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Ghost road

Posted by Dalkvist on 7 January 2009 in English.

I found a road on google maps to day that I didn't know that it existed, in fact it don't exist, its half of one road that is renamed, so I found a easter egg on goggle mas (tele atlas), search for "karlsrovägen, gävle" on google maps to find it, karlsrovägen is the imaginary one, and utvindsvägen the real one.

What is more interesting is what I found when I tried to confirm that it was a easter egg, I could not find my images from that survey, so I checked the local municipalities web map that gets its data directly from there gis data.
And there search could not find the road at all, the reason for this turns out to be that no property has its official address on that road, and the municipalities search only search the property database.

What really surprised me, is when I pointed out this to them, I got a answer in a few of hours, in where they say that its a know limitation and that they have a manual routine to deal with it, and this particular address will be searchable with the next data update, in a week or so.

Swedish post on http://dalkvist.se/openstreetmap/vagar-och-webbkartor/

Location: Hemsta, Gävle, Gävle kommun, Gävleborg County, 800 06, Sweden