google Maps sends tons of of vacationers to the improper location

The unique iPhone didn’t characteristic GPS so Google Maps used cell-site triangulation to find out the situation of the person. By the point Android 2.0 debuted on the Motorola DROID in November 2009, turn-by-turn instructions had been a free characteristic for Android customers. When Apple Maps changed Google Maps on iOS in December 2012, Google Maps with free turn-by-turn instructions was obtainable free of charge from the App Retailer. Since then, Google has turned Maps into the Swiss Military Knife of navigation apps by including options that do extra than simply get you from level “A” to level “B” shortly and safely.

For instance, whenever you get to level “B” Google Maps will inform you the place it’s best to keep the night time, get pleasure from a meal, discover leisure and landmarks, seize a espresso, and extra. However once more, the recognition of the app all is determined by how precisely it’ll take you to your vacation spot. Whereas Google Maps has a great document, often it has taken customers out of the best way and even the improper manner. This has occurred once more as tons of of vacationers in India counting on Google Maps to get them to the Kollur Mookambika Temple ended up 60 miles away.

Utilizing Google Maps to get to Kollur Mookambika Temple in India is getting folks misplaced. | Picture credit-Mangaluru Taxi

Apparently this is a matter that has led drivers to by accident arrive at a village referred to as Nandalike as an alternative of pulling as much as the Temple. However it seems that increasingly Google Maps customers are ending up within the distant village. The problem is attributable to a easy error that Google can simply repair however for some cause, it hasn’t. The app is labeling a smaller temple devoted to Goddess Mookambikain in Nandalike as Kollur Mookambika Temple and is sending drivers there by mistake. 

You possibly can see that the names of the 2 temples are related sufficient to be complicated however this should not be such a tough downside to care for. To indicate you ways one mistake in Google Maps can have a big affect, one Nadalike resident mentioned that “tons of of automobiles” arrived within the village over the past three months and said that Google must appropriate this downside. Even whereas utilizing Google Maps, drivers heading to the Kollur Mookambika Temple want to observe the highway indicators to verify they’re on the right track.

“For the previous three months, tons of of automobiles have been misdirected to Nandalike. The entry within the map must be corrected to alleviate the difficulties confronted by vacationers,” mentioned an area resident dwelling in Nandalike. Regardless that a number of vacationers have reported the issue to Google, the wrong labeling of the smaller temple has not been mounted and continues to today.