Editing Google Maps (section)

=== Incorrect location naming ===
There are cases where Google Maps had added out-of-date neighborhood monikers. Thus, in Los Angeles, the name "Brooklyn Heights" was revived from its 1870s usage<ref name="Martin-2018">{{cite news |url=https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/google-maps-brooklyn-heights/ |title=Why Is Google Maps Using a 19th Century Name for an L.A. Neighborhood? |work=[[Los Angeles (magazine)|Los Angeles]] |first=Brittany |last=Martin |date=September 12, 2018 |access-date=January 26, 2023 |archive-date=January 26, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230126171747/https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/google-maps-brooklyn-heights/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and "Silver Lake Heights" from its 1920s usage,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://laist.com/news/google-maps-is-confusing-angelenos |title=Google Maps' Phantom Neighborhoods Are Confusing Southern Californians. Help Us Keep Track Of Them |author-first1=Ryan|author-last1=Fonseca|website=LAist|date=September 12, 2018 |access-date=January 26, 2023 |archive-date=January 26, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230126173557/https://laist.com/news/google-maps-is-confusing-angelenos |url-status=live }}</ref> or mistakenly relabeled areas (in Detroit, the neighborhood "Fiskhorn" became "Fishkorn").<ref name="Nicas-2018">{{cite news |author=Nicas |first=Jack |date=August 2, 2018 |title=As Google Maps Renames Neighborhoods, Residents Fume |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/02/technology/google-maps-neighborhood-names.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230131031017/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/02/technology/google-maps-neighborhood-names.html |archive-date=January 31, 2023 |access-date=January 24, 2023 |newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref> Because many companies utilize Google Maps data, these previously obscure or incorrect names then gain traction; the names are often used by [[Real estate agent|realtors]], hotels, [[food delivery]] sites, [[Online dating service|dating sites]], and [[News media|news organizations]].

Google has said it created its maps from third-party data, public sources, satellites, and users, but many names used have not been connected to any official record.<ref name="Martin-2018" /><ref name="Nicas-2018" /> According to a former Google Maps employee (who was not authorized to speak publicly), users can submit changes to Google Maps, but some submissions are ruled upon by people with little local knowledge of a place, such as contractors in India. Critics maintain that names likes "BoCoCa" (for the area in Brooklyn between Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens), are "just plain puzzling" or simply made up.<ref name="Nicas-2018" /> Some names used by Google have been traced to non-professionally made maps with typographical errors that survived on Google Maps.<ref name="Nicas-2018" />