America's rich generally have better schools, tidier parks and (surprisingly enough) more trees. But are their neighborhoods also more likely to be mapped by Google? That's the question two readers asked after I published a series of stories on East Carroll Parish, Louisiana, which I called "the most unequal place in America," based on its extraordinary level of income inequality. The readers noticed something I hadn't: The rich side of Lake Providence, which is the largest town in the parish, is mapped in detail by Google Street View; the poor side isn't. "After reading I your article, I wanted to see where this Lake Providence in Louisiana is. So I went to Google map and found it," wrote Sam Patadia, a 63-year-old in Houston. "Then I decided to look at the town through Google street view to see the houses there but I was surprised to find that even Google discriminates against poor. They have the street view of most of the northern part of the town but very little on the south side though the south side has more streets."
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Readers notice the poor side of a town isn't mapped with Google Street View
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John Sutter asks whether there is a trend with mapping and income
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Google: "We try to cover as many streets as possible"
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Sutter asks readers to send in examples from their communities
@placeholder was last mapped in 2008, she said, and it is unclear why the driver mapped one side of town and not the other.