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“Out of interest we jumped on Google Maps to check and sure enough right over Gosport were the words ‘London Heathrow Airport’.” He said: “A couple of us tried the same and confirmed the issue wasn’t isolated to his phone. The Uber app uses Google Maps for its systems.Īdam Parks-Dare, who works in Gosport near Portsmouth, told the Telegraph that one of his colleagues was looking at the cost of booking a cab to Heathrow, when the cost came back at just £7.25, £120 cheaper than the usual cost. The issue also hit Uber users looking to travel to the airport, with some receiving much lower fares than expected. It is unclear as to whether the mistake was down to a glitch or the Heathrow location had been manually moved. I feel sorry for any foreign travellers relying on Google Maps to make their flight on timeĪnother social media user wrote: “Tell me I’m not the only one getting a location for Heathrow at least 95 miles (sic) from where the actual airport is.” One Twitter user wrote: “Why has Google Maps changed the location of Heathrow Airport to Portsmouth. The issue was spotted by several eagle-eyed users on Wednesday night, who were quick to point out to any unwitting tourist relying on the app that the airport was positioned just west of London, not off the south coast.

The unfortunate mishap which hit the app on Wednesday and continued into Thursday, placed the country’s most visited airport 70 miles away from its actual location and in the water just next to Portsmouth’s Historic Dockyard. A problem with Google Maps has led to the app showing Heathrow Airport in the middle of Portsmouth’s docks.

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