Health & Fitness

This Perry Hall Map is Wrong

A Google map showing Perry Hall's boundaries is incorrect.

You may have heard the story about a faulty Google map that nearly started a war between Costa Rica and Nicaragua last November.

This map of Perry Hall may not start a war between White Marsh and Perry Hall, but I think it's just as serious. 

If you plug Perry Hall into Google, you'll find a thumbnail of Perry Hall's boundaries on a Google map. Rigid purple lines stretch from Carney to White Marsh to Kingsville. They start off fairly accurate and then stop along Belair Road on the north side, cutting off nearly all of , the , and a dozen other neighborhoods.

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Click on the map for a closer look and suddenly, the purple lines disappear.

I don't exactly blame Google for being confused about where Perry Hall starts and ends. It includes all of 21128, more than half of 21236 and bleeds into 21162, 21234 and 21087. 

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As an unincorporated community, its boundaries are best defined by a loose explanation provided by the Perry Hall Improvement Association: The boundaries of Perry Hall have traditionally been the Gunpowder Falls on the north, Pulaski Highway on the east, White Marsh Boulevard on the south and the Baltimore Gas & Electric power lines at Putty Hill on the west.

I'm not sure how the faulty Perry Hall Google map came to be, or how to fix it.

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