Google Maps Has Become Very Inaccurate

At first I blamed my iPhone. the Maps appli­ca­tion was miss­ing a lot of streets, both new and old. On some trips it had me mak­ing lefts when I should be mak­ing rights, on other trips the des­ti­na­tion was not accu­rate once you turned onto the street.

It may have pleased investors to put an ax on Tele Atlas and NAVTEQ but I have seen the effects first hand. on the aver­age day, I have 5 appoint­ments that has to be mapped out, out of the five loca­tions, two or three would have some type of inac­cu­racy. I started print­ing my maps directly from my dis­patch por­tal, and I still have the same problems.

Thank­fully I have a Yahoo mod­ule in my por­tal, and now faith­fully rely on Yahoo to pro­vide accu­rate direc­tions, so far so good. Too bad Yahoo isn’t becom­ing the default search engine for the iPhone, it could have allowed them to get a map appli­ca­tion on the phone too, perhaps.

Have you noticed the trend with Google Maps? Let us know.