Britain’s newest national park has implored Google to stop removing it from the company’s online maps.
The South Downs National Park, which stretches across from Winchester in the west to Eastbourne in the East, only came into being in April, 2011, but has already found itself standing up to one of the world’s biggest technology firms.
It says that Google, which marks 14 of the UK’s national parks on its maps with a darker green shading, has removed the southern England park’s online boundaries on four separate occasions. The park currently does not show on the map, unless users search specifically for it.
Where the New Forest National Park has its markings, the South Downs does not Photo: GoogleMaps
“We don’t know why they keep deleting us, we’re sure it’s not deliberate but it is very frustrating,” said Trevor Beattie, chief executive for the South Downs National Park Authority.
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“Everyone trusts Google so, as Britain’s newest National Park, we’ve used GoogleMaps to help people find and enjoy the South Downs, volunteer and discover local food online. This stops working every time the South Downs National Park gets removed.”
A spokesperson for the park told Telegraph Travel that they had reported the issue to Google a number of times but said “it’s hard to get hold of them on the phone”.
The park includes parts of the south coast Photo: South Downs National Park
He said the deletions had occured within the course of a year. "We go on there for a bit and then we disappear again. It does cause problems."
The park’s most recent effort to be reinstated on the map was a Facebook post calling on Father Christmas to lend a hand.
It's the first of December so today we wrote our letter to Father Christmas...Dear Father Christmas,All we want for...
Posted by South Downs National Park Authority (SDNPA) on Tuesday, 1 December 2015
The post read: “Dear Father Christmas, all we want for Christmas this year is Peace on Earth and @GoogleMaps to reinstate the #SouthDownsNationalPark. Thank you!”
A spokesperson for Google said: “This is the first we [have] heard of this, so we will investigate immediately.”
Our guide to the National Park says of the region: “The wonder is that it took so long for this glorious landscape of sweeping, high-backed hills, hidden valleys, ancient woodland, idyllic farmsteads and stately homes to be declared a National Park.”
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