This saga started back in October of 2007 when I first submitted a ‘change request’ for an incorrectly named road in the New River Beach area of NB. I submitted the change directly to NAVTEQ and eventually got a response back from them in May of 2008 saying that they had made the change. I wondered how long it would take before I saw the change on Google Maps. Well just the other day I was playing around with my iPhone and the Google Maps App on it and decided I’d go and have a look. Turns out that Google has indeed picked up the name change, as you can see from the photo accompanying this post. The weird thing is that when I visit google maps from a compter, it still shows the old name – see here. So, it looks like the maps being used by the Google Maps application on the iPhone are more up to date than those available to everyone else. What’s up with that?
UPDATE: I was really curious about this, so I did a bit more digging. It seems that the maps that are available through Google’s API for maps are also the more up to date maps. I checked out the maps at gmap-pedometer.com and they too have the updated road name. Just to be sure, I checked out the maps on activesteve.com as well and sure enough – updated road name there too. Interesting that they don’t use the most up-to-date maps for themselves… BTW – the ‘most up-to-date’ does’t mean they are correct, I’ve seen at least a couple of errors in the maps so far.
The new highway through NB is also not updated in google maps but alas it is updated in the pedometer, btw the way it is only 2km shorter even though it looks to be much shorter.