Dear Google Maps,

I love you.  You have disrupted me for the last four years, changing my life forever.

I feel that you must return my feelings.  After all, you indexed the entire KML collection of my city’s RESTful property database.

Google Maps search for maps.nanaimo.ca

You seem shy to admit your love.  No matter how hard people look, you won’t reveal our secret.  Instead, you show a cold public face of centreline geocoding and pretty pictures.

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Please Google Maps, won’t you shout our love from the rooftops, exposing our deep data relationship to the world?

Yours Unrequited…

-J

4 thoughts on “Dear Google Maps,

  1. I like how there is a “write a review” option for each address. Perhaps we can use it to critique your data capture quality?!

    But yes it’s a pity you can’t get from an address search to your property reports.It will come – you just have to be patient. If you really loved them, you’d wait.

  2. Guess I should think about that trading performance for accuracy. This data is optimized for display speed, and isn’t necessarily as accurate as the source (which is generally ~10cm horizontal in its “native” projection).