Christian Woolmar's item (previous post) tells how a whole layer of mapping information is missing from the internet - at least the mighty Google's seemingly ever expanding chunk of it. With so much out there, it's amazing how often the information is wrong or missing.
I saw one web site (for a place to stay) which gave no contact details and whose maps did not have street names, let alone station names. Comparing these maps side by side with Google's / Multimap's I worked out the streetname I thought the place would be in. Searching the Google map for the place turned up a related building nearby, and yell.com and BT's online phone book didn't yield it up.
We've all heard the tales of SatNav taking people to the wromg place (or a place of the same name but not where they want to go) and it seems in mant cases whoever was following the SatNav wasn't applying common sense - something which computers will never fully replace, I imagine, ebven though people increasingly assume they are infallible.
The fact that internet based information is detailed and comprehensive does not make it accurate / correct.
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