I actually live in Malta but travel to the UK very often. This morning I asked Google maps the best way to get from Hounslow East tube station to Kings Cross St Pancras tube - the Picadilly Line goes directly there!! Google told me to use anything but The Picadilly line!! Why?
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For your question, can you please be specific on what really you are talking about, I guess you are talking about route or a road Google map has suggested for you to use while you were not looking to use that road or route, can you conform if I am correct?
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Hi Raphael, nice to see you are from South Africa, I visit Cape Town most years. I am a retired IT Consultant (so I should find my way around web pages) but I find this website impossibly difficult to follow.
First of all, all I wanted to do was to point out to Google maps that their idea of how to get from Hounslow East to King’s Cross is totally wrong - I used to live in London so I already knew that the easy way was to use the Picadilly Line tube train which is a direct connection. Instead Google maps told me to use two underground trains and a bus!!!
But how can one tell Google to get it right?
Very difficult, is there a simple link to somewhere where I can point out the error? No. Can I email someone?? No.
Instead I have to join the community and make a post!
Forgive me but if Google want people to ‘help’ others by pointing out errors then it has to be simple otherwise people will not bother.
If there is a place missing, a road missing or a business missing then it’s fairly easy to point this out but if you want to advise that Directions are wrong then it’s not (as I understand it).
So, forgive me once again, but I think I won’t ever bother again to try to advise Google that they have made a mistake, it really isn’t worth the effort.