For the longest time I’ve stopped using Google Maps. This is because Microsoft’s Live Search Maps has much better coverage of the GTA and is more accurate.
For instance, their Bird’s Eye view i find is much more useful than Google’s Street View and Street View is not available in Canada.
As well, the maps in Live are more up to date. At the corner of Bay and Yorkville, the old Mr. Sub building is still standing in Google Maps, while Live Maps shows the new Four Season’s Hotel/Condo Showroom. Live’s maps are in much higher resolution, as shown below:
Update: Twice this week I’ve looked up addresses on Google Maps only to find out that the location was WRONG. I find this really bad and worse is that there’s no easy way to tell them to make a correction on their site.
This Starbucks is at Yonge/Bloor, but Google Maps puts it way up in Rosedale, almost a full km away from it’s actual location.
When I went to Audi Mississauga, it placed the marker way in the middle of a neighborhood instead of on the side of Mavis where it is really located:
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