Tag: google-maps

  • Who wants a street named after them?

    I sometimes wonder what’s in a name – if names are powerful, they get a street, pond, road or an entire flyover, depending on how impressive you were either alive or dead. I have been staying in Noida for the last thirty years however none of the roads or streets bear my name. Some people…

  • Map confusions – because journeys are important

    If someone has been following the Map Wars, apologies, the map confusions off late, they would realize that these are interesting times we are living in. For at least two decades we have been using Google Maps, invariably it lets the traveler reach their desired destination with an error estimate of a very, very lesser…