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Something got me in the mood so I first searched for my old house in Philadelphia (lived there for three years starting fifty years ago), which I am not sure I found because Google Maps is not sure either. It showed mwe a house that looks right but hemmed and hawed about the address, finally deciding that it was this other address altogether. So I took the street view tour of the neighborhood, and I'm almost certain of it, but there's all these pretty things that weren't there when I lived there, so I am not sure.
Then came the hilarity.I decided I would take a look-see at my old elementary school, Powellton School. I didn't see it on the map where it should have been, so I asked Google Maps to search it for me. Apparently it has been decommissioned, but Google Maps did not tell me that. Nope. It told me I was a stupidhead and I didn't know what I wanted, so here, have a random school in a different neighborhood instead.
Whatever happened to "we can't find that on our map?"
Also, "Your search engine is snotty and overconfident" is not one of the categories of "report a problem" available. I ended up choosing "report a problem with the map" even though the problem was not with the map, and filling the box with a closer description of the actual problem.
Ah . . . regular Google corrects me. My school was not Powelton, that was the neighborhood. The school exists: it is called Samuel Powel, and it is now a primary school (I went there for sixth grade). Also, the school claims that it is "in the heart of University City," but in my day University City was many blocks away. But I knew that the University was gobbling up as much of west Philadelphia as it could.
It looks a lot the same, though it seems to have acquired some nifty mosaic murals.
Then came the hilarity.I decided I would take a look-see at my old elementary school, Powellton School. I didn't see it on the map where it should have been, so I asked Google Maps to search it for me. Apparently it has been decommissioned, but Google Maps did not tell me that. Nope. It told me I was a stupidhead and I didn't know what I wanted, so here, have a random school in a different neighborhood instead.
Whatever happened to "we can't find that on our map?"
Also, "Your search engine is snotty and overconfident" is not one of the categories of "report a problem" available. I ended up choosing "report a problem with the map" even though the problem was not with the map, and filling the box with a closer description of the actual problem.
Ah . . . regular Google corrects me. My school was not Powelton, that was the neighborhood. The school exists: it is called Samuel Powel, and it is now a primary school (I went there for sixth grade). Also, the school claims that it is "in the heart of University City," but in my day University City was many blocks away. But I knew that the University was gobbling up as much of west Philadelphia as it could.
It looks a lot the same, though it seems to have acquired some nifty mosaic murals.
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