Comments on: How long has Rogers, MN been misplaced? Let me count the minutes….

By: Eight Little Gripes With Google Maps « SEO Blog

Eight Little Gripes With Google Maps « SEO Blog — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 01:51:41 +0000

[...] more gripes if all of the citizens of Rogers, MN. pipe up about the fact that their entire town has gone missing in Maps. No, there are just too many mistakes, errors and oddities for me to handle. What I want to [...]

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:52:28 +0000

I doubt that overall the Garmin is much more accurate than Google but it might be…Google collects much of their underlying data via cars with GPS driving around…

By: Candace

Candace — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:07:08 +0000

Yikes! That’s why I use a Garmin Zumo 550 for directions and do not rely on Google Maps. Does Google actually use GPS to update their maps? how can they lose a whole town?

By: Taiyo

Taiyo — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:42:45 +0000

Poor Rogers

I feel sorry for any web consultant with a client in Rogers. I am sure they are having fun explaining to their client how Google lost the entire town…
(Of course it is even worse for the businesses there)

I have a client whose listing disappeared and reappeared twice from the top of the 7-pack over a 3 day period…

I may take up drinking

By: Earlpearl

Earlpearl — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:11:36 +0000

I usually find lost keys, a wallet, or any other thing in my house within a week. I assume Rogers is somewhere in the google geo data base.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:46:42 +0000

Should have known you already had that covered Mike.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:42:03 +0000

@Scott

the Rogers that your search points is not the “right” Rogers. Your search points to an area SW of St Paul. The “real” Rogers is NW of St Paul

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:24:00 +0000

Mike,

I perform the searches from your previous post and get the same results you do. Have you done a search for just the town though? Google finds just the town:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=rogers,+mn&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rlz=1R1GGGL_en___US315&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=Rogers,+MN&gl=us&ei=nWWqS4DbBI-oNp3PtasB&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=image&resnum=1&ved=0CA0Q8gEwAA

Sorry if you have already pointed this out.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:46:56 +0000

@Miriam

I think that lost sock theory is likely to be true. I mean with socks you always end up with one out of the pair. Well Rogers seems to be in the same situation, only one can be found.

By: MiriamEllis

MiriamEllis — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:42:48 +0000

Rogers has gone where the socks do – into the black hole of the washing machine.

Love the widget. Come on, Google: it’s time to help Rogers out!