Next time you walk past the Northwestel Building and Christmas in Hollis begins playing, maybe start running.
On Google Maps, some clown has decided to rename the building Nakatomi Plaza – the fictitious skyscraper in which Bruce Willis and Alan Rickman battle to the death during 1988’s Die Hard, one of the greatest Christmas movies ever made.
The contribution, which appears to have been made under a pseudonym, began showing up on Google Maps recently.
Google has a feature that allows people to suggest edits to the map. (You can also request corrections if information is wrong.)
Nakatomi Plaza is not the only apparent addition. Last week, for example, residents were perplexed to discover the map had christened a rocky lakeside area of Tin Can Hill “Willie Nelson’s Beach.”
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The newly added names don’t appear on maps provided by rivals such as Apple and OpenStreetMap.
In one Google review of the alleged Nakatomi Plaza, a person writes: “A great place to meet the Hans Gruber team for discussing what is in the vault. Unforgettable experience.”
“Any illegal, offensive, fraudulent, or malicious data on Google Maps is considered as spam,” Google states on its website, ruining the festive Nakatomi mood. “Users found to be involved in spam will be banned.”
