It does the same crap to me! Everytime I input my address "XXXX E Pine st, Seattle WA" it always has to ask,

"Did you mean XXXX E Pine st, or XXXX Pine st E ?"

GODDAMMIT GOOGLE! I MEANT WHAT I SAID!

WTF is Pine St E, anyway?

I can't help but notice that they misspell Wedgwood. I think I've even reported it several times.

As the link suggests, accuracy issues in Google Maps are usually the fault of the data provider. Whether they are hiring these people to find errors and kick them up to the provider, I don't know.

The same data providers drive a lot of GPS units. When I tell my car to take me home, it announces that I've arrived basically a full block south of where my door is. It's usually pretty unsure about where exactly on the block something is, but I'm surprised when it actually reports the location as being on the next block.

My street address is 400, which it probably assumes is on the corner, so I guess in this case I could attribute the error to my GPS not being calibrated correctly. Maybe it's designed to give some X feet worth of warning, because I've noticed it report early when coming up to things from the other direction as well.

Nintendo's also opening their new office, but that's in the boonies.

Why would you put an army of temp employees in Kirkland when there are record vacancy rates for office space in downtown Seattle?

Does anyone know what the mayor's office is doing about this?

So you use GPS to find your way around town? SUCKERS!

Might I suggest an amazing tool called a "map" AKA "a street map"? It's quite ingenious, you can see the whole city street layout all at once. No shit You can draw lines on it to mark your route. You can draw circles and arrows on your destinations! You can write telephone numbers and addresses right on top of the locations! It's a fucking miracle.

I saw a google employee (Google shirt, Google backpack, Nexus One, and DSLR rig) wandering around 15th Ave E a couple weeks ago, taking pictures of the inside of commercial establishments.

#6 find my way in/out of some location I've never been to, yes. It gives turn by turn instructions, but usually I just pull up the address and review the route before I even take the car out of park. I can see the whole city/route at once on my GPS. It's like a 6" touchscreen LCD. It draws lines for me. It also draws a circle for me, not that I really give a fuck. If the destination is in my address book, I can see the address and phone number by hitting one button. Not that I really care once it's in the unit. If it's not in the address book, I can still see just the address by hitting one button.

I know that maps print periodic street numbers on the streets, but it's still a pain to find something without a cross street. When you're in your house and you want directions, you're telling me you reach for your paper map instead of just going to Google Maps?

Not to mention driving while trying to read a paper map is just fucking distracting and dangerous.