What it comes maps, trust is everything. If you’re uncertain about what a map tells you then it’s pretty close to useless.
Gizmodo has an interesting story of how tourism and residents clash underneath the Hollywood sign in Los Angeles with the resultant changes to Google Maps and Garmin GPS systems.
It’s surprising that Google, Garmin and other mapping services have agreed to create misleading maps as this devalues the trust in their services.
That’s their business choice though, although in the long term this going to deeply hurt trust in their maps.