Comments on: Yahoo Maps can't spell

Yahoo Maps misspells Haight Ashbury

[themortalgod]

Sigh...

i almost laughed when i saw this in the feed, how many millions of things are labeled in the yahoo map database, somebody finds one typo and it makes the CNET main feed as a headline hahahahaha, people make mistakes, such is life...

[kevin-p]

Google Maps can't spell either

Google Maps thinks there is a body of water in Brooklyn called Sheepheads Bay. Bzzzt! It's Sheepshead Bay.

[pcbear]

?

Nothing else to write about huh?

ZZZ

[ahoier]

don't blame yahoo, yet.

It's all about "DRM" err....huh? Yes...lol. Non-Digital Rights Management...

I heard of it years ago from my English and Geography teacher(s), I think Digital Life TV mentioned it too once or twice on their 'cast(s)...

Yahoo! gets their mapping data from some other "mapping" company. That "mapping company" whoever it may be, created this typo in their database, so they can track down copyright infringements...

Say, if another competitor-mapping company came around, maybe released an atlas or something, with that same typo....the company could be in trouble :)

I heard dictionaries have this stuff to, "fake" words that aren't even real.....but who really reads a dictionary from front to back? We never know where these "fakes" are...


Just a possibility ;)

[wylbur]

Like Trivial Pursuit

That is a very reasonable explanation. That is also the reason why
you find some glaring errors in Trivial Pursuit-- something the
publishers have used to find infringers. As unlikely as it seems,
people have republished the infamous "moops" answer highlighted
in Seinfeld's Bubble Boy episode and gotten caught.

[ckon3]

it's spelled "V E N D O R"

Yahoo maps uses a mapping data vendor, just like every other map site (Google and Yahoo use the same one, Navteq, just different versions). You know, picking on Yahoo isn't even sport any more, it's just journalistic bullying. You forgot to mention, by the way that some brain surgeon at CNET's ZDNet subsidiary just wrote a column suggesting that Yahoo should buy Orkut... which is owned by Google? Can't blame that on a vendor, that's just bad journalism.