by Alan McGuinness

Rochester Cathedral is over the bridge in Strood, Allhallows is in the ocean and Medway is a small town just outside of Cliffe.

Well, that’s according to the iPhone’s new mapping software anyway.

The amusing and baffling mistakes have come to light as iPhone users around the world updated their phones with the latest version of Apple’s iOS software.

The application also comes with the iPhone 5, the company’s latest smart phone, which was released last week.

Apple has developed its own software after ditching Google Maps, using data from a variety of different firms, including TomTom.

But users have complained the application is riddled with inaccuracies.

The Medway Messenger has tested the software to see how good a job it does mapping the Towns’ key locations and landmarks, and there are numerous errors.

The Central Theatre in High Street, Chatham has been placed among trees in a Strood car park.

A search for Chatham gives you the ‘Borough of Chatham’ out towards Rainham.

Allhallows golf club has also been given a name change, and is now known as "Allhollows golf club".

The council’s offices at Gun Wharf in Dock Road, Chatham, don’t exist according to the application.

Apple has said it is working to improve the software.

Spokeswoman Trudy Muller said: "We are continuously improving it, and as Maps is a cloud-based [web-based] solution, the more people use it, the better it will get.

"We appreciate all of the customer feedback and are working hard to make the customer experience even better."

TomTom said last week it "stood by the quality" of the maps, and was "more than willing" to help Apple improve the application.