By adamg on Tue., 1/7/2020 - 1:22 pm 
Wait, what's that next to White Stadium?
Eeka the alert Apple Maps user alerted us today that the mapping service is now placing the USS Cassin Young in Franklin Park, next to White Stadium. If it's on the Internet, it must be true, so we guess you'll need to stop going to the Charlestown Navy Yard to see the ship.
Oh, wait, Apple Maps was also the service that decided Methadone Mile was worthy enough to be noted on maps, so maybe hold that thought.
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New urban legend incoming
By Lanny Budd
Tue, 01/07/2020 - 1:42pm
Cue the "We are a lighthouse. Your call." stories.
Can we lock up off leash dog
By Kinopio
Tue, 01/07/2020 - 1:42pm
Can we lock up off leash dog owners in the ship’s brig? I’ve been attacked in Franklin Park by off leash dogs multiple times in the last year.
But he's friendly!
By Parkwayne
Tue, 01/07/2020 - 2:03pm
He just wants to say hello!
people use apple maps?
By anon
Tue, 01/07/2020 - 1:46pm
people use apple maps?
People use Apple maps.
By ljd
Tue, 01/07/2020 - 2:32pm
Yes, anon!
Better than Hooli
By Parkwayne
Tue, 01/07/2020 - 4:08pm
at least
Not sure why, but yes they do
By Gary C
Tue, 01/07/2020 - 2:55pm
My son "hates" Google Maps, even though they are clearly superior.
(And my wife still Mapquests things too...)
Not generally
By eeka
Tue, 01/07/2020 - 9:50pm
This was specifically the map view in “Find My.â€
Meh, Google Maps has screw-ups like this all the time
By anon
Tue, 01/07/2020 - 1:53pm
There was apparently a new regional helipad in my rural neighborhood this summer, according to Gmaps.
Paper Streets
By Reality Check
Tue, 01/07/2020 - 2:41pm
In google maps, my dead end street is sometimes shown as ending in a nonexistent street, which goes out to a state highway.
So now and again we have random drivers screeching to a halt where the street ends, and then angrily turning around.
non-existant districts
By mg
Tue, 01/07/2020 - 5:09pm
Several years ago, there was a petition to designate Newton Highlands as an historical district. It was voted down, and wouldn't have changed the name of that area, but Google has changed Newton Highlands to Newton Highlands Historical District on their maps.
MIT hack
By anon
Tue, 01/07/2020 - 2:25pm
Students from MIT stole the Cassin from its berth in Charlestown, and sailed it up the Charles to the Muddy River on a Spring Tide. There was a brief portage to Stoney Brook, to Canterbury, then dragged on rollers through Franklin Park. They can do the math.
When Apple Maps debuted, it
By anon
Tue, 01/07/2020 - 2:46pm
When Apple Maps debuted, it had problems literally all over the map. For instance, it listed Roxbury District Court on Warren Street ... in Charlestown.
ya, i remember a few people
By schneidz
Tue, 01/07/2020 - 3:51pm
ya, i remember a few people died being stranded in deserts, driving into lakes, ...
if you're that dumb you need to be taken out of the gene pool
By anon
Wed, 01/08/2020 - 2:22am
Anyone dumb enough to blindly follow their GPS into a body of water does not deserve to reproduce.
Obligatory
By erik g
Thu, 01/09/2020 - 9:03am
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Rumor Has It
By hundel
Tue, 01/07/2020 - 6:26pm
Early incidents of bad locations were fed to these services by datasets they were scraping from. A classic response to data theft is to serve bad values. If your goal is to go to court you don’t want them to notice (software, dictionaries, product descriptions). But sometimes it’s just as useful to have some fun and place their Golden Gate Bridge in the middle of the ocean while leaving yours right where it belongs.
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