The Fake Neighborhoods on Google Maps

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[@Dave_Sisson]

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]

you are my hero!

[@aaditbhatia6551]

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]

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

[@Dave_Sisson]

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]

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 Lots of place names are historical references to something that was once important nearby whether it be a physical thing or simply an event of significance that happened there the latter would include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.

[@superj1e2z6]

The ad transition was more confusing than quantum mechanics.

[@forgottenfamily]

Something more confusing than quantum mechanics? Inconceivable

[@davidrallison7038]

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

[@rodigoduterte9192]

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

[@DaveSohan]

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

[@wizardkoer782]

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

[@kevinlee7263]

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]

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

[@one_smol_duck]

@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]

@@one_smol_duck absolutely

[@billcounterstrike]

"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]

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

[@thegunnitgamer5716]

@@alwong604 Pfft more like daily

[@SunnyandBunny]

but my rent is 3 figure yearly lol

[@maddykrantz]

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]

I am from SF and I lean Republican.

[@teamion4467]

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

[@KnuxMaster368]

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

[@David_Larkin]

@@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]

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]

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

[@leohabs0774]

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),

[@SuicideBunny6]

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

[@klassicneo]

I had to pause to read that lol

[@abhiinair]

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

[@abhiinair]

Or if that's too much then 0.25x

[@saral9817]

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

[@abhiinair]

@@saral9817 lol. 😂

[@funky555]

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

[@liamdstuff]

That’s offensive to over 5 million people.

[@liamjones5616]

@@liamdstuff 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]

@@liamdstuff chill dude im a kiwi hes just joking

[@-rheto-7837]

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

[@Matio25091]

r/mapswithoutnz

[@ktjmitchell7722]

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]

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

[@theodorewinston7625]

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

[@MastaSmack]

Are you my hook worm?

[@niriro5741]

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]

@@niriro5741 😂😂

[@lydiamorgan9180]

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]

Of terror?.

[@wthrwyz]

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]

Nathan Williams people still go to malls.

[@thomasritzgerald4997]

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

[@ryanroberts1104]

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

[@wasd____]

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

[@epiccollision]

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

[@dx1450]

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]

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_]

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]

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.

[@kaidenrogers]

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

[@SangitaKumarii]

Thanks for telling.

[@ceiling771]

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

[@firewolf950tfwgaming7]

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

[@luvhoes8834]

Ceiling btw im from Costa Rica lmao

[@limbonlegs1662]

Just wait for RaId shAd0w ledGendS to start ww3

[@aspenpawarts9333]

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]

Luv Hoes same

[@jeansibelius5721]

A nightmare for people playing geoguessr

[@dillonwilsonscott6681]

Haha, love geogeussr

[@janegeland7596]

straight up what i was thinking

[@arslayah3169]

i love geoguessr too

[@bgezal]

Germany is a geoguessr nightmare.

[@senecanero3874]

@@bgezal why?

[@chrislamb6609]

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.

[@MyOzempicJourney]

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

[@llabavi367]

You have a neighborhood called like a beer?

[@MyOzempicJourney]

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

[@FutureNow]

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

[@meevil24]

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

[@keremtopalismailoglu933]

Uploud more!!!

[@MIXMAXENTERTAINMENT]

Stop Getting 2 top comments now

[@EditEraseRewrite]

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

[@tuatarian6591]

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

[@supersoulty]

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]

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

[@germyw]

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

[@TrashDeviant]

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

[@Pomagranite167]

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

[@JD-ex7gp]

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

[@ethanwasme4307]

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

[@haydencassidy9536]

same lol !

[@eatingcereal5646]

I want to go to Where?

[@anybudz]

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

[@Soredli]

@Julian WilliamsMarmus its those 2 idiots

[@lik3OMJ]

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]

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

[@ibx2cat]

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]

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

[@Hoehlenmaensch]

WHAT? youtubers watch other KZbinrs. Weird stuff. Kappa

[@CountlessPWNZ]

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

[@josgeerink9434]

IBX!!!

[@FlameRat_YehLon]

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).

[@FutureNow]

Paper Towns: Google Maps Edition

[@Aedar]

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]

No yeah I know, totally different concept indeed.

[@jimday666]

Google maps still copied that map with typos on it.

[@askhowiknow5527]

FutureNow Digital towns

[@user-sy2ou8gn4f]

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

[@gameglitcher]

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]

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

[@Knightmessenger]

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

[@rodrigoraonne5486]

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

[@jeremyashford2145]

Pudding Bowl haircut.

[@thenotflatearth2714]

Half as Wendover Production

[@horntx]

Half assed wendover production lol, JK love this channel

[@mentalillness1574]

Better Than Wendover Productions

[@MajorOutage]

Ut-oh. Someone doesn't know.

[@ZNotFound]

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

[@mayrln]

@@ZNotFound no shit sherlock

[@MIXMAXENTERTAINMENT]

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

[@somemanwhoateapuertoricanl7859]

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

[@floydlooney6837]

but that would increase the property value...

[@somemanwhoateapuertoricanl7859]

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

[@-Faris-]

And probably a few deviant androids somewhere in the city

[@TriegaDN]

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.

[@wr1jeffey]

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.

[@asusmctablet9180]

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]

Well that escalated quickly!

[@AndrewTyberg]

Super unnatural sponsorship transition.

[@zacharyfilion1437]

"Any other disputed territory" *Shows Quebec*

[@KnuxMaster368]

Zachary Filion Quebec denounces HAI for implying this

[@ralebeau]

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.

[@elocinaqui24]

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"

[@peluso4oso]

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.]

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

[@thetroyzernator]

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.

[@David-cx7cj]

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

[@somniad]

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.

[@dillonwilsonscott6681]

Yep, Wendover productions definitely lives in San Fransisco

[@vinesauceobscurities]

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

[@GrijzePilion]

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

[@0cujo0]

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

[@mjmkevin]

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

[@ilonnolan9259]

mjmkevin looks more like a shopping mall symbol to me

[@FlyingFlame7]

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

[@lucasunruh6124]

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

[@timmytubede]

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

[@theraphman2.0]

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

[@rea8585]

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

[@saral9817]

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

[@Komradvsky]

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

[@koibubbles3302]

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]

He was and he wasn't.

[@rhinoknife]

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

[@NYpaddler]

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

[@alexbarnes5011]

Hope there’s planes in this one

[@meevil24]

Sadly, there weren't any planes

[@HNT63]

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

[@grangermontag1824]

Not even a Toyota Corolla

[@gary4130]

Without the Toyota Corollas, we cannot thrive as a species

[@sinecurve9999]

That segue to Brilliant was strained af...

[@levfurlannosan2134]

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

[@hamzaizourane]

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.

[@MagnificentBirb]

New Zealand once again forgotten from the world

[@somemanwhoateapuertoricanl7859]

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

[@MarloSoBalJr]

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

[@Friendship1nmillion]

*AND* Australia.

[@richardemms3050]

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

[@musicman8345]

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

[@goldndrago3491]

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

[@MLIOGJXNUYAT]

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.

[@guitarguy3378]

That transition to the brilliant sponsor though, brilliant

[@buddyclem7328]

I thought it was Half As Interesting.

[@TheAgamidaex]

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

[@dcassus]

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.

[@9600bauds]

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

[@gru7259]

more like twice as interesting

[@anon4336]

*Wendover Productions is typing*

[@buddyclem7328]

Behold!

[@andymadden8183]

And twice as funny!

[@soardev]

The Schrödinger’s cat made me remember bunny girl senpai

[@Rosie-fx1rp]

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

[@TheNicestPig]

Ahhh, good show that was...

[@Slenderquil]

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

[@lyfandeth]

Most commercial cartographers intentionally put obscure errors in their maps, so if someone rips off their work it is immediately recognizable.

[@MalcadorTheSigilite]

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

[@damirock98]

Deep web of course

[@alphabet_soup123]

Naimad The wikipedia list! TWL :)

[@MalcadorTheSigilite]

@@alphabet_soup123 Oh right Forgot about it haha Thanks

[@hkr667]

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.

[@Theo-lo1yc]

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

[@adithyaramachandran7427]

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.

[@praticm2846]

0:48 Nobody: My mind:Feel proud that you're 1 among the 2.5 billion smartphone users Me:Dude are you for real 🙄

[@christianlynch5507]

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

[@ClassicsFroms-sq7zk]

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

[@iicecone]

imagine starting a war because you checked your phone and saw that another country's land is yours. Google would sure do a big oopsie

[@Knightmessenger]

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.

[@betovega91cr91]

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]

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

[@PuzzlesExplained]

lol the puns! "The benevolent dictator" 😂

[@dylanhill1512]

It's funny how your thumbnail for this video includes the name of your staunchest competitor.

[@Krissy_Bunnie]

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.

[@robinsinhaxii-a3848]

_That_ was my favorite ad transition

[@CandyCaneArms]

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

[@bakomusha]

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.

[@moontheraisin6444]

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

[@garrickwally8820]

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

[@hallowizer440]

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

[@jeffbenton6183]

It's not lying if it's sarcasm

[@Wireddred]

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

[@JoshuaGoudreau]

2:23 As a Mainer I would like to clarify, the island is pronounced with a long I. Mach-eye-us not mach-ee-us. Pronouncing things in Maine is an art

[@aaronworsnop]

That’s Brilliant! See what I did there?

[@Prsdntcrnt]

I see what you did

[@neria1372]

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

[@elisassoon5791]

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.

[@lonelycrona2388]

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

[@ThisCatLikesCrypto]

'Wendover Heights' Me: HANG ON. I'VE BEEN THERE.

[@aaronworsnop]

Some say New Zealand others say where, 😂 lol Like if you’re from NZ

[@asticlol]

i didnt get it

[@lightdarkequivalent7143]

East Australia, right?

[@lightdarkequivalent7143]

OOH! like North North America?

[@vytah]

What does NZ stand for?

[@rtmfry]

New Zealand is often left off world maps.

[@MegaCrazy554]

Who else is mad on the way he pronounced Machias? 😂

[@kelhapam]

I'm sure for most place names, you can find a KZbin video which will have the right pronunciation. Shouldn't you go to that effort before just taking a guess? (Thinking of all the other Maine towns with Indian (er..Native American) names which he would mess up.)

[@gracekurtz7251]

I scrolled so far just to find a comment about this to make sure I didn't have to make it myself, but yes!

[@OLBastholm]

I went straight to Google Maps, navigated to San Francisco and found this neighborhood. It's called Rincon Hill. Did this video make a change to Google Maps?

[@SmartCrime]

0:36 "Google if you're reading this please don't ban this channel I kinda need this job......."

[@DanielSmith-cg1mi]

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

[@deanbeckerley5530]

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.

[@dustinheese]

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.

[@shhmule]

You stated that neighbourhood names aren't official, but every neighbourhood where I live is decided by the local council, and is promulgated on official maps. Nothing made up here.

[@BobMcCoy]

*England is a country on Google Maps for some reason... smh*

[@chongjunxiang3002]

Well, in UK English language, England is really a country, same as Scotland, Wales (Northern Ireland usually doesn't count, it consider as region). As its name apply, it is really a country of countries united into one.

[@-SUM1-]

What do you think it is, a city?

[@ByddinRhyddidCymru]

chongjunxiang3002 Northern Ireland is Britain’s largest colony

[@pix_d20]

England is my city!

[@hijack69]

England is a city actually

[@sohopedeco]

One example in São Paulo is the neighborhood of Cerqueira César. I have no fucking idea what are the boundaries between Cerqueira César, Bela Vista, Consolação, Higienópolis and Jardim Paulista, given the are is simply not really large; but I just believe anything Google is telling.

[@sansirow4595]

"Higienópolis" nome ó 💯

[@TriegaDN]

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.

[@LiamS94]

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...

[@ereewrwdawwe]

Wait how aren't neighborhood names official ? Aren't neighborhood names decided by the city mayor and the government of the country, there are street signs with the name of the neighborhood, as well as building in said neighborhood are officially part of it which is decided by city officials and in turn the government. At least thats in mt city ( Sofia, Bulgaria, East Europe) and I assume its the same for almost all cities around the world

[@christophernoga9353]

Some neighborhoods are named by the government but most of the time there isn't really a reason to put in the effort to divide up large cities into neighborhoods so they don't bother.

[@belenmora6989]

More like the other way around in my country... sometimes neighborhoods appear (due to the unplanned growth of the city) people give them names because of random things, the names become popular and then the government recognizes the name. Some neighborhoods are planned and have official names from the start but really most of the neighborhoods are just named by the people, sometimes the oficial name is not popular and is not used and the government ends up changing it to the popular one... and I guess this happens in a lot of other cities too

[@JeremyLevi]

In the city where I live it depends on how old the neighbourhood is. The oldest ones have the official names of the villages they used to be before the city enveloped them. The older neighbourhoods that grew up between those villages just got called whatever the locals started referring to them as. The newer neighbourhoods (from maybe the 60's on) have the official names that the developers gave them when they built them all at once. And no, not all the neighbourhood names here appear on Google Maps, not even some of the oldest officially named ones. Some of the oldest named villages turned neighbourhoods are left off, I think because Google considers them too small to bother to label, even though local residents definitely use the official name.

[@keananvanhees7716]

Cop that New Zealand

[@PJonezki]

who?

[@JBlooey]

"GOOGLE IF YOU'RE READING THIS PLEASE DON'T BAN THIS CHANNEL. I KINDA NEED THIS JOB" ~The Animator

[@roccosalvino3554]

3:28 AM and this pops up on my home page, it's obvious that i'm going to watch it and fall into the rabbit hole of useless but interesting information