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On 8/17/2014 8:00 PM, Bill Horne W1AC wrote:
Is there a way for APRS users to submit corrections
to Google Maps and Mapquest?


As an example, Google maps shows my street address wrong.
Meaning, I have to offset the address a bit to show the
right location.

I've sent a message to Google using their "errors or
correction" on the map page and got a rather terse response
to the effect that they couldn't block my address.

Which was NOT what I asked. I asked them to correct the
street numbers to line up with the physical locations.

All things considered, simply based on the amount of data
involved, that you get anything even reasonably right is
amazing, and you just have to bear that in mind.

Pre-Google, Thomas Betts map books had their share of
errors as well.


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On Mon, 18 Aug 2014 11:18:12 EDT, Foxs Mercantile
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Pre-Google, Thomas Betts map books had their share of
errors as well.


Were you thinking of Thomas Brothers? Thomas & Betts is a
manufacturer of electrical connectors.

I was told many decades ago by the cartographers at the Automobile
Club of Southern California that they would put in known mistakes in
an effort to foil competitors' plagiarism. The ACSC maps were some of
the best street maps available at the time and were used quite a bit
in transmitter hunts even after they stopped being published.

73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane

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On 8/18/2014 1:59 PM, Phil Kane wrote:
On Mon, 18 Aug 2014 11:18:12 EDT, Foxs Mercantile
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Pre-Google, Thomas Betts map books had their share of
errors as well.


Were you thinking of Thomas Brothers? Thomas & Betts is a
manufacturer of electrical connectors.


Static buildup. That's my excuse. ;-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Guide

I was told many decades ago by the cartographers at the Automobile
Club of Southern California that they would put in known mistakes in
an effort to foil competitors' plagiarism.


Basically, they all did that and for the same reasons.


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