Google Maps ‘Loses’ Major Florida City
- Posted on September 23, 2010 at 10:47am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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Sunrise, Florida is the opposite of Tisch Mills, Wisconsin. That is to say, the city of 90,000 is hard to miss. Unless Google Maps is trying to find it.
As CNN reports, for at least a month this summer, Google’s computers “lost” Sunrise:
People who searched Google Maps for the city were directed instead to Sarasota, Florida — a place that, while an alphabetical cousin of Sunrise, is actually 200 miles away. No Sunrise business or addresses or phone numbers showed up. Even city hall and other public entities were strangely absent, according to reports on news sites, blogs and Google help forums.
According to Sunrise Mayor Mike Ryan, this is the third time his city has fallen off the face of the earth: “I don’t have any problem with the idea that mistakes happen,” he said. “The algorithms they have to apply to understand what my search is are undoubtedly complicated. What disturbed us is that this wasn’t the first time it happened.”
Ryan was proactive about taking up his city’s cause: he sent a map of Sunrise to Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Google has since fixed the error.
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kyle33541
Posted on September 24, 2010 at 2:16pmlol wow that stinks. I have used google.maps to advertise and find my way around
Report Post »no1cane
Posted on September 24, 2010 at 12:44amEasy there SERGE, there are Conservatives here too!
Report Post »34yearmilvet
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 9:40pmAl Gore is on the Google board maybe he told them Sunrise is now under the ocean.
Report Post »Serge
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 4:32pmWe Floridians have been trying to “loose” Sunrise for decades. Nothing there but a few former NY City retirees and an outlet mall
Report Post »cheezwizshabaz
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 4:07pmSound like Sunrise has a reason to have a sovereign state day like Winneconne WI does.
Report Post »ajredies77
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 3:48pmSorry not MIKE777 I ment the post below yours.
Report Post »Skwerl E. Muckenfutch
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 1:18pmMaybe Sunrise FL doesn’t want to be found. Maybe it wants to be the new Galt’s Gulch.
Report Post »HuskerVet
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 12:08pmGoogle may as well be their own “sovereign nation”. They make boatloads of money, know everyone’s business, and are as corrupt as this administration and congress. They definitely lean Left, and make occasional “mistakes” that are anti-God and anti-Conservative.
Report Post »andrews042
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 11:41amThat sounds like what happened to Springfiled in the Simpson’s Movie. I wonder if the EPA has anything to do with this….
Report Post »carrera
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 11:34amSunrise Florida has one of the largest Islamic Complexes, we certainly can’t have google spying on them now can we? It had been reported that in Staten Island New York the google maps renamed streets in Arabic, and who can forget the google search engine “glitch” when searching the word Islam.
Report Post »tr68gt
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 11:21amI wouldn’t mind if they lost my city. I’m not that comfortable with someone being able to look that closely at my home on the internet (Google streetview)
Report Post »Mike777
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 11:12amI don’t trust Google something not right with them. I can’t tell you what but its just a feeling. I don’t use them or bing. I‘m using Ixquick they don’t record the IP. And I did a search and God showed up.
Report Post »ajredies77
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 3:47pmMIKE777
Do you really worry about that? 99.99999 percent of the people in this world have no idea who you or me are. Google is bad but if this is what bothers people then we have more to worry about then a random pic of your house on the internet. Should spend more time worrying about the fact that they have recorded every single word you have typed in to there search bar in the last 15 years!!
Report Post »jerry1945
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 11:02amThe Bermuda Triangle at it again.
Report Post »broker0101
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 11:01amNote to Sunrise:
Report Post »My home town of Winneconne, WI was omitted from the official WI highway map in 1967. Winneconne responded by staging a “succession” from the state and declared itself “sovereign state”. It became a local annual celebration called “Sovereign State Days”, which is celebrated with great fanfare and revelry each July to this day.
MJ1025
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 10:59amGoogle is in bed with the government now. It is showing.
Report Post »GENZERO
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 10:57amSounds like Google has been working too closely with the U.S. Government, and have lost their way.
Report Post »TxGunGuy
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 10:54amI wonder if we can get them to lose Washington D.C. ?
Report Post »SueC
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 11:02amOh what a lovely Dream! If only.
Report Post »JackBoot101
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 11:09amThat would be too good to be true.
Report Post »Polwatcher
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 1:16pmCan’t top that. That‘s the best reply I’ve seen.
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