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[grsthegreat]

I just bought a 911 street number sign for the gate at our new place. It's amazing how inconsistent the various map apps will show our address.

I'm also going to buy a sign for our private road. I'm surprised the other 5 neighbors haven't thought to put a street sign out at the main road.

Im surprised google maps changed anything. Our neighbors private driveway still shows up on google maps as a through road. It dead ends at their house. For at least 10 years they've tried to get it changed. They keep getting semis, including doubles, stuck in his driveway.

Google never changes their software.

He put a large sign stating private driveway, no exit. Doesnt stop the sheep that follow their GPS to hell and back.

 

[ponytug]

Im surprised google maps changed anything. Our neighbors private driveway still shows up on google maps as a through road. It dead ends at their house. For at least 10 years they've tried to get it changed. They keep getting semis, including doubles, stuck in his driveway.

Google never changes their software.

He put a large sign stating private driveway, no exit. Doesnt stop the sheep that follow their GPS to hell and back.

I've been able to change a few errors around here. It wasn't quick and a few items had to be submitted more than once, but they did fix it in the end. I certainly had the feeling that an algorithm or a human was sorting to what to act upon.

All the best,

Peter

 

[JRH02]

Google refused my map addition. After a while I determined they did me a favor and I dropped the issue.

What a blessing in hind sight.

 

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Im surprised google maps changed anything. Our neighbors private driveway still shows up on google maps as a through road. It dead ends at their house. For at least 10 years they've tried to get it changed. They keep getting semis, including doubles, stuck in his driveway.

Google never changes their software.

He put a large sign stating private driveway, no exit. Doesnt stop the sheep that follow their GPS to hell and back.

Google maps had street view down our private drive, past our house and to the one neighbor beyond us. They had my address pinned at my barn gate.... brilliant.

I sent in a complaint; they removed the streetview and re-pinned my address to the front house gate -- it can be done.

 

[JRH02]

Regarding Starlink, when I began learning that it actually lived up to the hype and wasn't just another 'high speed' satellite internet claim I immediately tried to get on the waiting list. But to initiate things the list required a physical address and Starlink used the USPS addressing system for validation. So I couldn't sign up. It was somewhere around a year later and I kept trying. Finally Starlink modified the application so I could use the Google Plus code for our location and they also allowed shipment to our USPS Extended Services PO Box in town.

Starlink, even with all the automation and AI stuff, definitely has thinking people around.

 

[ponytug]

Google maps had street view down our private drive, past our house and to the one neighbor beyond us. They had my address pinned at my barn gate.... brilliant.

I sent in a complaint; they removed the streetview and re-pinned my address to the front house gate -- it can be done.

That was one of the misfires around here that put folks a half mile down the road in a clump of trees staring at a field gate, with no visibility as to where they out to be, causing most of them to drive a rather precarious mile down the road, most of which is a narrow single lane road stapled to a slope that is almost a cliff.

Flatlanders generally needed a reviving beverage when they got turned around and finally arrived here.

Another was labeling a neighbors driveway as a public road, named after our ranch. That road is also stapled to a hillside. The delivery folks have gotten used to it, but they do still occasionally drive off of it with some regularity, but so far not over the cliff.

All the best,

Peter

 

[JRH02]

It probably won't happen this year because of the lack of snow.... But every year previous someone thinks they can follow their GPS route from the Yakima, WA valley to the Columbia River area with their GPS. They end up stranded on forest roads through the Gifford Pinchot National, stuck in deep snow and can't turn around. No cell service and nothing for miles and miles. There have been some tragedies.

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