Google Maps covers apple store with a UPS truck?

One of my favorite features of Google Maps is also the feature I use least. Street View allows you to zoom into a 360 degree pic of the address, and see the view from the street. Very cool.

In seemingly unrelated news, today I decided that I can no longer function without a proper iPhone charger. So I looked up the address to the Apple store, thinking I’d get a walking short-cut since I work only a few blocks from the intersection. I searched for “apple store fifth avenue” on google maps, and out of habitual curiosity, I selected “street view”. What I saw was this…

Ladies and gentlemen, the apple st… a UPS truck? WTF?

I scooted the POV cursor to the north corner of the street to see the difference.

… and the south corner?

Ah, there’s the apple store. Amazing. Dick Chaney has to make Google take his house off of the maps, but Apple can’t even get their store shown. You’d think we could just replace this image with a better one.

That’s my proposal, peeps. Someone make a Google Maps API that allows users to login and override the store front shot of businesses with better photos. Maybe even link them up with a Flickr API and allow for galleries to be shared? If this already exists, let me know. I’ll gladly review it. So long as there’s no UPS truck in front of the freakin’ flagship apple store.