Google Maps Quirk - McIrritating!

[CHR]

I shot a quick email over to Mike Blumenthal and he wrote an article about the bug in Google Maps which occurs if a business name has two capital letters in it. The issue was brought to my attention by Clay, whose shop displays as mcadams, not McAdams, in G Maps. Turns out the bug affects many business listings - including McDonald's.

Google Maps + MickyD’s =s McIrritating

Google Maps Local Business Center has a few quirks.


One of those is how it handles names with two capital letters. Businesses sometimes spend millions projecting their names and are meticulous about how they appear in any media. It must be discouraging to firms like McAdams Floral in Victoria, TX and McDonald’s that Google Maps does not properly handle their names.


Cathy Rhulloda, of Avante Garden Florals Unique, pointed out this particular quirk and the attendant posts in the forums that is has generated. If a business name has too many caps, the listing will be flagged and put in the queue for a content check. If however it only has one or two caps in unexpected places, like the middle of the word, it will just change the business name to all lower case.


The alternatives are to accept the lower case auto change or to separate the name into two parts. Irish names have this attribute and a certain number of high tech firms do as well. Some of the posts indicated that the problem has been fixed but but it appears that the “feature” is still afflicting some users.

Let's hope the G Maps team feels a little heat from the post and fix the bug so your company name will display correctly.


Know of other persistent bugs in G Maps listings? Post 'em here and someone will take a look. You can also search the G Maps forum to read if others have the similar issues.

 

[Flowerchatter03]

Google maps has our location wrong. If you try to street level our shop, it points to an empty lot. Every business within our vincinity, has the wrong street address number. How do you fix this problem?