Dan Luu\u2019s Twitter thread<\/a> on Google Maps (and other map providers\u2019) errors, their persistence, and the trouble it can sometimes take to get them dealt with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Map data is not perfect and users are too trusting. 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