{"id":22415,"date":"2018-08-09T16:37:34","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T20:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=22415"},"modified":"2018-08-09T16:39:01","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T20:39:01","slug":"google-maps-influence-on-neighbourhood-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/09\/google-maps-influence-on-neighbourhood-names\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps’ Influence on Neighbourhood Names"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jack Nicas<\/a>:<\/p>\n

For decades, the district south of downtown and alongside San Francisco Bay here was known as either Rincon Hill, South Beach or South of Market. This spring, it was suddenly rebranded on Google Maps to a name few had heard: the East Cut.<\/p>

The peculiar moniker immediately spread digitally, from hotel sites<\/a> to dating apps to Uber, which all use Google’s map data. The name soon spilled over into the physical world, too. Real-estate listings<\/a> beckoned prospective tenants to the East Cut. And news organizations<\/a> referred to the vicinity by that term.<\/p>

[…]<\/p>

Yet how Google arrives at its names in maps is often mysterious. The company declined to detail how some place names came about, though some appear to have resulted from mistakes by researchers, rebrandings by real estate agents — or just outright fiction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Via Nick Heer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Even the area I grew up in, West Hillhurst, is called Upper Hillhurst in Google Maps, which is just north of Westmount, another neighbourhood that doesn’t exist.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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