GPS

[newbury]

When all you have is an address that you don't have a clue where it is or the best route to take, the google maps on the phone is invaluable. You just say the address into the phone (or key it in if your prefer) and she says "OK, lets go!" and you are on your way to your next client.

And don't trust Google maps if you are searching for an address in the boonies.

Perhaps part of the reason I got such a deal on my retirement farm is that Google maps located the street address about a half mile away.

Back in 2011 when we were looking for house and land in Northeast Mississippi there were several times we would see an ad for a house with several acres or more, look it up on Google maps and find there was no house there, but eventually find the house by seeing the "for sale sign" within about a mile away on the same road.

Concerning the place we bought, Google maps had located the address about a half mile to the west down the correct road. But the house is not visible from the road due to thick woods and the realtor didn't like putting a "for sale" sign out. I think he was afraid of vandalism.

About 2014 they must have corrected the database and now our address is correctly mapped.

 

[California]

And don't trust Google maps if you are searching for an address in the boonies.

Yep. I'm a quarter mile in on a shared easement that goes to two parcels beyond me. Mailboxes for me, and the neighbors beyond, is at the intersection of my driveway and this easement. But the postal addresses shown on our maiboxes for the past 100 years would logically be on the county road where the easement starts. Incorrectly, Google, Mapquest, Garmin GPS, Zillow locate our postal addresses as unknown but somewhere up the county road a few hundred feet beyond the easement.

The county property tax bill shows a unique road name for the easement. Google and the others show that street name over in town where its a Street, not Road, nothing near here.

The name we see on Google Maps for the easement is the name that used to be on paper maps for a nearby parallel lane that is accessed from a different county road. Confused yet?

Google Streetview came down the easement when they first started mapping so I'm visible but this mixup over what out easement is called has led to a lot of confusion for guests. I've given up and told guests to use the Google name then look for my mailbox when they get in a quarter mile.

Google should have used the street name on the County property tax record, to identify this easement.