[aimor]

Google screwed up my address by deciding that "E" should be spelled out "East". The county uses "E", the street sign says "E", Bing says "E" (not that they're any authority on the matter), but Google says "East" and now Walmart won't deliver things to my actual address.

I don't know a lot about systems/processes/protocol and the correct jargon, but my sense is that the problem isn't just technical. They could support ' just as well as E. But the scale of these automated systems chokes on these little quirks and they get amplified a huge amount and quickly become big problems.

[stevekemp]

I live in Finland, which has two official languages - Finnish & Swedish.

Google maps, on Android, decided that all street names are only Swedish when giving directions, and doesn't show Finnish names at all. Even though on the map you can see both.

Sucks, especially as I'm a foreigner.

[skirmish]

Just today I was driving around UCLA on "Charles E Young Dr E", which Android Auto insisted on calling "Charles East Young Drive East". It was hilarious, the first "E" apparently stands for "Edward".

[thebruce87m]

When Alexa devices first appeared, when you asked for songs by Dick Van Dyke it would beep out his first name when repeating it.

[realusername]

You have the same thing in Kigali, Rwanda. Most of the street names are just KG for Kigali followed by the street number. Google just insists that all of those are kilograms...

[evanb]

DC is divided into 4 quadrants, and to lift degeneracies they come after street/avenue/road/place etc in an address. So many GPS pronounce 815 V St NW as "eight-fifteeen V saint northwest" instead of "... street ...". Makes me laugh every time.

[paradox460]

Utah gets particularly funny with the coordinate grids used out here. I've heard everything from one thousand three hundred and fifty five east two thousand south to literal readouts of the digits

[bionhoward]

They’re mutating data, that’s a skill issue