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Something is, indeed, terribly terribly wrong in Google Maps algorithm land. For at least the last couple of weeks, Google Maps has been insisting that Basingstoke in England is called "Town Centre", and is one of the most important places in England. On a view of the entire country, it's displaying a label in the same font-size it uses for Southampton, Bristol and Liverpool marking Basingstoke as "Town Centre". Manchester and Birmingham aren't labelled at all. If this is the quality of mapping Google is providing for a major first-world English-speaking market - you should be grateful it even knows Nigeria exists.



Basingstoke one of the most important places in England? pull the other one


He was referring to "Town Centre".


Google Maps seems to think so.




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