Google Come up with Ghost Town Mystery
November 3, 2009 | Posted by admin Google raises Argleton cities that do not exist. City of ghosts that appear on Google Maps has puzzled experts internet.
Cities that appear on Google Maps in a field near the M58 motorway, just south of Ormskirk England.
Searching on the Internet also presents a series of homes, jobs and the list matchmaker who lived in Argleton
Google and the company that supplies the mapping data can not explain the presence of a ghost town and was investigating
Joe Moran, an academic at Liverpool John Moores University and a master map, said: “This could be an intentional mistake that one can not trace the map. Sometimes fictional streets deliberately placed as to prove that an error has been traced. I have not heard it was previously on Google Maps.”
A spokesman for Google said: “Although most of the information is correct tpai sometimes things go wrong. We’re always trying to improve the quality and accuracy of the information available on Google Maps and appreciate your feedback of our users in helping us do that. The people can reported the problem to the data provider directly and this will be updated at a later date.”
Data for this program is provided by the Dutch company Tele Atlas. A spokesman said the city will remove it from the map.
He added: “Mistakes like this are not common, and I really can not explain why this anomaly into our database.”
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