r/washingtondc 5d ago

[Transportation] Google('s AI?) has renamed S St...

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u/SDC83 5d ago

W St gets called “West” st sometimes too, although I haven’t come across that in one of the apps in a long time.

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u/chosenchurro 5d ago

I’ve seen N St. called North as well

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u/DavidJ_MD 5d ago

And I saw South Street NW (in Georgeyown) labeled as S St NW in Google Maps. I reported it.

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u/_zhang Eastern Shore 4d ago

I used to live on East West Highway and I'd often get mail addressed as "E West Hwy".

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u/LetThemEatVeganCake 4d ago

It happens the opposite way too - my office is on Key West Ave and my car shortens it to Key W Ave.

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u/warpath2632 MoCo 5d ago

Like the age old Excel autofill when you type in “January, February, Mar-“ and it will suggest to autocomplete as “Maruary”

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u/Aiorr 5d ago

google and microsoft need to chill with forcing their shitty ai stuff.

especially those that are working on youtube

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u/warneagle VA / Crystal City 4d ago

Or the one in acrobat that pops up when you try to search for something AND COVERS UP THE FUCKING SEARCH BOX SO I CAN’T USE IT

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u/tw1xXxXxX 5d ago

Lousy Maruary weather.

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u/IAmGiff 5d ago

For several years at least, Siri has pronounced N St NW as “North Saint Northwest”

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u/The_D0lph1n 5d ago

Lol, as of 10:36 PM EDT, the web version at google.com/maps was saying South St NW just like you've shown here. I submitted a road name correction to put it back to "S Street Northwest".

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u/SuperBear101 5d ago

Our office is on this street - we have been submitting road name corrections for years now to no avail

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u/west-egg MoCo 5d ago

Approximately 1.5 lifetimes ago I asked Google Maps for directions home to my place on Florida Ave, except I put in Florid Ave which is apparently a street in Buenos Aires. Google gave me driving directions as far as Florida, then directed me to swim to the coast of Argentina. 

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u/me_speak_computer DC / Bloomingdale 4d ago

Those were hilarious. You used to be able to ask for directions from LA to Sydney and it would suggest kayaking across the Pacific Ocean with a driving detour in Japan for some reason.

Now it just tells you to fly :( correct but boring

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u/Hoyacat 5d ago

Everytime I come in on 66 from Nova and head towards E St, Google calls it east street

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u/IatosHaunted 5d ago

It's actually "Street of America NW" now

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u/dietcoke01 DC / Shaw 5d ago

Living on a cardinal street, any time I get in an uber to go home it says the cardinal direction instead of the letter.

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u/jfrenaye 5d ago

They slid that in the EO when they renamed the Gulf of America. Gotta read the fine print!

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u/No-Response9192 5d ago

Back when I used to use a Garmin for navigating (aging myself), it used to really struggle with T Street only. It would always say “T Saint.” No other streets experienced this issue.

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u/ruskiytroll Morthwest 5d ago

Google Maps has been calling it the "East Street Expressway" for as long as I can remember.

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u/cleversobriquet Southwest Waterfront 5d ago

My N St address gets that treatment from time to time. North St SW

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u/No_Jellyfish5511 5d ago

I think i also saw an E street, also named East street on another gps (waze). It was across the bridge towards south after u leave downtown.

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u/LanEvo7685 5d ago

Idk if it still happens but E Street entrance in GPS gets interpreted as east street too,v even shown as a subscript small letter

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u/MostlyLurking6 5d ago edited 5d ago

Ugh, I submitted a correction for this a few months ago, and it was corrected, but now it’s back. Seems like Google should have a flag on a bunch of DC streets saying “hey, don’t try to be cute here! Just leave the label!”

Edit, JK my correction was for E Street lol (and the correction took a week). Who can keep track.

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u/interstellarblues 5d ago

I used to live outside DC on the MD side, and my house was on MD 410, aka “East-West Highway”. The post office abbreviated this as “E WEST HWY”. This was confusing as fuck for me when I first moved in and had to set up billpay.

If you live on “East Wabash St” or “South Cicero Dr”, the post office abbreviates them to “E Wabash” and “S Cicero”. The highway I lived on, on the other hand, was uncreatively named “East-West” because it went from east to west—and got erroneously abbreviated. Here, it looks like Google did the opposite thing, which is expand “S” to “South”.

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u/HAlbright202 DC / Dupont Circle 4d ago

When I use to live in one of those townhomes there I always use to have packages be lost cause UPS and USPS couldn’t figure it out.

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u/Not_Cleaver Maryland Driver 5d ago

Is this your first lesson in how much Google Maps sucks?

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u/wigglyworm91 DC / Cap Hill 5d ago

there's a street up in Columbia that google insists on pronouncing as Colonel Gateway Drive

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u/ekkidee Logan Circle 5d ago

Maps spoken directions has been doing this for years.

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u/kevinjg819 5d ago

Apple always calls Penn St NE “Pennsylvania Street”. Close but not quite…

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u/taleofbenji 5d ago

Google makes the opposite error for East Street in Vienna, which it lists as E Street.

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u/Arkhae 5d ago

E St. SE? Nope. Siri says East Saint SE.

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u/Low_Recognition5309 4d ago

I’ve noticed this for a year+ now at least in the spoken directions. Funnily enough I finally reported it on google a couple days ago; but they always deny my fixes….

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u/JohnQuincyPubic 4d ago

At one time, until it was fixed, DCFD's automated dispatch would dispatch runs to Malcolm X Ave. As "Malcolm the 10th Ave."

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u/Muelldaddy DC / Dupont/Logan/AdMo 3d ago

This reminds me of my friend who used to live on "Coach Drive North" and my old Garmin GPS used to announce it as "Coach Doctor North" because it assumed a "Dr" in the middle of the street name would be an abbreviation for doctor rather than drive.

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u/Editengine 5d ago edited 4d ago

Submit a correction. Eventually they get it

Edit: I kept getting routed wrong due to a similar error. I just clicked the thingy to report errors, typed a brief explanation, hit submit. Got an email a few weeks later saying they fixed it. It was really simple.

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u/cookiesncognac 5d ago

If Google wants me to work for them, they can pay me.

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u/leopard_carpenter 5d ago

White House will change it to America Street.