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The data pipelines for maps can be very long - certain changes might take 6 months or more to be applied, because the computation required to rebuild certain things is massive, and it isn't worth doing simply because some street edge moved by a few centimeters.



This wasn't a few centimeters - I had trouble finding the park because Google had it a couple of blocks away from its actual location.




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