By Kim Dong Gyu
University of Ulsan
Have you ever used Google Maps when you travel? If so, you might want to continue reading since it could save you a major headache later on.
Taehwa river is located in Ulsan, South Korea, and is one of Ulsan’s top tourist spots. However, the river is wrongly recorded as Yamato River on Google Maps.
When the Ulsan City Government found this error, they requested for this situation to be rectified.
At first, Ulsan City did not receive any news or feedback from Google for nearly two months. However, Google did change the name as soon as Ulsan Broadcasting system reported it in newspapers and via broadcasters.
These Google Map errors do not only occur here in Korea. In America for example, Google Maps also have incorrect addresses.
For many years, Google Maps sent people to the incorrect location, the “Storm Mountain Center”, when they had in fact typed “Mount Rushmore”.
It was about thirteen miles away from the actual Mount Rushmore. This caused problems because many tourists lost their way and never got to see the real Mount Rushmore.
Google Maps is an essential element for travelers. Nowadays, it is hard to find people who do not own a smartphone possibly making use of Google Maps when they travel.
So, if the information is wrong it can be confusing and cause all sorts of problems for tourists.
To avoid this from happening in your neighborhood, city or country, how about doing some research on your city, finding errors and reporting them to Google so they can be corrected?
