{"id":487,"date":"2008-11-18T12:27:25","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T12:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/?p=487"},"modified":"2009-03-30T12:54:07","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T12:54:07","slug":"haydon-bridge-bypass-complete-according-to-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/18\/haydon-bridge-bypass-complete-according-to-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Haydon Bridge Bypass Complete (according to Google)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Haydon Bridge is the last remaining village on the A69 to be bypassed and while <a href=\"http:\/\/www.highways.gov.uk\/roads\/projects\/5222.aspx\">construction is still underway<\/a> with a completion date of Spring 2009, Google maps appears to have jumped the gun and seems to think it has been completed:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ie=UTF8&amp;hl=en&amp;t=h&amp;s=AARTsJpnOA3ioEtcI9rx_v7gyZqlolGTYw&amp;ll=54.973082,-2.250309&amp;spn=0.023646,0.054932&amp;z=14&amp;output=embed\"><\/iframe><br \/><small><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ie=UTF8&amp;hl=en&amp;t=h&amp;ll=54.973082,-2.250309&amp;spn=0.023646,0.054932&amp;z=14&amp;source=embed\" style=\"color:#0000FF;text-align:left\">View Larger Map<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<h3>Update<\/h3>\n<p>I have just updated the maps on my TomTom and the new bypass is also shown on here:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/haydonbridgebypasstomtom.jpg\" alt=\"Haydon Bridge Bypass on TomTom\" title=\"haydonbridgebypasstomtom\" \/><\/div>\n<p>This is not surprising as both Google and TomTom take their map data from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teleatlas.com\/index.htm\">Tele-Atlas<\/a>, who would appear to be the ones jumping the gun here.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, TomTom&#8217;s map update service proudly claims &#8220;<a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/tomtommapupdate.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\" title=\"Tom Tom takes it's claim of 'Tomorrow's maps today' a little too literally\">Tomorrow&#8217;s maps today<\/a>&#8220;. I didn&#8217;t realise they meant literally.<\/p>\n<h3>Further Update (24 Nov)<\/h3>\n<p>A representative from The Highways Agency has today confirmed that they were unaware of Google and TomTom showing the bypass as open. They also noted that Google maps has given the old road the number B6319 (as have TomTom) which has yet to be confirmed.<\/p>\n<h3>Update (27 Mar 09)<\/h3>\n<p>I drove along the A69 today and the bypass is now open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haydon Bridge is the last remaining village on the A69 to be bypassed and while construction is still underway with a completion date of Spring 2009, Google maps appears to have jumped the gun and seems to think it has been completed: View Larger Map Update I have just updated the maps on my TomTom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[72,73,14,13,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}