{"id":479,"date":"2008-02-20T17:57:06","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T21:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/20\/google-maps-conflated-records\/"},"modified":"2008-02-20T17:57:06","modified_gmt":"2008-02-20T21:57:06","slug":"google-maps-conflated-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/20\/google-maps-conflated-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps: Conflated Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Nicholson of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitbritain.com\">VisitBritain.org<\/a> has shared an unusual problem with Google Maps:<\/p>\n<p><em>Google has combined two listings (despite me registering our business as the correct details) thus giving a &#8220;kind of competitor&#8221; the picture as a screenshot of their product and the email and url as theirs! and there doesnt seem a way to fix this with Google!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here are the screenshots&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>For the <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=l&amp;view=map&amp;hl=en&amp;q=britain+london+visitor+center&amp;near=london+england&amp;ie=UTF8\">Britain London Visitor Center<\/a> :<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/blvc.jpg\" alt=\"blvc.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And for the apparent cause for the conflict, <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?hl=en&amp;q=London+Pass+london+england&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;sa=N&amp;tab=wl\">London Pass Collection Center: <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?hl=en&amp;q=London+Pass+london+england&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;sa=N&amp;tab=wl\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/londonpass.jpg\" alt=\"londonpass.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If anyone has experienced anything similar, I would love to know about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Nicholson of VisitBritain.org has shared an unusual problem with Google Maps: Google has combined two listings (despite me registering our business as the correct details) thus giving a &#8220;kind of competitor&#8221; the picture as a screenshot of their product and the email and url as theirs! and there doesnt seem a way to fix &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-maps-google-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}