GPS, Internet maps-Correction?

IA Roy

Well-known Member
We have had a few visitors depending on GPS to get to our place. It works fine until the last mile. They are instructed to go east and we are almost a mile west of the intersection. Google maps or MapQuest give the same result. Do any of you out there have any idea who to contact to get this corrected? Otherwise, I must not know where I live.
Thanks, Roy
 
Good luck with that.

My driveway serves a land-locked lot behind me and consequently had to be named for 9-1-1 purposes.

Google has it mis-labeled as a road that's actually a half-mile away, and my "road" doesn't show up at all. It's a constant PITA when I use it as my physical address for delivery.

I've used their listed contact for corrections at least twice with ZERO results in over 3 years.
 
We have the same problem and we tell people to call us when they get near and we either give them good directions or meet them at the major road intersection. Our steel supplier changes drivers and one morning he ended up stuck in a peanut field looking for a road his GPS said with thru.
 

Talk to the people at 911. They may be able to help. Most Likely they also have the wrong directions and will want it fixed.

Dusty
 
It seems to me some of these 911 rural address changes were not made.

And so the services place everyone in that zone into the center of their old postal route area.

I know when I searched anyone in my area a year ago, they all went to the same spot. When I thought about it, that was the middle of the postal route.....

Paul
 

There is a place that I drive periodically that my GPS cannot get through from either direction. It is at the MA-NH state line and if I just happen to have the GPS on it will tell me to do a U-turn when I get to that point in the road.
 
If I ask Mapquest for directions to anywhere southeast of me, it sends me out of my driveway, 100 yards and turn left on Sawmill Hill. The bridge on Sawmill Hill was taken out by my neighbor with a load of silage, and never rebuilt, in 1962!!!
 
I don't remember how, but a few years ago when we were rebuilding a bridge with a long detour. the town notified Google and they got the word to the others and changed the mapping.
 
Google has an option where you can make corrections, I have done many. Click down in the lower rt corner where it says report a problem. What worries me is the trillion mistakes that I don't know about. We also like to use 2 map services when traveling. Google had the roads all wrong where we live so I told them to look at Bing maps, they have it right! Google has changed their format recently and I don't like it as well as classic.
 
We have the problem of living in one township and having a zip code for the adjoining township. What's worse is the dividing road is only a mile east of us. We're west, often folk's GPS will send them east.
 
Google, followed by GPS, used to have my house located 7 miles from where it actually is. I clicked on the link to report errors and reported it, but nothing happened. A couple of years later, they must have caught the error on a routine update 'cause it's OK now.
 
I live on "unnamed road", and the boss' dad's new Dodge truck told me to to go a valid highway before it could use the current location for "home" on the GPS.

I actually kinda like it that way. No can punch me into google or yahoo or whoever and find me.

I've had Yahoo maps tell me to go north, east, north, east, south, and then west to get from Stockville to Curtis.

Almost as good as back east, turn left out my driveway, go X miles, and turn right onto I-79. 6 miles from the nearest exit.
 

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