Monday, December 2, 2013

Something's not quite right here

I was doing a lot of GIS work last week, and ran across this interesting view of the area just west of downtown Lincoln in Google Maps. How long did it take you to spot the most glaring error?

click image for larger view

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/us6.cfm ??

Tom Casady said...

5:30,

That was news to me, but it obviously is not an error: U.S. Highway 6 really is the Grand Army of the Republic Highway. Keep looking.

Excel_Geek said...

Platte River! LOLZ!

Anonymous said...

Platte River moved!!!

Anonymous said...

Didn't realize the Platte spilled over into Salt Creek!

Steve said...

I actually spotted that some time ago while looking for something else. I had to wonder if I was losing my mind or if someone else had.

Anonymous said...

I noticed that Platte River error about a month ago when I was looking for a map to the branch library in Air Park. I've never been to Air Park in 58 years of living in Lincoln, so I google-mapped the library and noticed the Platte River tag. I decided it was too far if I had to cross the Platte River to get to it.:)

Anonymous said...

I submitted the error to Google a few weeks ago but they still haven't changed it. Many of the streams around Lincoln are named the Platte ~_~ .....

ARRRRG!!!! said...

No wonder I'm always getting lost! I have to quit using Google Maps.

Rory Dunne said...

Its entirely possible that this is a "trap street"!. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street

Tom Casady said...

Rory,

That's a new one on me. Thanks for the link!

Trina said...

I haven't had a Runza or frings for several years now, dangit, but this map reminded me!