Catalog of Errors

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Many commercially available maps contain errors. Some of these are unintentional, others are deliberate (see Copyright Easter Eggs). This page catalogs known errors.

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Europe

Germany

Several thousand typos have been found by comparing OSM and lists of roads (Straßenschlüssel). See Talk:North_Rhine-Westphalia, Talk:Baden-Württemberg and Talk:Bavaria with parts Talk:Oberbayern and Talk:Niederbayern

Country Town Street Name Error Source Description Location
Germany Darmstadt Steubenplatz mapquest.de/NAVTEQ-2006
(same for expedia/NAVTEQ-2004)
(no direct link - Search for steubenplatz/darmstadt and zoom in) "Hindenburgstraße" (yellow background) and "Am alten Bahnhof" (white) are both "Steubenplatz", only the small part between Bismarckstraße and the unnamed white street to the east ("Friedrichstraße") is "Am alten Bahnhof" --- funny thing: the search function locates "Steubenplatz" correctly. Google has the correct names [1] but shows the street as separated onways (simple 4 lane street), M&G below has that error too [2]
Germany Darmstadt Steubenplatz [3] "Am alten Bahnhof" isn't correct, see above [4]
Germany Eschborn Helfmann-Park Google/Teleatlas Out-of-date (2 years ?) "Helfmann-Park" has now a connection from the NE end on the edge of the gray area (fixed when i checked that again 01-nov-2006) [5]
Germany Griesheim Berliner Straße GoYellow/Tele Atlas no public street there (access to a car dealer's garage - might be derived from aerial view) (Google has the same Map now) [6]

[7]

Germany Homburg Kraepelinstraße Google/Teleatlas Kraepelinstraße is no one-way street (fixed when i checked that again 01-nov-2006) [8]
Germany Homburg Saarpfalz-Center Google/Teleatlas Saarpfalz-Center - I don't know what they have drawn there ... looks like the underground parking, but even that is shifted [9]
Germany Homburg various Google/Teleatlas Several Errors:-


(1) "Burgweg" starts at the end of "Zu den Höhlen"
(2) "Am Schloßberg" is a stairway that starts in a half angle between the drawn streets and continues parallel to the drawn street, what they show here is a part of "Schloßbergstraße"
(3) the connection between "Marktplatz" and "Karlsbergstraße" looks wrong (the street on the place has a curve before the "Klosterstraße", "Markplatz" connects almost straight to the "Karlsbergstraße"
(4) the west part of the "Schulstraße" and "Kasernenstraße" have connections on both ends (public parking place), "Kasernenstraße" also continues to the "Eisenbahnstraße"

[10]
Germany Eisenbach, 88316 Isny/Allgäu; close to Kreuzthal, Buchenberg, Kempten/Allgäu <not applicable> Google Maps/Tele Atlas wrong extension for area localisation of a village name (this is a possible Easter Egg); Google: "Eisenbach (Hochschwarzwald)", correct: "Eisenbach (Allgäu)" - a difference of about 200 km air distance; correct in OSM [11]
Germany Eschborn L3005 GoYellow/Tele Atlas out-of-date street-data (about 1.5 years) with new photo (just strange, no Easter Egg), Google has the same error [12] & [13]
Germany Kleinostheim Anne-Frank-Straße Google/Teleatlas The street simply is totally wrong, see OSM-data (second link) for correct version. [14] & [15]
Germany Lindau/Bodensee Uferweg Google Maps/Tele Atlas On the western part of the island most roads are called "Uferweg" and two rectangular parking grids are shown. This is not really true since Uferweg just means footpath along the coast and the parking grid is obviousely just angled. It seems like some card designer resolved it a long time ago by simply putting some rectangles into his database instead of drawing the correct representation. [16]
Germany Mannheim Spatzenbrücke Google/Teleatlas The bridge labeled as "Spatzenbrücke" is actually the "Kurt-Schumacher-Brücke". The Spatzenbrücke is much smaller and below Kurt-Schumacher-Brücke. [17]
Germany Memmingen Schwabenstraße Google Maps/Tele Atlas There is a quite split road on the left end of Memmingen airfield that obviousely cannot be there. Either it's an errata or its an Eater Egg. OSM should do it better. [18]
Germany Gifhorn Eyßelheideweg Garmin/Mapsource The Eyßelheideweg ist falsely named Fischerweg on the Garmin Topo 1:25000 Map. Fischerweg is a Street in Gifhorn, but is more to the north. no link
Germany Karlsbad-Ittersbach Im Stöckmädle, Becker-Göring-Straße Google / Tele Atlas Tele Atlas seems to consider the southern curve of the street to be narrow or whatever. The track across the fields is what they defined to be the better street. Doh! Furthermore, they labeled part of the premises of Harman/Becker Automotive (a car radio and navigation system maker) to be Becker-Göring-Straße which was never so (a small dead end was but this was changed years ago). It's also a joke to see that Google says the images are (c) 2008 GeoContent but buildings that were built by H/B in 2002/03 and the whole street "Auf der Hub" isn't on them. [19]
Germany Düsseldorf Josef-Kardinal-Frings-Brücke Google / Tele Atlas, Mapquest/NavTeq The bridge got this official name in 2006 according to a Wikipedia article. Tele Atlas uses "Rheinbrücke Düsseldorf-Neuss" which seems to be the very old name and NavTeq uses "Willy-Brandt-Brücke" which seems to be the previous name. Do I need to mention that the fellow OSMer who mapped the bridge got it right? [20], None to Mapquest as their links are too awful.

Great Britain

Town Street Name Error Source Description Location
Bicester Gardners Ln Google/TeleAtlas Road doesn't exist. [21]
Birmingham Cardinal Close Google/TeleAtlas This road, just off Poplar Avenue, was the site of a school until 2003 but is now a fairly recent housing development. [22]
Birmingham Grantham Road Google/TeleAtlas This road was removed and the site is now part of a nearby school. [23]
Brighton Alaska St Google/TeleAtlas Alaska St. does not exist. [24]
Bristol Lye Close A-Z Road does not exist
Bristol Oxford Street/Kirby Street BS6 Google/Teleatlas In the teleatlas data, Kirby Street/Oxford street is an L junction not connected to High Kingsdown, a road which goes over houses on the ground. Multimap is more accurate [25], in that the roads all join up, but even it does not note that the only way between Oxford Street and High Kingsdown is a flight of steps. Kirby street may not actually exist; if it does it is the name of a road to some garages. The post office postcode finder does not know of it. [26]
Bristol Bridges across River Avon BS3 Google/Teleatlas One of the two bridges does not exist (the eastern one which is marked as footbridge); the one marked as street does exist, but is only a footbridge. To make up for it, they're completely missing the footbridge further east around Greenway Bush Lane) [27]
Bristol Gregory Lane BS4 Google/Teleatlas Road does not exist, or if it does it's someone's driveway. [28]
Chester a nonexistent road Google Maps The line of the canal and the railway between Vicars Cross Road and Whitchurch Road is wrong. In some scales the roads Pearl Lane and The Holkham are shown connected, but there is really a railway in a cutting between them. [29]
Cobham, Surrey Misplaced roundabout at junction of Fairmile Lane and Water Lane Google/TeleAtlas and Multimap/TeleAtlas at 1:50,000 scale Roundabout is shown at the junction of Water Lane and The Laurels but is actually at junction of Fairmile Lane and Water Lane. [30] [31]
Cobham Asford Gardens Local Live/NavTeq and Google/TeleAtlas Incorrectly named Asford Gardens. Real name is Ashford Gardens. [32] [33]

[34]

Cobham Bridge Road Local Live/NavTeq and Google/TeleAtlas Downside Road connects directly to Downside Bridge Road. No street here is called Bridge Road.

[35] [36]

[37]

[38]

Cobham Holly Hedge Road Local Live/NavTeq Incorrectly named Holly Hedge Road. Real name is Hollyhedge Road. [39] [40]
Cobham Hollyhedge Road Google/TeleAtlas This road is actually a footpath that probably used to be called Anvil Lane. The real Hollyhedge Road is clearly marked about 200m to the East. [41] [42]
Cobham Paddock Close Google/TeleAtlas Incorrectly named Paddock Close. Real name is Paddocks Close. [43] [44]
Corby railway Google The railway line which runs through central Corby is entirely missing. This line, which runs from Oakham to Kettering, has no regular passenger services, but remains a freight route, which may explain its omission (it is sometimes used for diversions). [45]
Dorking Drill Hall Road Google/TeleAtlas This road, running due north at the northern end of Vincent Lane is totally missing from Google maps. [46]
Dorking Flint Hill Close Google/TeleAtlas Flint Hill Close is not part of the A2003. [47]
Dorking High Acre Multimap and Google/TeleAtlas This road is named Highacre not High Acre. And there is no access from Highacre to Flint Hill. [48]
Dorking Pixholme Lane Google/TeleAtlas Labelled Pixholme Grove [49]
Dorking Roses Cottages Google/TeleAtlas Roses Cottages is wrong. It is actually Rose Cottages. [50]
Eltham, SE9, London Berryhill Gardens Google/TeleAtlas The through-road is called Berryhill, the cul-de-sac off it is Berryhill Gardens. [51]
Falmer, E Sussex Google/TeleAtlas Falmer is shown to the north of the A27, near the north end of Ridge Road, when it SE of the junction of the A27 and The Drove. [52]
Fernhurst, W Sussex Square Drive Google/TeleAtlas Square Drive is not to the west of the A286. It's to the east and further up (you get to the real Square Drive by scrolling north) [53]
Glasgow Bailie Drive Google/TeleAtlas Cut off, should connect to Stockiemuir Avenue. [54]
Glasgow Stewarton Road Google/TeleAtlas Misnamed as Dodside Road on map, but geocode data correct [55]
Leeds Spring Bank Crescent Google/TeleAtlas Incorrectly named Springbank Crescent. [56]
Leicester Colchester Road/Hungarton Boulevard/Hamilton Way/Thurmaston Lane/Troon Way Google This is all now part of the A563, Leicester's outer ring road: Google shows it as a white local road. Google's highlighted route, Humberstone Road up to Thurmaston Lane, no longer work as that section of Thurmaston Lane is disconnected at the top. Additionally, Abbots Road was split into two by the new road, the segments (Abbots Road North and Abbots Road South) are dead-ends and cannot be accessed from Hungarton Boulevard, but Google continues to show treat them as a through-road. [57]
Leicester Waterloo Way Google; Microsoft In the 1990s, the part of Waterloo Way south of Regent Road was renamed "Tigers Way", after nearby rugby club Leicester Tigers. Google shows the old name for the entirety of the road; Microsoft instead shows "Tigers Way" as the name of the entire stretch, up to the station. [58]
Leicester Victoria Road East Extension Google Link road between A6030 (middle ring road) and A563 (outer ring road). Opened in 2005. Missing from Google Maps. [59]
Leicester A5125 Microsoft There has been no A5125 for a number of years. This road linked Narborough Road with the Belgrave Flyover. [60]
Finchley, London N12 Linkside Navteq 2006 Road does not meet up, in reality it does, also bizarre nearby road off Walmington Fold that does not exist, except for access to an individual house's garage. [61]
Finchley, London N3 Moat Lane Google/TeleAtlas Road does not exist [62]
Finchley, London N3 The Avenue Google/TeleAtlas Road at wrong angle [63]
Seven Sisters, London N15 Edgecot Grove Google Does not join with Breamar Road, is a close [64]
London, SW1 Lugsmoor Lane Google Road actually called "Cleveland Row" [65]
London, SW1 Kennard Road Google Road actually called "Spring Gardens" [66]
London, SW1 Bennett Street Google Road actually spelled "Bennet Street" (one t)
Mill Hill, London NW7 Stanmore Street Google/TeleAtlas Road does not exist [67]
Barnet / Cockfosters, north edge of London Wagon Road / Waggon Road Multiple sources Officially not an error. The road officially subtly changes spelling half way along its length. [68]
London; Finchley, London N3 Torrington Place Google/TeleAtlas Road does not exist [69]
London Clapham Junction to Clapham Common Google/TeleAtlas A TeleAtlas Easter Egg shows a road running diagonal from the main intersection of Clapham Junction to Clapham Common, through several streets, rows of houses, and a department store.

Note: this is no longer visible in Google maps, which now shows the correct layout.

[70]
London; Mitcham, CR4 Rigdale Close Google/TeleAtlas Road named incorrectly - should be Mullards Close. Fixed after 2 years of complaints to TeleAtlas. Now fixed in Google Maps.
Longdendale Woodhead Road Google Maps Not quite sure of this one, but it seems strange that the Woodhead Road becomes "Around the Peak District" and then eventually turns back into the "Woodhead Road" once it gets near Holfirth. [71]
Loughborough Talbot Ct Google Maps Road at end of Christie Drive does not exist. [72]
Greater Manchester: Halebarns two roads Ordnance Survey Street Atlas of Cheshire "Dobb Hedge Close" incorrectly referenced as "Bobb Hedge Close". "Ridge Avenue" incorrectly referenced as "Bridge Avenue". Image:DobbHedge.jpg Image:Ridge Ave.jpg Image:Easter-egg.jpg. Probably an Easter Egg rather than mapping error as the correct names are used in the OS Street Atlas of Greater Manchester - and this extract is very close to the edge of the mapped area in the Cheshire atlas.. [73]
Manchester 23 Nethercote Avenue A-Z Joins Blackcarr Road in reality but not on A-Z maps.
Oakham Catmos Street Google/TeleAtlas and Local Live/NavTeq Oakham is in the Vale of Catmose. This should be Catmose Street. [74]
Oakham Schofield Road Google/TeleAtlas Road running due east-west does not exist. [75]
Oakham Alma Street Google/TeleAtlas This road is actually more of Mayfield. [76]
Reading Chatfield Court A-Z Incorrectly names Charfield Court. Real name is Chatfield Court.
Southampton Oakmount Avenue Google/TeleAtlas Oakmount Avenue does *NOT* lead onto The Avenue. It is blocked by a 100-ft high pile of Easter Eggs. :-) [77]
Southampton St Denys Station access Yahoo! Maps St Denys Station is accessed from Osbourne Road South and Adelaide Road via footbridges. Yahoo! puts it some distance away, on the far side of the bridge, in an industrial estate. [78]
Southampton Woodstock Drive Google/TeleAtlas The road labelled as "Woodstock Drive" is actually a gravel access road. The real Woodstock Drive is just to the south (name visible if you zoom in) [79]
Southampton Woolston area Google/TeleAtlas Most of the unnamed "roads" in the grid-iron section to the left of the area are back alleys which look rather like wide footpaths. Maybe they do have car access but this map suggests they're the equal of regular roads.... [80]
St Albans Carnegie Road Google/Route 66 (old versions at least) Incorrectly named Carnegie Drive (Now corrected on Google maps) [81]
Stoke on Trent Hanley Road Google/TeleAtlas & Multimap This road is marked as a B road. It is actually the A5272. See this photo, showing both the street name and the direction sign, indicating that the road is the A5272. Avantman42 [82] & [83]
Stoke on Trent Robert Heath Street Google/TeleAtlas, Multimap, Garmin & other GPS satellite navigation systems This street is a one-way street between Coseley Street & Chain Street (but not between Chain Street & Ford Green Road). Neither Google maps nor Multimap indicate that any part of it is one way, although they do indicate (correctly) that Chain Street is one way. My Garmin StreetPilot i3 and a friend's satellite navigation system have both directed people the wrong way down Robert Heath Street. Avantman42 [84] & [85]
Stoke on Trent Wycliffe Street Google/TeleAtlas & Multimap Both Google/TeleAtlas and Multimap have this street listed as "Wycliffe Road". The street signs show it to be Wycliffe Street. Avantman42 [86] & [87]
Sunbury Kempton Road Google/TeleAtlas This road, is now a cycle path and no longer has a name, if it was ever called Kempton Road. [88]
Swanmore Tankerton Street Google/TeleAtlas Road does not exist [89]
Swindon Tovey Road Google This road does not turn back on itself. The short part is called Tedder Close. Appears to be an Easter Egg as searching for Tedder Close brings up the correct location. [90]
Tudor Close Warwick Road Google/TeleAtlas Roads do not exist [91]
Wakefield Hatfeild Street & Back Hatfeild Street Google/TeleAtlas Incorrectly named Hatfield/Back Hatfield Street [92]
Wakefield Kyrwicks Lane Google/TeleAtlas There's no other road leading from the end of Ivy Close at all - just a footpath to the corner of Ivy Grove. [93]
Wakefield Victory Lane Google/TeleAtlas and others The only people who're gonna find a road here are archeologists - small amounts of the road surface are visible, but to find most of it will require a shovel. All that really remains is a VERY overgrown footpath. I'm not certain the sections connecting it to Balk Lane have ever existed. [94]
Waltham Forest Evelyn Road Google/TeleAtlas Incorrectly named Holly Grove. Real name is Evelyn Road. Google have corrected the error - so this this entry will soon be removed! [95]
Walton Burwood Park Road Google/TeleAtlas Road incorrectly named Burnwood Park Road [96]
Ware Walnut Tree Walk Google/TeleAtlas Road shown as a through route from Amwell Hill to Hoe Lane but, as the name suggests, much of it is only a footpath (legal status is Public Bridleway). [97]
Ware Wengeo Lane Google/TeleAtlas Road shown as a through route from Park Road to Watton Road but middle section is only a footpath. [98]
Watford The Harebreaks Google/TeleAtlas, Multimap, Streetmap Road incorrectly named The signs on the road just call this road Harebreaks except for the most Northern Point on the road. [99]
Watford Postoffice on Leavesden Road Bartholomew Postoffice in incorrect place (I think that OS maps older than a few years also have the postoffice here) [100]
Weybridge Abbotswood Drive Google/TeleAtlas and OS Get-a-map Northern spur does not exist. This could well be an OS Easter Egg, the "road" follows the boundary of a property. If the road did once exist it would have been an acute left turn on an extremely steep hill - very unlikely. In addition to my own observations, the St George's Hill Estate map confirms that this spur does not exist. [101]
Weybridge Castle Green Google/TeleAtlas There is only one Castle Green. Google thinks there are two Castle Greens. [102]
Weybridge Hungerford Square Google/TeleAtlas This place exists but is not a roadway. There is an access road from Horvath Close at 90 degrees to the road marked. Similarly the neighbouring Stafford Square roadway does not exist. [103]
Winchester Southview Road Multimap,Streetmap.co.uk The northern and eastern of three sides of a square shown as Southview Road are actually Compton Way. [104] & [105]

Other European Countries

Country Town Street Name Error Source Description Location
Belgium Heverlee Steengroevenlaan Google/TeleAtlas The one way Steengroevenlaan part from the Kapeldreef till the real Steengroevenlaan does not exist, it's a building. [106]
Belgium Antwerp/Deurne Baron Leroystraat/Alfons Schneiderlaan Google/TeleAtlas The northern road going to the Alfons Schneiderlaan is a dead-end. [107]
Belgium Lessines Rue Basse Couture Google/TeleAtlas The street DOES NOT go right through Baxter plant. [108]
Belgium Leuven Sint-Donatuspark Google/TeleAtlas Google has it as Sint-Donatiuspark. [109]
Belgium Linden/Lubbeek Slangenpad Google/TeleAtlas Slangenpad does not exist anymore. A forgotten street sign can still be found on Kortrijkstraat, but the path/track has long gone. [110]
France Grenoble various Google/Teleatlas There's so much crap there it's not even funny. The small L-shaped "Rue de Stalingrad" and the P-shaped one are the parking lot of private properties. so is the "avenue Léon Blum" south of the green marker... as for the small S-shaped "Rue des Alliés"... Also, there's no way to go from either "Rue Alphonse Daudet" and "Rue Edmond Rostand" to "Rue Jean Perrin", and no way to go from that one to "Avenue Léon Blum" [111]
Ireland Dublin Sandymount Strand Google/TeleAtlas Coastline incorrectly drawn - between Strand Road, Pigeon House Road and "South Hill", the map view shows an area of land, yet the area is clearly beach - it is possible that the low-water mark was misidentified as the high-water mark. [112]
Ireland Dublin South Hill Google/TeleAtlas Incorrectly (and illogically) named "South Hill" - the names use by locals are either "South Bull" or "South Wall". [113]
Netherlands Hoofddorp - TeleAtlas (Google, map.search.ch) Complete area of streets ("President Noord") do not exist (yet). [114]
Netherlands Bilderdam - TeleAtlas (Google, map.search.ch) Street does not cross the water (not even once) [115]
Netherlands Leimuiden - TeleAtlas (Google, map.search.ch) There is an island missing overhere [116]
Netherlands Amsterdam - TeleAtlas (Google, map.search.ch) Missing bridge [117]
Switzerland Schaffhausen Oerlifall TeleAtlas (Google, map.search.ch) Wrong road line, inexistent road and wrongly written name Örlifall instead of Oerlifall. [118]
Switzerland Schaffhausen Freistrasse Teleatlas (Google, map.search.ch) A simple straight road is painted with an arc. This can't be a simple error. [119]
Switzerland Zurich Muhlesteg TeleAtlas (Google) Footbridge called "Muhlesteg" over the Limmat river, is mapped about 50m too far North [120]
Spain Madrid Calle Castellón de la Plana TeleAtlas (Google) Street is mistagged as "Calle Castelló". The real "Calle Castelló" is one kilometer away from that position. [121]
Spain Madrid Calle de la Ribera del Sena TeleAtlas (Google) Street is mistagged as "Calle de la Ribera de la Sena". Easily overlooked but completely wrong. [122]
Spain Mallorca, Canyamel Carrer dels Coves TeleAtlas (Google) Street is interrupted by large river (not shown on Google) with only a footbridge. Motor vehicles have to go 5 miles inland to nearest bridge. [123]
Italy Milano zona viale Arbe TeleAtlas (Google) Street between viale Arbe and Piazzale Giuseppe Massari and viale Marche and via Leone Fortis: do not exists. [124]

Australia and Oceania

Australia

State Town/Suburb Street Name Error Source Description Location
Victoria Glen Waverley Chester St Google/MapData Sciences Chester St ends west of Sneddon Dr with The Glen Shopping Centre now on the site previously occupied by this street. This is very out of date. [125]
Victoria Glen Waverley Edward St Google/MapData Sciences This street hasn't existed for many years with The Glen Shopping Centre now covering this area. This is very out of date. [126]
Victoria Glen Waverley Madeline St Google/MapData Sciences There's an unnamed road that doesn't exist running off Madeline St through the middle of the oval at Glen Waverley North Reserve. [127]
Victoria Kew Chandler Hwy, Earl St, Asquith St Google/MapData Sciences The road reserve is there, but there seems to be additional roads running parallel to chandler hwy. [128]
Victoria Oakleigh Johnson St between Mora Ave and Davey Ave Google/MapData Sciences Johnson St ends at Mora Ave and doesn't continue south to Davey Ave - it is part of the Catholic Primary School now [129]
Victoria Ringwood Sherbrook Ave, Burwood Ave, Bonview Ave Google/MapData Sciences These streets do not exist. They were removed to create a freeway, the "Eastlink" which is also absent. [130]

Africa

South Africa

Town Street Name Error Source Description Location
Pretoria Neethling Street City Select v4.00 Streets South of it (Uitsig, Zonneschyn, etc) are missing [131]
Pretoria Paul Kruger City Select v4.00 Railway loop does NOT cross Paul Kruger [132]
Pretoria Lombard Street City Select v4.00 It's a cul-de-sac and Stoltz Ave does not exist [133]
Pretoria Ridgewater City Select v4.00 & Brabys It's not called "Linofield" [134]

[135]

Pretoria Vista City Select v4.00 There's no shopping center here [136]
Pretoria Ayton City Select v4.00 Ayton does not extend to Kirkness [137]

[138]

Pretoria George City Select v4.00 & Brabys It's not called George Eybers [139]

[140]

Pretoria Veglaer City Select v4.00 It's not called Veyboer [141]
Pretoria Panbult City Select v4.00 The loop gets no closer than 130 meter to the M10 [142]
Pretoria Lone Creek City Select v4.00 & Brabys It connects to Old Farm and not to Rietpan [143]

[144]

Pretoria King Willow City Select v4.00 It's not King William [145]
Pretoria Winby Place City Select v4.00 It's not Wenby [146]
Pretoria Montana Gardens (Just North of Zambezi and just East of Enkeldoorn) City Select v4.00 All the streets appear 40m further South than they really are. Enkeldoorn also extend all the way through to Amandeldoorn and there are numerous roads to the left and right of it. [147]
Johannesburg Loerie Road (BOTH occurrences) City Select v4.00 It's not Karibbiese Avenue [148]
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