The Fake Neighborhoods on Google Maps

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  • @Dave_Sisson
    @Dave_Sisson Před 5 lety +2879

    A few years ago, I noticed a street with no name in Google Maps. So I submitted the information that it was Gallows Court in the Australian ski town of Hotham Heights. Unlike other times I've done this, nothing happened. It appears that Google thought that Gallows Court was such a macabre and unlikely name for a street that it was more likely to be a false name submitted by several people as a joke. So I followed up with a new submission that included a photo of a street sign and links to government sources naming the street and eventually, Gallows Court at Hotham Heights appeared on Google Maps.

    • @mikatu
      @mikatu Před 5 lety +111

      you are my hero!

    • @aaditbhatia6551
      @aaditbhatia6551 Před 5 lety +186

      Next to my town in google maps, even inside it, there’s a place called Unionville. Union villa doesn’t exist. I would have driven through there before, because it’s, like, where the town center is, but...

    • @difluzi2950
      @difluzi2950 Před 5 lety +55

      There appears to be multiple unnamed roads in that area, but i found Gallows court ;)

    • @Dave_Sisson
      @Dave_Sisson Před 5 lety +85

      Difluzi, a lot of those roads are just access tracks to things like ski lifts and the sewage works, so it's not surprising they are unnamed. But Gallows Court has houses and ski lodges on it, making it a proper street. BTW, Hotham also has a well known, but very steep ski run called Hangmans Drop which is marked on trail maps... so there is a rather strange theme there.

    • @seraphina985
      @seraphina985 Před 5 lety +46

      Hmm if anything a name like Gallows Court would to me just make me think that there is probably some historical connection I would probably have just assumed that at one point there were literal gallows in that area somewhere. Lots of place names are historical references to something that was once important nearby whether it be a physical thing or simply an event of significance that happened there the latter would include things like Battlefield, Shrewsbury so named due to it's proximity to the location of the 1403 Battle of Shrewsbury. But yeah a lot of history is pretty macabe so really such names are hardly surprising.

  • @SuicideBunny6
    @SuicideBunny6 Před 5 lety +2236

    "Google, if you're reading this, please don't ban this channel, I kinda need this job." - The Animator
    😂😂

    • @klassicneo
      @klassicneo Před 5 lety +25

      I had to pause to read that lol

    • @abhiinair
      @abhiinair Před 5 lety +11

      @@klassicneo You could always slow it down to 0.5x

    • @abhiinair
      @abhiinair Před 5 lety +15

      Or if that's too much then 0.25x

    • @saral9817
      @saral9817 Před 5 lety +9

      @@abhiinair I slowed it down to 0.25 I still thought it said -the administrator until I read this comment:p

    • @abhiinair
      @abhiinair Před 5 lety

      @@saral9817 lol. 😂

  • @kevinlee7263
    @kevinlee7263 Před 4 lety +588

    I deliver pizza in a small rural town and on one of my runs I was delivering on a small stretch of road that was supposed to be part of a numbered street, but Google maps has it labeled as "Chanterelle lane" (chanterelle being a type of mushroom.) I asked the older couple that I was delivering to if they knew anything about it, and they said "oh, our son works for Google and when he came to visit he was so impressed by how many chanterelles grew here that he decided to change the name of the street for our block." So much for accuracy and authoritative sourcing of street names.

    • @thorkappabrosilon
      @thorkappabrosilon Před 3 lety +8

      @Hunter Vogel Many would disagree. Numbered streets make for easier navigation.

    • @one_smol_duck
      @one_smol_duck Před 3 lety +43

      @Hunter Vogel if the street signs and addresses are changed to reflect it then sure. But the purpose of a map is to help you navigate. If you set the street name to something unofficial, that's defeating the purpose of a map.

    • @livewellwitheds6885
      @livewellwitheds6885 Před 2 lety +2

      @@one_smol_duck absolutely

  • @billcounterstrike
    @billcounterstrike Před 5 lety +772

    "If you're from San Francisco, there are probably a few things you've never heard of -- toast without avocados, three-figure rent, Republicans and the East Cut neighborhood" I died laughing at "three-figure rent"

    • @alwong604
      @alwong604 Před 3 lety +42

      The only way rent is three figures is if it's weekly

    • @thegunnitgamer5716
      @thegunnitgamer5716 Před 3 lety +20

      @@alwong604 Pfft more like daily

    • @SunnyandBunny
      @SunnyandBunny Před 3 lety +5

      but my rent is 3 figure yearly lol

    • @maddykrantz
      @maddykrantz Před 3 lety +11

      I have a republican neighbor and we are good friends with them. Whenever we go on trips (Before COVID) they would always offer to take care of our dog for free and before covid, they would walk her in the middle of the day without asking us to pay them just because they really like our dog. Also, they are catholic and we are Jewish. They also like to make our food and they love having us over for snacks/dinner. They are also pretty well off and they LOVE inviting my mom and dad over to try fancy and expensive wines, and they travel to Oregon a lot for wine tasting.
      (P.S, they went to Oregon 2 times in 2020 following all of the COVID guidelines. They went there to pick up some wine and go to a winery they like up there, and they quarantined for 2 weeks after both trips.)
      It's just annoying when they try to bring up politics. Luckily they aren't homophobic. Also, they aren't super extreme republican and they don't openly talk about it either. You'd only know their political views if you tried to talk about politics with them. Also, they voted for trump but they luckily understood by mid-November that there was no election fraud. They claim to be "independent" but we just think that they are just saying that because of the VERY BLUE and anti-red culture in SF. SF is about 90% democrat and 10% republican.

    • @thefriedchickenbucket
      @thefriedchickenbucket Před 2 lety +8

      I am from SF and I lean Republican.

  • @superj1e2z6
    @superj1e2z6 Před 5 lety +4506

    The ad transition was more confusing than quantum mechanics.

    • @forgottenfamily
      @forgottenfamily Před 5 lety +47

      Something more confusing than quantum mechanics? Inconceivable

    • @davidrallison7038
      @davidrallison7038 Před 5 lety +196

      When he starts to talk bullshit, that's the cue for you to click away. The video is over.

    • @rodigoduterte9192
      @rodigoduterte9192 Před 5 lety +7

      superj1e2z6 perhaps even studying an arithmetic for a kindergarten looks easier than understanding it

    • @DaveSohan
      @DaveSohan Před 5 lety +38

      Hate how HAI transitions to ads like it's something relevant to the video

    • @wizardkoer782
      @wizardkoer782 Před 5 lety +16

      Clearly you don't know what quantum mechanics is then lol. That was the smoothest nerdy transition to an ad I've ever seen.

  • @teamion4467
    @teamion4467 Před 5 lety +2897

    “Any other disputed area”
    *shows picture of Quebec*

    • @KnuxMaster368
      @KnuxMaster368 Před 5 lety +79

      Team ION
      Quebec Parliament: *French* "Denounce this HAI dude, he called us a disputed territory"

    • @David_Larkin
      @David_Larkin Před 5 lety +29

      @@KnuxMaster368 i could be a douche and say that it's not really called the parliement (which is in Ottawa and is for the federal government) and it's called: L'Assemblée Nationale (national assembly if you don't speak french and government name in Québec cannot be translated)

    • @jmcbresilfr
      @jmcbresilfr Před 5 lety +36

      First thing I thought was the border between Québec and Labrador. I am a big Québec nationalist but I don't really see how the province is a disputed territory right now.

    • @ReaperUnreal
      @ReaperUnreal Před 5 lety +24

      As a Franco-Ontarian with a staunch separatist family, I thought it was hilarious.

    • @leohabs0774
      @leohabs0774 Před 5 lety +12

      you see, there is a political party in Quebec called "Le Parti Québecois", Originally founded by René Lévesque. One of Lévesque's promises was to separate the province of Quebec from Canada, making Quebec an independent country. There was then a vote in Quebec between the Liberals (P-E Trudeau) and the Parti Québecois (Lévesque). The Liberals won 60% to 40%, so there was no separation. That being said, the Parti Québécois still exists today and, while I am not sure that their leader (Jean-François Lisée) wants to separate like Lévesque did, they could still win an election, and there may be a slight chance that Quebec separates from Canada.
      (By the way, even if i live in Quebec, i do not support the Parti Quebecois, and hope that the province stays in Canada forever),

  • @funky555
    @funky555 Před 5 lety +1362

    "some say New Zealand"
    others say "where"
    LMAO XD

    • @liamstuffdoer
      @liamstuffdoer Před 4 lety +21

      That’s offensive to over 5 million people.

    • @liamjones5616
      @liamjones5616 Před 4 lety +75

      @@liamstuffdoer being from NZ i can assure you none of us give a flying fuck if people know we exist. we get to live on a tropical island while these nerds freeze over winter

    • @tylerwichman
      @tylerwichman Před 4 lety +12

      @@liamstuffdoer chill dude im a kiwi hes just joking

    • @-rheto-7837
      @-rheto-7837 Před 4 lety +5

      Blokkyy
      u shouldnt be offended if ur not a kiwi ngl.

    • @Matio25091
      @Matio25091 Před 4 lety +6

      r/mapswithoutnz

  • @ktjmitchell7722
    @ktjmitchell7722 Před 3 lety +69

    Honestly, the East cut sounds like some $8.50 sandwich that is sold at your local sandwich shop down the street instead of a Neighborhood

  • @theodorewinston7625
    @theodorewinston7625 Před 5 lety +1101

    "Where do you live?" "I LIVE IN THE EYE!"

    • @MastaSmack
      @MastaSmack Před 5 lety +9

      Are you my hook worm?

    • @niriro5741
      @niriro5741 Před 4 lety +32

      I actually did live in the eye. For a month, was in between places with this virus so I got an air bnb there in the meantime. And yes, it's as shitty as you'd expect

    • @ashleyshim2078
      @ashleyshim2078 Před 4 lety

      @@niriro5741 😂😂

    • @lydiamorgan9180
      @lydiamorgan9180 Před 3 lety +15

      I used to have a job driving around the Detroit area picking up dog poop, and I remember a neighborhood called the eye, and I was wondering why such an ominous name for such a plain neighborhood.

    • @dariustiapula
      @dariustiapula Před 3 lety +3

      Of terror?.

  • @FutureNow
    @FutureNow Před 5 lety +4183

    Wow, you went from maps to quantum mechanics to sponsor. Bravo.

    • @meevil24
      @meevil24 Před 5 lety +162

      Going from Maps to Quantum Mechanics is the most random subject jump ever

    • @keremtopalismailoglu933
      @keremtopalismailoglu933 Před 5 lety +1

      Uploud more!!!

    • @MIXMAXENTERTAINMENT
      @MIXMAXENTERTAINMENT Před 5 lety +7

      Stop Getting 2 top comments now

    • @EditEraseRewrite
      @EditEraseRewrite Před 5 lety +10

      He's getting sloppy; I saw that segue coming from a -mile- few kilometers away. C'mon, Wendy.

    • @tuatarian6591
      @tuatarian6591 Před 5 lety +1

      I see you everywhere (I will say this everytime I see you in comments)

  • @kaidenrogers
    @kaidenrogers Před 5 lety +296

    "Google if you're reading this please don't ban this channel I kinda need this job -the animator"
    - 0:38

  • @dx1450
    @dx1450 Před 3 lety +38

    I remember years ago hearing the possibly true urban legend that some mapmakers will add in a fake town here or there in order to catch plagiarists. If another map company simply copies the first company's maps including the fake town, it's easy for them to prove copyright violation. I don't know if that's what's going on here or not.

    • @WildBluntHickok
      @WildBluntHickok Před 2 lety +2

      Fun fact: that once resulted in a fake town becoming real. Someone set up a highway cafe on the spot marked as the center of the imaginary town and gave that town as their address. Now it's considered a real town (with a single digit population).

    • @mathiew_
      @mathiew_ Před 2 lety

      My favourite example of this was when two clearly Michigan College Football enthusiasts added the copyright traps of "Beatosu" and "Goblu" to nearby Ohio.

    • @jonjohnson3027
      @jonjohnson3027 Před rokem +7

      It happens. There was a local mapmaker near where I live, who made detailed road maps for the county and towns in the area (I have some of his maps). He openly admitted to a few "fake" streets on his maps.
      Until his death, the maps were considered to be the best, most authoritative maps of the area (in spite of the fake streets that didn't exist). Interesting thing is, every map was hand drawn and hand lettered. He never used a computer; he passed away at the age of 96 in 2012 (and was publishing updated maps until his death).
      He is memorialized by a street in Vancouver, Washington: Phil Arnold Way.

  • @wthrwyz
    @wthrwyz Před 5 lety +504

    Google used to allow anyone to edit their map with a tool called Map Maker. Chances are, a lot of those strange neighborhood names were added (against the ToS, I might add) by well-meaning contributors copying dubious sources. Now that the editing tool is gone, there's no easy way to interact with those "neighborhood" elements on the map. The only way to fix them now is to submit a problem report in Maps and hope someone at Google reads it before the neighborhood gets bulldozed to make way for the next mega mall.

    • @gfjfjufidi2880
      @gfjfjufidi2880 Před 4 lety +6

      Nathan Williams people still go to malls.

    • @thomasritzgerald4997
      @thomasritzgerald4997 Před 4 lety +10

      @Gfjfj Ufidi
      ????????????

    • @ryanroberts1104
      @ryanroberts1104 Před 3 lety +7

      @@gfjfjufidi2880 They still have malls? I haven't seen one in years...

    • @wasd____
      @wasd____ Před 3 lety +6

      @@gfjfjufidi2880 Malls are still a thing? Where do you live, and how can I find this time warp back to the 1990s?

    • @epiccollision
      @epiccollision Před 3 lety +5

      Might be why map maker is invite only now, and hidden

  • @ceiling771
    @ceiling771 Před 5 lety +1188

    *When a mobile app almost started a war between two countries*

    • @firewolf950tfwgaming7
      @firewolf950tfwgaming7 Před 5 lety +54

      Google: pushes Mexico boarded up by 100 feet
      Mexico: has people go to said area
      U.S.:declares war

    • @luvhoes8834
      @luvhoes8834 Před 4 lety +3

      Ceiling btw im from Costa Rica lmao

    • @limbonlegs1662
      @limbonlegs1662 Před 3 lety +3

      Just wait for RaId shAd0w ledGendS to start ww3

    • @aspenpawarts9333
      @aspenpawarts9333 Před 3 lety +4

      Liam Cook RIAOLS- (the caps letters- is its a letter)
      R. aid
      I. s
      A.
      O. bjectivly
      L. ousy
      S. hart (gotta keep it PG lol)

    • @generpicado7838
      @generpicado7838 Před 3 lety

      Luv Hoes same

  • @MyOzempicJourney
    @MyOzempicJourney Před 3 lety +33

    In Chicago, GM has a neighborhood called the “Lower West Side” . That’s not even a thing. The neighborhood is called Pilsen.

    • @llabavi367
      @llabavi367 Před 2 lety +1

      You have a neighborhood called like a beer?

    • @MyOzempicJourney
      @MyOzempicJourney Před 2 lety +2

      @@llabavi367 it’s named for the same town in the Czech Republic.

  • @ethanwasme4307
    @ethanwasme4307 Před 5 lety +133

    "Some say New Zealand, others say where?"
    As a Kiwi I laughed xD

  • @ibx2cat
    @ibx2cat Před 5 lety +2724

    I've always found it absurd that Google Maps changes by country, so that many people don't even realise the world doesn't recognise some of their country.
    Let's hope the Costa Rica situation doesn't have a repeat with China haha

    • @xyZarik
      @xyZarik Před 5 lety +32

      Hey I’m subscribed to your channel!! Nice to see you here

    • @Hoehlenmaensch
      @Hoehlenmaensch Před 5 lety +58

      WHAT? youtubers watch other CZcamsrs. Weird stuff. Kappa

    • @CountlessPWNZ
      @CountlessPWNZ Před 5 lety +1

      it happens all the time, thats why it is disputed.

    • @josgeerink9434
      @josgeerink9434 Před 5 lety +5

      IBX!!!

    • @FlameRat_YehLon
      @FlameRat_YehLon Před 5 lety +32

      I've heard that the Chinese version of Google Maps uses the border line published by Chinese government. For the rest of the world though, it might or might not be true.
      But speaking of country recognition, to be honest I am kinda curious how Google Maps looks in Taiwan, as "it being a country" is not recognized by most of the world, even including the USA, as least on the surface I think. However Google mostly got no business in China so things might get weird (or it's not true, as they seems to start having something going on in China again, not sure what though).

  • @FutureNow
    @FutureNow Před 5 lety +2689

    Paper Towns: Google Maps Edition

    • @Aedar
      @Aedar Před 5 lety +37

      Well, not exactly... Paper towns are fake town created for the purpose of stopping other people from copying your map, this is more a lazy/crappy research on google's part :)

    • @FutureNow
      @FutureNow Před 5 lety +19

      No yeah I know, totally different concept indeed.

    • @jimday666
      @jimday666 Před 5 lety +13

      Google maps still copied that map with typos on it.

    • @askhowiknow5527
      @askhowiknow5527 Před 5 lety +6

      FutureNow Digital towns

    • @user-sy2ou8gn4f
      @user-sy2ou8gn4f Před 5 lety +3

      Recommend an Apple software, "Appeven" can download Apple games for free, invite friends to send points to exchange shopping cards.

  • @rodrigoraonne5486
    @rodrigoraonne5486 Před 3 lety +47

    "The East Cut sounds like a 17 dollar sandwich" LMAAAAOOOO

  • @wr1jeffey
    @wr1jeffey Před 5 lety +4

    Through out my entire life I have lived in rural areas. Because of this, I have NEVER heard of neighborhood names. Just goes to show that you can always learn something new.

  • @jeansibelius5721
    @jeansibelius5721 Před 5 lety +751

    A nightmare for people playing geoguessr

  • @supersoulty
    @supersoulty Před 5 lety +351

    Here in Pittsburgh, Google is basically creating a new neighborhood called "Bakery Square," which is a relatively small new, hip urban development (read "gentrified space") which is cut out of what used to be a heavily black neighborhood (though it now takes a small chunk of a fairly upper scale white neighborhood). You can see it on the map now, in the same font as Pittsburgh's actual neighborhoods. It also just so happens to be where Google's Pittsburgh office is located.

    • @bcubed72
      @bcubed72 Před 5 lety +20

      Yeah, the old Nabisco plant. I still remember what it smelled like when they were baking butter cookies!😊

    • @germyw
      @germyw Před 5 lety +19

      That is what's happening with google maps. These are gentrified areas. Ytpipo 😡

    • @TrashDeviant
      @TrashDeviant Před 4 lety +6

      So... You're pro segregation?
      Charming.

    • @Pomagranite167
      @Pomagranite167 Před 4 lety +21

      Gentrificatiom doesnt help the issues of segragationst all, dummy. Just moves redlines to other spaces.

    • @JD-ex7gp
      @JD-ex7gp Před 3 lety +4

      Next you'll want White Only and Colored Only water fountains again in the name of wokeness. Typical Democrat.

  • @gameglitcher
    @gameglitcher Před 3 lety +12

    I really thought "The eye" was going to be a transliteration that occurred when someone asked where do you live in Detroit? "The I"

    • @redwingjv
      @redwingjv Před 3 lety

      As someone from Detroit I’ve never heard of the eye in my life lmao

    • @Knightmessenger
      @Knightmessenger Před 2 lety

      I assumed the name was based on the shape of the neighborhood or something in the area.

  • @lik3OMJ
    @lik3OMJ Před 3 lety +5

    Google maps labeled the neighborhood I grew up in as "Velox". In my ~13 years there, I had never ever heard of that term for the neighborhood. We just referred to the area essentially by the name of the high school.

    • @larkchase4920
      @larkchase4920 Před 3 lety

      they named mine "La Villa"...I've never heard anyone call it that in my life

  • @thenotflatearth2714
    @thenotflatearth2714 Před 5 lety +854

    Half as Wendover Production

    • @devianDog
      @devianDog Před 5 lety +23

      Second half as Wendover lore

    • @horntx
      @horntx Před 5 lety +17

      Half assed wendover production lol, JK love this channel

    • @mentalillness1574
      @mentalillness1574 Před 5 lety +5

      Better Than Wendover Productions

    • @MajorOutage
      @MajorOutage Před 5 lety +24

      Ut-oh. Someone doesn't know.

    • @ZNotFound
      @ZNotFound Před 5 lety +29

      The people who make this also makes Wendover.
      Read the descriptions.

  • @peluso4oso
    @peluso4oso Před 5 lety +32

    Just around where my family lives, Google maps has the area labeled "Hickson". I've looked around for while to find what it is about but I haven't even found a historical name or town here in California ever being called "Hickson". Not near here or even anywhere in California. So I seriously don't know why it's being labeled that. Whats even more strange is that this neighborhood they've created is smacked in the middle of the intersection Sepulveda Boulevard and Devonshire Street, however, West of Sepulveda - just crossing the 405 freeway - is the real neighborhood of Granada Hills, while East of Sepulveda is the real neighborhood and, once, proper town of Mission Hills - where the Mission San Fernando is located. They each have their own zip code and all. Hickson, does not exist and shouldn't exist as it's cleaved by the widest portion of Sepulveda Blvd. Moreover, there's an area near there they've labeled "North North Hills". The town has always been called "North Hills" but somehow they've carved out a new neighborhood to its north and just tacked another "north" to it.... That's just kinda cheap.

    • @soouG.
      @soouG. Před 2 lety +4

      "North North Hills" sounds like a crappy idea for a Super Mario 64 level.

  • @lucasunruh6124
    @lucasunruh6124 Před 5 lety +2

    Yeah my old house was in the inexplicably named "Calevillo Land". And yes the only references on Google are realty and hotel search sites

  • @elocinaqui24
    @elocinaqui24 Před 5 lety +1

    I knew I wasn't crazy. Where I live Google Maps has labeled neighborhoods like "Stewart Town" and "Anscroft" that I've never heard anybody refer to ever, but misses the more prominently recognized "Hadley Farms" "Lakeforest" and "Asbury"

  • @MIXMAXENTERTAINMENT
    @MIXMAXENTERTAINMENT Před 5 lety +383

    In true Detroit fashion; there's probably heroin stashed in those houses

    • @somemanwhoateapuertoricanl7859
      @somemanwhoateapuertoricanl7859 Před 5 lety +15

      Maxvannoorloos there's scarier and shadier shit in these homes, especially if you go to the East Side

    • @floydlooney6837
      @floydlooney6837 Před 5 lety +16

      but that would increase the property value...

    • @somemanwhoateapuertoricanl7859
      @somemanwhoateapuertoricanl7859 Před 5 lety +2

      Floyd Looney why would you be asking that??? Crime rate also plays a major role into dropping property values

    • @-Faris-
      @-Faris- Před 5 lety +11

      And probably a few deviant androids somewhere in the city

    • @TriegaDN
      @TriegaDN Před 5 lety +3

      It's sad, there is a difference based on zip code. I lived in Redford township, and things are a little ghetto but pretty normal there, but when you go down six mile into Detroit, things start to look more ghetto instantly. There are even neighborhoods inside the city of Detroit that are in some cases wealthy, but right outside their block of streets, it's ghetto af. Look at Indian Village in Detroit for example.

  • @zacharyfilion1437
    @zacharyfilion1437 Před 5 lety +187

    "Any other disputed territory" *Shows Quebec*

    • @KnuxMaster368
      @KnuxMaster368 Před 5 lety +2

      Zachary Filion
      Quebec denounces HAI for implying this

  • @chrislamb6609
    @chrislamb6609 Před 5 lety +1

    Google Maps has randomly decided that my city of 40,000 has another neighborhood inside of it, and has started labeling addresses with that new neighborhood, but completely left out the real one thats actually kinda well know.

  • @David-cx7cj
    @David-cx7cj Před 5 lety +1

    My neighborhood 'Aïre' in Switzerland is called 'Aire-la-Ville' (a town 10km away) by Google maps, this mistake finds gets then repeated by every online shopping site and people using maps for direction are often misdirected

  • @thetroyzernator
    @thetroyzernator Před 5 lety +51

    Same with my girlfriend's house. The name that Google gives the area refers to the farm the neighbourhood was built on. But it hasn't been a farm in nearly 80 years.

  • @AndrewTyberg
    @AndrewTyberg Před 5 lety +252

    Super unnatural sponsorship transition.

  • @Krissy_Bunnie
    @Krissy_Bunnie Před 5 lety

    When I was 12 we had a house fire, and the fire department came down the wrong street (Ardmore). My street is divided by two other intersecting main roads, into 3 different sections. The one I'm on is farthest north.
    After the fire, within a year they changed the divided street names to "W. Ardmore", "E. Ardmore" and just regular "Ardmore" in the middle. This is only noticeable on google maps or on official government documentation. None of the physical street signs changed, nor do most the residents even know about it.
    Unrelated, yes, but this video reminded me of that story.

  • @bridgetdolan4379
    @bridgetdolan4379 Před 5 lety

    Yo, you are the god at sponsor transitions I've been watching a bunch of your videos and you just slide right into the sponsor what a god.

  • @theraphman2.0
    @theraphman2.0 Před 5 lety +25

    “Or any other disputed territory”
    *shows Quebec*
    I’M DYING 😂😂

  • @FlyingFlame7
    @FlyingFlame7 Před 5 lety +27

    That transition to talking to quantum mechanics was just as confusing as quantum mechanics itself.

  • @levfurlannosan2134
    @levfurlannosan2134 Před 4 lety +2

    I was baffled when you showed my home town at 2:44 :D

  • @ralebeau
    @ralebeau Před 5 lety +3

    Back when people used paper maps, the makers would put in imaginary towns so they could see if other companies were ripping off their maps.

  • @dillonwilsonscott6681
    @dillonwilsonscott6681 Před 5 lety +164

    Yep, Wendover productions definitely lives in San Fransisco

    • @vinesauceobscurities
      @vinesauceobscurities Před 5 lety +13

      "Wendover Heights" in the thumbnail. I see what they did there.

    • @GrijzePilion
      @GrijzePilion Před 5 lety +1

      I've heard he currently lives in (or near) Amsterdam.

    • @0cujo0
      @0cujo0 Před 5 lety +6

      Isn’t Wendover Heights a San Franciscan Neighborhood? :-D

    • @mjmkevin
      @mjmkevin Před 5 lety +5

      At 4:15 I see a house icon in The Hague

    • @ilonnolan9259
      @ilonnolan9259 Před 5 lety

      mjmkevin looks more like a shopping mall symbol to me

  • @rea8585
    @rea8585 Před 5 lety +62

    I guess at 3:54 you thought "Eh, if Google can use weird sources then so can I!"

    • @saral9817
      @saral9817 Před 5 lety +1

      No......I didn't :p

    • @Komradvsky
      @Komradvsky Před 5 lety +1

      @@saral9817 he meant the guy who made the video.

  • @timmytubede
    @timmytubede Před 3 lety +4

    Wow, I guess I'm gonna be a little more skeptical of information from Google Maps in the future. In Germany, neighborhoods are indeed officially named and defined areas.
    But considering Google took over 5 years to fix an obvious bug in their public transport layer in the center of Berlin, Germany, I wouldn't be so sure about Google's attention to detail

  • @MLIOGJXNUYAT
    @MLIOGJXNUYAT Před 2 lety +1

    Fascinating. I thought this was going to be like the way old paper map publishers would place phantom towns on their maps, so if someone else's published map had them that would be proof of illegal copying.

  • @alexbarnes5011
    @alexbarnes5011 Před 5 lety +168

    Hope there’s planes in this one

    • @meevil24
      @meevil24 Před 5 lety +14

      Sadly, there weren't any planes

    • @HNT63
      @HNT63 Před 5 lety +3

      I guess there's nothing to see here then🙁🙁

    • @grangermontag1824
      @grangermontag1824 Před 5 lety +4

      Not even a Toyota Corolla

    • @gary4130
      @gary4130 Před 5 lety +1

      Without the Toyota Corollas, we cannot thrive as a species

  • @sinecurve9999
    @sinecurve9999 Před 5 lety +42

    That segue to Brilliant was strained af...

  • @goldndrago3491
    @goldndrago3491 Před 3 lety +3

    Some random person somehow made it so that it said on google maps that right on top of my house theres a _McDonlads_ , idk how it happened, it came complete with fake pictures too, luckily no one came expecting a Burger

  • @moontheraisin6444
    @moontheraisin6444 Před 3 lety +1

    Okay but like this guy is seriously good at those smooth transitions into sponsors
    Like
    Danggg

  • @musicman8345
    @musicman8345 Před 5 lety +29

    Or any other disputed territory.
    **Shows Quebec**
    lol

  • @MagnificentBirb
    @MagnificentBirb Před 5 lety +48

    New Zealand once again forgotten from the world

    • @somemanwhoateapuertoricanl7859
      @somemanwhoateapuertoricanl7859 Před 5 lety

      Magnificent Birb you mean a giant underwater volcano????

    • @MarloSoBalJr
      @MarloSoBalJr Před 5 lety +5

      Oh, you mean that massive rock blocking the tsunamis from reaching the Australian coast

    • @Friendship1nmillion
      @Friendship1nmillion Před 5 lety

      *AND* Australia.

    • @richardemms3050
      @richardemms3050 Před 5 lety +1

      All good, the fewer people that know about it the fewer that will visit. It can be a secret that a few know about.

  • @jasonmilne5741
    @jasonmilne5741 Před 5 lety +1

    Thanks for clearing that up about the Eye, I drove through the area to pick up a friend a so was very confused. I've been wondering if it was just made up by Google ever since.

  • @asusmctablet9180
    @asusmctablet9180 Před 3 lety +2

    Happened to my city too. Google invented neighborhood names that we in town never used, and now we get lectured by yuppies from Toronto who move here about what our neighborhoods are called. They never admit "I think this name exists only because I see it on Google Maps", and when we tell them they're full of it they call us Nazi white supremacist local yokels.

  • @guitarguy3378
    @guitarguy3378 Před 5 lety +33

    That transition to the brilliant sponsor though, brilliant

  • @gru7259
    @gru7259 Před 5 lety +123

    more like twice as interesting

  • @MC_aigorithm
    @MC_aigorithm Před 3 lety +1

    I would love if you did a follow up about the fuzzy differentiation between neighborhoods and subdivision names on Google Maps, especially in newer sunbelt cities where neighborhoods are less established and more of these types of subdivisions exist

  • @9600bauds
    @9600bauds Před 5 lety +2

    Our city has a neighborhood literally named "Nombre del Barrio" (Name of the Neighborhood) according to Google. They still haven't fixed it yet.

  • @koibubbles3302
    @koibubbles3302 Před 4 lety +5

    HAI: starts talking about quantum mechanics
    Me: I thought this video was about neighborhoods
    HAI: And brilliant is really good at-
    Me: oh that’s why

  • @TheAgamidaex
    @TheAgamidaex Před 5 lety +7

    I think you should credit the blogger who did the research in the description.
    That's just common courtesy.

  • @hamzaizourane
    @hamzaizourane Před 5 lety +1

    In the past years, users could log in to Google Map Maker and add neighborhood names and road names, some of these names have been added by users who have high powers and do not need approval, so do not be surprised when you see strange names when you use Google Maps in some countries.

  • @bakomusha
    @bakomusha Před 2 lety +1

    Around my home town a few make sense, but randomly a few years ago the entirety of French Valley got renamed Dutch Village. There was a "Dutch Village Giftshop" there when I was a kid, but it hasn't existed since the 90s, and no housing tracks are named after it. Since then random nonsense names have popped up everywhere, and it's confusing at best.

  • @soardev
    @soardev Před 3 lety +19

    The Schrödinger’s cat made me remember bunny girl senpai

    • @Rosie-fx1rp
      @Rosie-fx1rp Před 3 lety

      @Gigi Khumalo you're on the internet, just google it

    • @TheNicestPig
      @TheNicestPig Před 2 lety

      Ahhh, good show that was...

  • @christianlynch5507
    @christianlynch5507 Před 5 lety +3

    There are two main rivers near me, the Biloxi River and the Tchouttacabouffa River.
    Google Maps believes they're both called the Biloxi River

  • @sarangtambe3585
    @sarangtambe3585 Před 3 lety

    Loved the video! American and European cities are so beautifully planned!

  • @TriegaDN
    @TriegaDN Před 5 lety +2

    I lived a few blocks down from The Eye, I lived in Redford at the time, the Eye is basically on the edge of the city of Detroit, bordering Redford twp. That always confused me too, why that place is called the eye on google maps and I looked into it, it's interesting. I was actually hoping to see Detroit mentioned, and I've been pleasantly surprised.

  • @somniad
    @somniad Před 5 lety +12

    okay look. I know it's an advert and all, but Schrodinger's cat is an example devised specifically with the purpose of demonstrating why a particular interpretation (the Copenhagen interpretation) of quantum mechanics is incorrect. It is *not* an example meant to show how quantum mechanics works - it's exactly the opposite.

  • @robinsinhaxii-a3848
    @robinsinhaxii-a3848 Před 5 lety +4

    _That_ was my favorite ad transition

  • @adithyaramachandran7427
    @adithyaramachandran7427 Před 5 lety +1

    My parents house is very close to the boundary between 2 counties in new jersey, and Google maps used to think it's in the wrong county. Thankfully, that has been changed now.

  • @daanroelofs119
    @daanroelofs119 Před 5 lety

    That add transition was absolutely brilliant hehe

  • @PuzzlesExplained
    @PuzzlesExplained Před 5 lety +10

    lol the puns! "The benevolent dictator" 😂

  • @CandyCaneArms
    @CandyCaneArms Před 5 lety +7

    "Some say New Zealand, others say 'where?'"
    DAMN. You really had to do us like that? 😂

  • @redmatrix
    @redmatrix Před 2 lety

    Smooth transition to the sponsor, I barely realized it as I was working on something.

  • @Balthorium
    @Balthorium Před 5 lety +2

    The “cut” is a reference to the digging up of a street on Rincon Hill so horse and carriages could make it.

  • @MalcadorTheSigilite
    @MalcadorTheSigilite Před 5 lety +21

    How the hell do you find all these Weird obscure topics?

    • @damirock98
      @damirock98 Před 5 lety +1

      Deep web of course

    • @sharnistevens1428
      @sharnistevens1428 Před 5 lety

      Naimad The wikipedia list! TWL :)

    • @MalcadorTheSigilite
      @MalcadorTheSigilite Před 5 lety +1

      @@sharnistevens1428 Oh right Forgot about it haha Thanks

    • @hkr667
      @hkr667 Před 5 lety

      Not sure but a big news paper in my random West European country released the same story 2 days ago. It had the exact same example (the east cut) as well. Maybe there are some 'weird stories most media channels won't cover' mailing lists out there.

  • @garrickwally8820
    @garrickwally8820 Před 5 lety +3

    That message to google at 0:38 is hilarious!!!!

  • @thomascampione8866
    @thomascampione8866 Před 3 lety

    That was such a good transition into the ad

  • @e.hhampsen4508
    @e.hhampsen4508 Před 4 lety

    I was like...charting my childhood town online bc I was bored, and I found a couple businesses that clearly didn't exist! Glad to see this video

  • @ClassicsFroms-sq7zk
    @ClassicsFroms-sq7zk Před 5 lety +4

    If Apple made a map application it should be called Mapple without a doubt.

  • @Theo-lo1yc
    @Theo-lo1yc Před 3 lety +3

    As someone who was born in San Francisco I have no clue what a republican is. Is that like a type of avocado?

  • @prestondenglish
    @prestondenglish Před 5 lety

    Yes! This! I was driving down telegraph and snapped a pic this March. Even growing up there, I never heard of that name for the area. Technically I grew up between Joy and West Chicago.... and I thought that name referee to the eye-shaped bridge Detroit built for the super bowl früher down telegraph

  • @dcassus
    @dcassus Před 3 lety +2

    Some years ago, people noticed Google Maps used to put more emphasis on the favelas (slums) of Rio de Janeiro than on official neighborhoods (which are, in fact, legally defined by a decree that gets constantly updated as the city grows). Of course Google was using other sources than this decree (in which maybe one or two favelas actually got upgraded to being official neighborhoods). And the mayor was even more upset because some favelas got more attention as you zoomed out than the official neighborhoods. Even favelas no one had ever heard of were listed on Google Maps, despite being just a small group of less than 10 houses. Google being Google quickly changed their view (at least for people in Brazil), so the city authorities called down. I wonder if they checked now years later using a VPN.

  • @DutchAver
    @DutchAver Před 5 lety +3

    4:16 Hello from the Netherlands! And from the Hague as well. Got me an eyebrow raise to see the city I live in suddenly among there ;)

  • @betovega91cr91
    @betovega91cr91 Před 5 lety +19

    The Cañas-Jerez Treaty was signed between the Plenipotentiary Minister Máximo Jerez Tellería (from Nicaragua) and the General José María Cañas Escamilla (from Costa Rica) in 1858. What the Nicaraguan government did back in 2010 was pure negligence and an ill intended violation of Costa Rican sovereignty. It also provoked environmental damage to an ecological protected area.

    • @legguchan
      @legguchan Před 5 lety +1

      It was Ortega's fault
      And I'm Costa Rican
      Ortega actually forgot about the Cañas-Jerez Treaty and he said that was actual Nicaraguan territory while it isn't

  • @Knightmessenger
    @Knightmessenger Před 2 lety +1

    As an uber driver in the Detroit area, I've tried to learn the name of every neighborhood I visit. I've noticed The Eye on Google Maps before but had no idea of the origin. It's right next to the much better known name Five Points neighborhood which I believe is the furthest you can be from the center of Detroit while still being in Detroit.

  • @Wireddred
    @Wireddred Před 4 lety +1

    Wow smooth ad slip at the end I’m so stoned I didn’t even realise you changed from the vid to the sub drop

  • @robinsinhaxii-a3848
    @robinsinhaxii-a3848 Před 5 lety +3

    4:24 lmao that is so right

  • @rhinoknife
    @rhinoknife Před 4 lety +17

    You’re pronouncing Machias incorrectly. It’s pronounced “ma-chy-is”

    • @NYpaddler
      @NYpaddler Před 3 lety +2

      Google would offer the correct pronunciation very easily. Kind of ironic, isn't it?

  • @RichardCox0
    @RichardCox0 Před 5 lety

    fuck me the transition between video and sponsor at the end was so seamless that i just watched all of it without realizing

  • @Slenderquil
    @Slenderquil Před 3 lety +1

    I live in a neighborhood that's known as a lane, yet google calls it a drive. This has caused some packages meant for me to disappear

  • @DanielSmith-cg1mi
    @DanielSmith-cg1mi Před 3 lety +3

    The aforementioned island is pronounced “ma-CHAI-as” like the nearby Maine town.

  • @deanbeckerley5530
    @deanbeckerley5530 Před 5 lety +4

    the point of the cat is that you don't know if its dead or alive, so you assume its both until you measure it. its the Copenhagen interpretation of Werner Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. there were many interpretations of that principle, including the many worlds theory, which is pretty cool.

  • @praticm2846
    @praticm2846 Před 3 lety +2

    0:48 Nobody:
    My mind:Feel proud that you're 1 among the 2.5 billion smartphone users
    Me:Dude are you for real 🙄

  • @wizardkoer782
    @wizardkoer782 Před 5 lety

    I saw that quantum joke coming lol with your sponsor always being Brilliant lol

  • @aaronworsnop
    @aaronworsnop Před 5 lety +8

    That’s Brilliant!
    See what I did there?

    • @lilmak5806
      @lilmak5806 Před 5 lety

      I see what you did

    • @neria1372
      @neria1372 Před 5 lety +1

      Unfortunately that joke isn't as brilliant as you think it is. But nice try.

  • @aaronworsnop
    @aaronworsnop Před 5 lety +278

    Some say New Zealand others say where, 😂 lol
    Like if you’re from NZ

  • @lawrencecalablaster568

    I’m glad someone else noticed this; I’ve been spotting this on maps near me lately.

  • @Klockorino
    @Klockorino Před 5 lety

    your sponsor segues are entertaining. as soon as you mentioned quantum mechanics on a map videoi knew something was up

  • @hallowizer440
    @hallowizer440 Před 3 lety +7

    "Google is amazing and lovely"
    I'm sorry, but I thought this channel wasn't supposed to lie.

  • @elisassoon5791
    @elisassoon5791 Před 5 lety +3

    to try and read that super fast thing about google not banning the channel, you take the speed down to 0.25 and sam just sounds constipated.

  • @emmat5319
    @emmat5319 Před 5 lety

    that was the slickest content-to-ad intro ever.

  • @PrismTheKiwii
    @PrismTheKiwii Před 3 lety +1

    That ad transition tho be smooth af didn't see that one coming.