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Google's San Francisco office is in "East Cut". The idea of divorcing "Google" from "Locals" is utterly ridiculous in our neighbourhood. This is one of the few places I'd expect Maps to actually be up-to-date with changes on the ground.

San Francisco says it's a liberal city of immigrants, but unless you're born here and have lived here all your life somehow you're part of the evil "other" that is ruining the city and changing the names of neighborhoods.

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Google has an office in Kirkland, where I live, and I understand some folks work on Google Maps. The data in and around Kirkland is not great. I realized that people that live and work in Kirkland would probably have no reason to discover how bad the directions are - who would dogfood driving directions to the local office?

For years, several dozen points of interest in downtown Seattle were transposed into downtown Kirkland. It totally broke routing - if you tried to map a bus route from Kirkland to the Seattle Federal Building, it would give you a route that dumped you in a residential neighborhood in Kirkland.

I live in neighborhood that was annexed by the City of Kirkland in 2011. 7 years later, Google's geo data still can't decide if it's part of Kirkland, part of Woodinville, or its own city altogether. Twitter identifies the neighborhood as its own city, which it never was, and definitely is not today.

I used to live in Kingsgate. There is a section of 124th that runs parallel to 124th. It breaks Google maps :)

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