A few years ago, I noticed a street with no name in Google Maps. So I submitted the information that it was Gallows Court in the Australian ski town of Hotham Heights. Unlike other times I've done this, nothing happened. It appears that Google thought that Gallows Court was such a macabre and unlikely name for a street that it was more likely to be a false name submitted by several people as a joke. So I followed up with a new submission that included a photo of a street sign and links to government sources naming the street and eventually, Gallows Court at Hotham Heights appeared on Google Maps.

@mikatu

5 жыл бұрын

you are my hero!

@aaditbhatia6551

5 жыл бұрын

Next to my town in google maps, even inside it, there’s a place called Unionville. Union villa doesn’t exist. I would have driven through there before, because it’s, like, where the town center is, but...

@difluzi2950

5 жыл бұрын

There appears to be multiple unnamed roads in that area, but i found Gallows court ;)

@Dave_Sisson

5 жыл бұрын

Difluzi, a lot of those roads are just access tracks to things like ski lifts and the sewage works, so it's not surprising they are unnamed. But Gallows Court has houses and ski lodges on it, making it a proper street. BTW, Hotham also has a well known, but very steep ski run called Hangmans Drop which is marked on trail maps... so there is a rather strange theme there.

@seraphina985

5 жыл бұрын

Hmm if anything a name like Gallows Court would to me just make me think that there is probably some historical connection I would probably have just assumed that at one point there were literal gallows in that area somewhere. Lots of place names are historical references to something that was once important nearby whether it be a physical thing or simply an event of significance that happened there the latter would include things like Battlefield, Shrewsbury so named due to it's proximity to the location of the 1403 Battle of Shrewsbury. But yeah a lot of history is pretty macabe so really such names are hardly surprising.

The ad transition was more confusing than quantum mechanics.

@forgottenfamily

5 жыл бұрын

Something more confusing than quantum mechanics? Inconceivable

@davidrallison7038

5 жыл бұрын

When he starts to talk bullshit, that's the cue for you to click away. The video is over.

@rodigoduterte9192

5 жыл бұрын

superj1e2z6 perhaps even studying an arithmetic for a kindergarten looks easier than understanding it

@DaveSohan

5 жыл бұрын

Hate how HAI transitions to ads like it's something relevant to the video

@wizardkoer782

5 жыл бұрын

Clearly you don't know what quantum mechanics is then lol. That was the smoothest nerdy transition to an ad I've ever seen.

I deliver pizza in a small rural town and on one of my runs I was delivering on a small stretch of road that was supposed to be part of a numbered street, but Google maps has it labeled as "Chanterelle lane" (chanterelle being a type of mushroom.) I asked the older couple that I was delivering to if they knew anything about it, and they said "oh, our son works for Google and when he came to visit he was so impressed by how many chanterelles grew here that he decided to change the name of the street for our block." So much for accuracy and authoritative sourcing of street names.

@thorkappabrosilon

3 жыл бұрын

@Hunter Vogel Many would disagree. Numbered streets make for easier navigation.

@one_smol_duck

3 жыл бұрын

@Hunter Vogel if the street signs and addresses are changed to reflect it then sure. But the purpose of a map is to help you navigate. If you set the street name to something unofficial, that's defeating the purpose of a map.

@livewellwitheds6885

2 жыл бұрын

@@one_smol_duck absolutely

"some say New Zealand" others say "where" LMAO XD

@liamstuffdoer

4 жыл бұрын

That’s offensive to over 5 million people.

@liamjones5616

4 жыл бұрын

@@liamstuffdoer being from NZ i can assure you none of us give a flying fuck if people know we exist. we get to live on a tropical island while these nerds freeze over winter

@tylerwichman

4 жыл бұрын

@@liamstuffdoer chill dude im a kiwi hes just joking

@-rheto-7837

4 жыл бұрын

Blokkyy u shouldnt be offended if ur not a kiwi ngl.

@Matio25091

4 жыл бұрын

r/mapswithoutnz

“Any other disputed area” *shows picture of Quebec*

@KnuxMaster368

5 жыл бұрын

Team ION Quebec Parliament: *French* "Denounce this HAI dude, he called us a disputed territory"

@David_Larkin

5 жыл бұрын

@@KnuxMaster368 i could be a douche and say that it's not really called the parliement (which is in Ottawa and is for the federal government) and it's called: L'Assemblée Nationale (national assembly if you don't speak french and government name in Québec cannot be translated)

@jmcbresilfr

5 жыл бұрын

First thing I thought was the border between Québec and Labrador. I am a big Québec nationalist but I don't really see how the province is a disputed territory right now.

@ReaperUnreal

5 жыл бұрын

As a Franco-Ontarian with a staunch separatist family, I thought it was hilarious.

@leohabs0774

5 жыл бұрын

you see, there is a political party in Quebec called "Le Parti Québecois", Originally founded by René Lévesque. One of Lévesque's promises was to separate the province of Quebec from Canada, making Quebec an independent country. There was then a vote in Quebec between the Liberals (P-E Trudeau) and the Parti Québecois (Lévesque). The Liberals won 60% to 40%, so there was no separation. That being said, the Parti Québécois still exists today and, while I am not sure that their leader (Jean-François Lisée) wants to separate like Lévesque did, they could still win an election, and there may be a slight chance that Quebec separates from Canada. (By the way, even if i live in Quebec, i do not support the Parti Quebecois, and hope that the province stays in Canada forever),

"Google, if you're reading this, please don't ban this channel, I kinda need this job." - The Animator 😂😂

@klassicneo

5 жыл бұрын

I had to pause to read that lol

@abhiinair

5 жыл бұрын

@@klassicneo You could always slow it down to 0.5x

@abhiinair

5 жыл бұрын

Or if that's too much then 0.25x

@saral9817

5 жыл бұрын

@@abhiinair I slowed it down to 0.25 I still thought it said -the administrator until I read this comment:p

@abhiinair

5 жыл бұрын

@@saral9817 lol. 😂

"If you're from San Francisco, there are probably a few things you've never heard of -- toast without avocados, three-figure rent, Republicans and the East Cut neighborhood" I died laughing at "three-figure rent"

@alwong604

3 жыл бұрын

The only way rent is three figures is if it's weekly

@thegunnitgamer5716

3 жыл бұрын

@@alwong604 Pfft more like daily

@SunnyandBunny

3 жыл бұрын

but my rent is 3 figure yearly lol

@maddykrantz

3 жыл бұрын

I have a republican neighbor and we are good friends with them. Whenever we go on trips (Before COVID) they would always offer to take care of our dog for free and before covid, they would walk her in the middle of the day without asking us to pay them just because they really like our dog. Also, they are catholic and we are Jewish. They also like to make our food and they love having us over for snacks/dinner. They are also pretty well off and they LOVE inviting my mom and dad over to try fancy and expensive wines, and they travel to Oregon a lot for wine tasting. (P.S, they went to Oregon 2 times in 2020 following all of the COVID guidelines. They went there to pick up some wine and go to a winery they like up there, and they quarantined for 2 weeks after both trips.) It's just annoying when they try to bring up politics. Luckily they aren't homophobic. Also, they aren't super extreme republican and they don't openly talk about it either. You'd only know their political views if you tried to talk about politics with them. Also, they voted for trump but they luckily understood by mid-November that there was no election fraud. They claim to be "independent" but we just think that they are just saying that because of the VERY BLUE and anti-red culture in SF. SF is about 90% democrat and 10% republican.

@thefriedchickenbucket

2 жыл бұрын

I am from SF and I lean Republican.

Honestly, the East cut sounds like some $8.50 sandwich that is sold at your local sandwich shop down the street instead of a Neighborhood

@groofromtheup5719

2 жыл бұрын

not in San Francisco, It would be more than that.

"Where do you live?" "I LIVE IN THE EYE!"

@MastaSmack

5 жыл бұрын

Are you my hook worm?

@niriro5741

4 жыл бұрын

I actually did live in the eye. For a month, was in between places with this virus so I got an air bnb there in the meantime. And yes, it's as shitty as you'd expect

@ashleyshim2078

4 жыл бұрын

@@niriro5741 😂😂

@lydiamorgan9180

4 жыл бұрын

I used to have a job driving around the Detroit area picking up dog poop, and I remember a neighborhood called the eye, and I was wondering why such an ominous name for such a plain neighborhood.

@dariustiapula

3 жыл бұрын

Of terror?.

*When a mobile app almost started a war between two countries*

@firewolf950tfwgaming7

5 жыл бұрын

Google: pushes Mexico boarded up by 100 feet Mexico: has people go to said area U.S.:declares war

@luvhoes8834

4 жыл бұрын

Ceiling btw im from Costa Rica lmao

@limbonlegs1662

4 жыл бұрын

Just wait for RaId shAd0w ledGendS to start ww3

@aspenpawarts9333

4 жыл бұрын

Liam Cook RIAOLS- (the caps letters- is its a letter) R. aid I. s A. O. bjectivly L. ousy S. hart (gotta keep it PG lol)

@generpicado7838

3 жыл бұрын

Luv Hoes same

I remember years ago hearing the possibly true urban legend that some mapmakers will add in a fake town here or there in order to catch plagiarists. If another map company simply copies the first company's maps including the fake town, it's easy for them to prove copyright violation. I don't know if that's what's going on here or not.

@WildBluntHickok

2 жыл бұрын

Fun fact: that once resulted in a fake town becoming real. Someone set up a highway cafe on the spot marked as the center of the imaginary town and gave that town as their address. Now it's considered a real town (with a single digit population).

@mathiew_

2 жыл бұрын

My favourite example of this was when two clearly Michigan College Football enthusiasts added the copyright traps of "Beatosu" and "Goblu" to nearby Ohio.

@jonjohnson3027

Жыл бұрын

It happens. There was a local mapmaker near where I live, who made detailed road maps for the county and towns in the area (I have some of his maps). He openly admitted to a few "fake" streets on his maps. Until his death, the maps were considered to be the best, most authoritative maps of the area (in spite of the fake streets that didn't exist). Interesting thing is, every map was hand drawn and hand lettered. He never used a computer; he passed away at the age of 96 in 2012 (and was publishing updated maps until his death). He is memorialized by a street in Vancouver, Washington: Phil Arnold Way.

"Google if you're reading this please don't ban this channel I kinda need this job -the animator" - 0:38

@SangitaKumarii

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for telling.

Google used to allow anyone to edit their map with a tool called Map Maker. Chances are, a lot of those strange neighborhood names were added (against the ToS, I might add) by well-meaning contributors copying dubious sources. Now that the editing tool is gone, there's no easy way to interact with those "neighborhood" elements on the map. The only way to fix them now is to submit a problem report in Maps and hope someone at Google reads it before the neighborhood gets bulldozed to make way for the next mega mall.

@gfjfjufidi2880

4 жыл бұрын

Nathan Williams people still go to malls.

@thomasritzgerald4997

4 жыл бұрын

@Gfjfj Ufidi ????????????

@ryanroberts1104

3 жыл бұрын

@@gfjfjufidi2880 They still have malls? I haven't seen one in years...

@wasd____

3 жыл бұрын

@@gfjfjufidi2880 Malls are still a thing? Where do you live, and how can I find this time warp back to the 1990s?

@epiccollision

3 жыл бұрын

Might be why map maker is invite only now, and hidden

Wow, you went from maps to quantum mechanics to sponsor. Bravo.

@meevil24

5 жыл бұрын

Going from Maps to Quantum Mechanics is the most random subject jump ever

@keremtopalismailoglu933

5 жыл бұрын

Uploud more!!!

@MIXMAXENTERTAINMENT

5 жыл бұрын

Stop Getting 2 top comments now

@EditEraseRewrite

5 жыл бұрын

He's getting sloppy; I saw that segue coming from a -mile- few kilometers away. C'mon, Wendy.

@tuatarian6591

5 жыл бұрын

I see you everywhere (I will say this everytime I see you in comments)

"Some say New Zealand, others say where?" As a Kiwi I laughed xD

@haydencassidy9536

4 жыл бұрын

same lol !

@eatingcereal5646

3 жыл бұрын

I want to go to Where?

@anybudz

3 жыл бұрын

@@eatingcereal5646 idk, where do you want to go?

@Soredli

3 жыл бұрын

@Julian WilliamsMarmus its those 2 idiots

In Chicago, GM has a neighborhood called the “Lower West Side” . That’s not even a thing. The neighborhood is called Pilsen.

@llabavi367

2 жыл бұрын

You have a neighborhood called like a beer?

@MyOzempicJourney

2 жыл бұрын

@@llabavi367 it’s named for the same town in the Czech Republic.

Here in Pittsburgh, Google is basically creating a new neighborhood called "Bakery Square," which is a relatively small new, hip urban development (read "gentrified space") which is cut out of what used to be a heavily black neighborhood (though it now takes a small chunk of a fairly upper scale white neighborhood). You can see it on the map now, in the same font as Pittsburgh's actual neighborhoods. It also just so happens to be where Google's Pittsburgh office is located.

@bcubed72

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the old Nabisco plant. I still remember what it smelled like when they were baking butter cookies!😊

@germyw

5 жыл бұрын

That is what's happening with google maps. These are gentrified areas. Ytpipo 😡

@TrashDeviant

4 жыл бұрын

So... You're pro segregation? Charming.

@Pomagranite167

4 жыл бұрын

Gentrificatiom doesnt help the issues of segragationst all, dummy. Just moves redlines to other spaces.

@JD-ex7gp

3 жыл бұрын

Next you'll want White Only and Colored Only water fountains again in the name of wokeness. Typical Democrat.

Paper Towns: Google Maps Edition

@Aedar

5 жыл бұрын

Well, not exactly... Paper towns are fake town created for the purpose of stopping other people from copying your map, this is more a lazy/crappy research on google's part :)

@FutureNow

5 жыл бұрын

No yeah I know, totally different concept indeed.

@jimday666

5 жыл бұрын

Google maps still copied that map with typos on it.

@askhowiknow5527

5 жыл бұрын

FutureNow Digital towns

@user-sy2ou8gn4f

5 жыл бұрын

Recommend an Apple software, "Appeven" can download Apple games for free, invite friends to send points to exchange shopping cards.

Google maps labeled the neighborhood I grew up in as "Velox". In my ~13 years there, I had never ever heard of that term for the neighborhood. We just referred to the area essentially by the name of the high school.

@larkchase4920

3 жыл бұрын

they named mine "La Villa"...I've never heard anyone call it that in my life

Through out my entire life I have lived in rural areas. Because of this, I have NEVER heard of neighborhood names. Just goes to show that you can always learn something new.

A nightmare for people playing geoguessr

@dillonwilsonscott6681

5 жыл бұрын

Haha, love geogeussr

@janegeland7596

5 жыл бұрын

straight up what i was thinking

@arslayah3169

5 жыл бұрын

i love geoguessr too

@bgezal

5 жыл бұрын

Germany is a geoguessr nightmare.

@senecanero3874

5 жыл бұрын

@@bgezal why?

I've always found it absurd that Google Maps changes by country, so that many people don't even realise the world doesn't recognise some of their country. Let's hope the Costa Rica situation doesn't have a repeat with China haha

@xyZarik

5 жыл бұрын

Hey I’m subscribed to your channel!! Nice to see you here

@Hoehlenmaensch

5 жыл бұрын

WHAT? youtubers watch other KZreadrs. Weird stuff. Kappa

@CountlessPWNZ

5 жыл бұрын

it happens all the time, thats why it is disputed.

@josgeerink9434

5 жыл бұрын

IBX!!!

@FlameRat_YehLon

5 жыл бұрын

I've heard that the Chinese version of Google Maps uses the border line published by Chinese government. For the rest of the world though, it might or might not be true. But speaking of country recognition, to be honest I am kinda curious how Google Maps looks in Taiwan, as "it being a country" is not recognized by most of the world, even including the USA, as least on the surface I think. However Google mostly got no business in China so things might get weird (or it's not true, as they seems to start having something going on in China again, not sure what though).

My neighborhood 'Aïre' in Switzerland is called 'Aire-la-Ville' (a town 10km away) by Google maps, this mistake finds gets then repeated by every online shopping site and people using maps for direction are often misdirected

I really thought "The eye" was going to be a transliteration that occurred when someone asked where do you live in Detroit? "The I"

@redwingjv

3 жыл бұрын

As someone from Detroit I’ve never heard of the eye in my life lmao

@Knightmessenger

2 жыл бұрын

I assumed the name was based on the shape of the neighborhood or something in the area.

Half as Wendover Production

@devianDog

5 жыл бұрын

Second half as Wendover lore

@horntx

5 жыл бұрын

Half assed wendover production lol, JK love this channel

@mentalillness1574

5 жыл бұрын

Better Than Wendover Productions

@MajorOutage

5 жыл бұрын

Ut-oh. Someone doesn't know.

@ZNotFound

5 жыл бұрын

The people who make this also makes Wendover. Read the descriptions.

In true Detroit fashion; there's probably heroin stashed in those houses

@somemanwhoateapuertoricanl7859

5 жыл бұрын

Maxvannoorloos there's scarier and shadier shit in these homes, especially if you go to the East Side

@floydlooney6837

5 жыл бұрын

but that would increase the property value...

@somemanwhoateapuertoricanl7859

5 жыл бұрын

Floyd Looney why would you be asking that??? Crime rate also plays a major role into dropping property values

@-Faris-

5 жыл бұрын

And probably a few deviant androids somewhere in the city

@TriegaDN

5 жыл бұрын

It's sad, there is a difference based on zip code. I lived in Redford township, and things are a little ghetto but pretty normal there, but when you go down six mile into Detroit, things start to look more ghetto instantly. There are even neighborhoods inside the city of Detroit that are in some cases wealthy, but right outside their block of streets, it's ghetto af. Look at Indian Village in Detroit for example.

"The East Cut sounds like a 17 dollar sandwich" LMAAAAOOOO

@jeremyashford2145

3 жыл бұрын

Pudding Bowl haircut.

Around my home town a few make sense, but randomly a few years ago the entirety of French Valley got renamed Dutch Village. There was a "Dutch Village Giftshop" there when I was a kid, but it hasn't existed since the 90s, and no housing tracks are named after it. Since then random nonsense names have popped up everywhere, and it's confusing at best.

"Any other disputed territory" *Shows Quebec*

@KnuxMaster368

5 жыл бұрын

Zachary Filion Quebec denounces HAI for implying this

Just around where my family lives, Google maps has the area labeled "Hickson". I've looked around for while to find what it is about but I haven't even found a historical name or town here in California ever being called "Hickson". Not near here or even anywhere in California. So I seriously don't know why it's being labeled that. Whats even more strange is that this neighborhood they've created is smacked in the middle of the intersection Sepulveda Boulevard and Devonshire Street, however, West of Sepulveda - just crossing the 405 freeway - is the real neighborhood of Granada Hills, while East of Sepulveda is the real neighborhood and, once, proper town of Mission Hills - where the Mission San Fernando is located. They each have their own zip code and all. Hickson, does not exist and shouldn't exist as it's cleaved by the widest portion of Sepulveda Blvd. Moreover, there's an area near there they've labeled "North North Hills". The town has always been called "North Hills" but somehow they've carved out a new neighborhood to its north and just tacked another "north" to it.... That's just kinda cheap.

@soouG.

3 жыл бұрын

"North North Hills" sounds like a crappy idea for a Super Mario 64 level.

Yeah my old house was in the inexplicably named "Calevillo Land". And yes the only references on Google are realty and hotel search sites

I would love if you did a follow up about the fuzzy differentiation between neighborhoods and subdivision names on Google Maps, especially in newer sunbelt cities where neighborhoods are less established and more of these types of subdivisions exist

Same with my girlfriend's house. The name that Google gives the area refers to the farm the neighbourhood was built on. But it hasn't been a farm in nearly 80 years.

Super unnatural sponsorship transition.

Some years ago, people noticed Google Maps used to put more emphasis on the favelas (slums) of Rio de Janeiro than on official neighborhoods (which are, in fact, legally defined by a decree that gets constantly updated as the city grows). Of course Google was using other sources than this decree (in which maybe one or two favelas actually got upgraded to being official neighborhoods). And the mayor was even more upset because some favelas got more attention as you zoomed out than the official neighborhoods. Even favelas no one had ever heard of were listed on Google Maps, despite being just a small group of less than 10 houses. Google being Google quickly changed their view (at least for people in Brazil), so the city authorities called down. I wonder if they checked now years later using a VPN.

My parents house is very close to the boundary between 2 counties in new jersey, and Google maps used to think it's in the wrong county. Thankfully, that has been changed now.

“Or any other disputed territory” *shows Quebec* I’M DYING 😂😂

Yep, Wendover productions definitely lives in San Fransisco

@vinesauceobscurities

5 жыл бұрын

"Wendover Heights" in the thumbnail. I see what they did there.

@GrijzePilion

5 жыл бұрын

I've heard he currently lives in (or near) Amsterdam.

@0cujo0

5 жыл бұрын

Isn’t Wendover Heights a San Franciscan Neighborhood? :-D

@mjmkevin

5 жыл бұрын

At 4:15 I see a house icon in The Hague

@ilonnolan9259

5 жыл бұрын

mjmkevin looks more like a shopping mall symbol to me

I knew I wasn't crazy. Where I live Google Maps has labeled neighborhoods like "Stewart Town" and "Anscroft" that I've never heard anybody refer to ever, but misses the more prominently recognized "Hadley Farms" "Lakeforest" and "Asbury"

Google Maps has randomly decided that my city of 40,000 has another neighborhood inside of it, and has started labeling addresses with that new neighborhood, but completely left out the real one thats actually kinda well know.

That transition to talking to quantum mechanics was just as confusing as quantum mechanics itself.

I guess at 3:54 you thought "Eh, if Google can use weird sources then so can I!"

@saral9817

5 жыл бұрын

No......I didn't :p

@Komradvsky

5 жыл бұрын

@@saral9817 he meant the guy who made the video.

I lived a few blocks down from The Eye, I lived in Redford at the time, the Eye is basically on the edge of the city of Detroit, bordering Redford twp. That always confused me too, why that place is called the eye on google maps and I looked into it, it's interesting. I was actually hoping to see Detroit mentioned, and I've been pleasantly surprised.

Back when people used paper maps, the makers would put in imaginary towns so they could see if other companies were ripping off their maps.

Hope there’s planes in this one

@meevil24

5 жыл бұрын

Sadly, there weren't any planes

@HNT63

5 жыл бұрын

I guess there's nothing to see here then🙁🙁

@grangermontag1824

5 жыл бұрын

Not even a Toyota Corolla

@gary4130

5 жыл бұрын

Without the Toyota Corollas, we cannot thrive as a species

New Zealand once again forgotten from the world

@somemanwhoateapuertoricanl7859

5 жыл бұрын

Magnificent Birb you mean a giant underwater volcano????

@MarloSoBalJr

5 жыл бұрын

Oh, you mean that massive rock blocking the tsunamis from reaching the Australian coast

@Friendship1nmillion

5 жыл бұрын

*AND* Australia.

@richardemms3050

5 жыл бұрын

All good, the fewer people that know about it the fewer that will visit. It can be a secret that a few know about.

When I was 12 we had a house fire, and the fire department came down the wrong street (Ardmore). My street is divided by two other intersecting main roads, into 3 different sections. The one I'm on is farthest north. After the fire, within a year they changed the divided street names to "W. Ardmore", "E. Ardmore" and just regular "Ardmore" in the middle. This is only noticeable on google maps or on official government documentation. None of the physical street signs changed, nor do most the residents even know about it. Unrelated, yes, but this video reminded me of that story.

Fascinating. I thought this was going to be like the way old paper map publishers would place phantom towns on their maps, so if someone else's published map had them that would be proof of illegal copying.

That segue to Brilliant was strained af...

Wow, I guess I'm gonna be a little more skeptical of information from Google Maps in the future. In Germany, neighborhoods are indeed officially named and defined areas. But considering Google took over 5 years to fix an obvious bug in their public transport layer in the center of Berlin, Germany, I wouldn't be so sure about Google's attention to detail

even worse, in my area (I'm from Austria) there are several neighbourhood names that actually exist, but they are in the wrong place. It's really common here for two villages to slowly grow together over time, but Google gets them completely messed up sometimes

Happened to my city too. Google invented neighborhood names that we in town never used, and now we get lectured by yuppies from Toronto who move here about what our neighborhoods are called. They never admit "I think this name exists only because I see it on Google Maps", and when we tell them they're full of it they call us Nazi white supremacist local yokels.

@goodvibes4351

10 ай бұрын

Well that escalated quickly!

Some random person somehow made it so that it said on google maps that right on top of my house theres a _McDonlads_ , idk how it happened, it came complete with fake pictures too, luckily no one came expecting a Burger

That transition to the brilliant sponsor though, brilliant

@buddyclem7328

5 жыл бұрын

I thought it was Half As Interesting.

The “cut” is a reference to the digging up of a street on Rincon Hill so horse and carriages could make it.

Thanks for clearing that up about the Eye, I drove through the area to pick up a friend a so was very confused. I've been wondering if it was just made up by Google ever since.

Or any other disputed territory. **Shows Quebec** lol

I think you should credit the blogger who did the research in the description. That's just common courtesy.

In the past years, users could log in to Google Map Maker and add neighborhood names and road names, some of these names have been added by users who have high powers and do not need approval, so do not be surprised when you see strange names when you use Google Maps in some countries.

Our city has a neighborhood literally named "Nombre del Barrio" (Name of the Neighborhood) according to Google. They still haven't fixed it yet.

There are two main rivers near me, the Biloxi River and the Tchouttacabouffa River. Google Maps believes they're both called the Biloxi River

okay look. I know it's an advert and all, but Schrodinger's cat is an example devised specifically with the purpose of demonstrating why a particular interpretation (the Copenhagen interpretation) of quantum mechanics is incorrect. It is *not* an example meant to show how quantum mechanics works - it's exactly the opposite.

Google used these names for neighborhood signups of Google Fiber in 2011. If your Fiberhood didn't meet or certain percentage of pre-signups, they wouldn't bring Google Fiber to you. If they did, you'd have free internet access for 7 years as long as you paid installation (no install fee for apartment renters). At one point I lived next to a park called Gum Springs, so Google named the area surrounding, Gum Springs, and it was my Fiberhood. Now that neighborhood is called Pinegate West on the map, the name of the largest apartment complex in the neighborhood (where I actually lived at the time). A nearby neighborhood is called Deerwalk Condo, named after Deerwalk Condominiums, which takes up about a quarter of the neighborhood.

There are some bits on Google Maps around where I live where they've mislabelled places as a neighbourhood when they are in fact just streets that no longer exist...

more like twice as interesting

@anon4336

5 жыл бұрын

*Wendover Productions is typing*

@buddyclem7328

5 жыл бұрын

Behold!

@andymadden8183

5 жыл бұрын

And twice as funny!

_That_ was my favorite ad transition

I actually have a case of this in my hometown of Rowland Heights, California. In my hometown there is supposed to be a small neighbourhood named Otterbein, named after Otterbein Avenue, but nobody has ever heard of calling that area Otterbein. The so-called neighbourhood is quite small too, only covering about three blocks off the intersection of Colima and Otterbein.

In Pinellas County, FL (where I live) there seems to be two strange neighborhoods. Wyatt Street, which is a street but Google Maps has it listed as an entire neighborhood, and Walsingham, which is also not a neighborhood name or a census designated place. There is a park in that area called Walsingham Park and a road nearby named after it called Walsingham Rd… but no one calls that general area Walsingham.

How the hell do you find all these Weird obscure topics?

@damirock98

5 жыл бұрын

Deep web of course

@sharnistevens1428

5 жыл бұрын

Naimad The wikipedia list! TWL :)

@MalcadorTheSigilite

5 жыл бұрын

@@sharnistevens1428 Oh right Forgot about it haha Thanks

@hkr667

5 жыл бұрын

Not sure but a big news paper in my random West European country released the same story 2 days ago. It had the exact same example (the east cut) as well. Maybe there are some 'weird stories most media channels won't cover' mailing lists out there.

The Schrödinger’s cat made me remember bunny girl senpai

@Rosie-fx1rp

3 жыл бұрын

@Gigi Khumalo you're on the internet, just google it

@TheNicestPig

3 жыл бұрын

Ahhh, good show that was...

I live in a neighborhood that's known as a lane, yet google calls it a drive. This has caused some packages meant for me to disappear

4:17 I'm from Vancouver and I've only heard of North-Lower Lonsdale, Park Royal, British Properties, and Capilano Highlands(which is now Edgemont now apparently)

If Apple made a map application it should be called Mapple without a doubt.

That message to google at 0:38 is hilarious!!!!

Yo, you are the god at sponsor transitions I've been watching a bunch of your videos and you just slide right into the sponsor what a god.

I wondered why there were weird neighborhood names in my city that I’ve never heard anyone use! Some are also kind of off from where most people would think they are.

HAI: starts talking about quantum mechanics Me: I thought this video was about neighborhoods HAI: And brilliant is really good at- Me: oh that’s why

@christelheadington1136

3 жыл бұрын

He was and he wasn't.

As someone who was born in San Francisco I have no clue what a republican is. Is that like a type of avocado?

As an uber driver in the Detroit area, I've tried to learn the name of every neighborhood I visit. I've noticed The Eye on Google Maps before but had no idea of the origin. It's right next to the much better known name Five Points neighborhood which I believe is the furthest you can be from the center of Detroit while still being in Detroit.

there's a section of woods nearby to where I live that is simply called 'town' on google maps. There's no trails, it is very small, and no one has ever called it town.

lol the puns! "The benevolent dictator" 😂

The Cañas-Jerez Treaty was signed between the Plenipotentiary Minister Máximo Jerez Tellería (from Nicaragua) and the General José María Cañas Escamilla (from Costa Rica) in 1858. What the Nicaraguan government did back in 2010 was pure negligence and an ill intended violation of Costa Rican sovereignty. It also provoked environmental damage to an ecological protected area.

@legguchan

5 жыл бұрын

It was Ortega's fault And I'm Costa Rican Ortega actually forgot about the Cañas-Jerez Treaty and he said that was actual Nicaraguan territory while it isn't

Friend of mine lived in Tavistock Road (built up area in London). Streetview insisted on showing a country area around Tavistock in the West Country. Took months to get it changed

What you mentioned about the Nicaraguan Costa Rican border, that created a stink for two US states about twelve years ago when Google Maps showed the Georgia border one mile north of where it actually was and the governor of Georgia was determined to take back the land, which would give him access to The Tennessee River (since at that time Atlanta was in a crippling drought) and a good slice of Chattanooga, the 4th most populated city in the state. People in Tennessee border towns from New Hope to Copperhill were all upset about that and The Tennessee Governor threatened to send the Tennessee National Guard to East Ridge.

to try and read that super fast thing about google not banning the channel, you take the speed down to 0.25 and sam just sounds constipated.

You’re pronouncing Machias incorrectly. It’s pronounced “ma-chy-is”

@NYpaddler

3 жыл бұрын

Google would offer the correct pronunciation very easily. Kind of ironic, isn't it?

I live in a small town in Surrey, England and there is a neighbourhood called the Old Dean. Yet Google Maps continues to show it as part of the main town when it is almost completely separate. We also don't call another neighbourhood the St Michael's area, we refer to it as Yorktown.

Wow smooth ad slip at the end I’m so stoned I didn’t even realise you changed from the vid to the sub drop

the point of the cat is that you don't know if its dead or alive, so you assume its both until you measure it. its the Copenhagen interpretation of Werner Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. there were many interpretations of that principle, including the many worlds theory, which is pretty cool.

The aforementioned island is pronounced “ma-CHAI-as” like the nearby Maine town.

Okay but like this guy is seriously good at those smooth transitions into sponsors Like Danggg

I noticed that a few years ago. It's kind of weird since they are not official, but it's cool because you can visualize what people talks about.

"Some say New Zealand, others say 'where?'" DAMN. You really had to do us like that? 😂

4:24 lmao that is so right

I was baffled when you showed my home town at 2:44 :D

When I first saw the title of this video, I thought the explanation would be about traps for copyright violators. Most map publishers [used to] include misspellings and non-existent map features to catch copyright violations by other publishers.

"Google is amazing and lovely" I'm sorry, but I thought this channel wasn't supposed to lie.

@jeffbenton6183

3 жыл бұрын

It's not lying if it's sarcasm

That’s Brilliant! See what I did there?

@lilmak5806

5 жыл бұрын

I see what you did

@neria1372

5 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately that joke isn't as brilliant as you think it is. But nice try.

True, in Google maps there are places named in ways they havent been called for like 50 years. Bing maps is worse, my neighbourhood is named as the farm that used to be here over 80 years ago.

I was so confused when he started talking about quantum superposition like we were just supposed to know how that was related