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.
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.
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.
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.
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If they carried a Starlink along they would be able to call for help...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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I have seen old vehicle titles list General Delivery as address…
Google showed street view of my home and neighbors and was forced to remove because the road is private…
It’s happened in Oregon too…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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How fast is the server storing the files? The connection and traffic on that end will affect everything.
It seems odd that the only restriction you had was a steel mailbox post. There is no regulation regarding mailbox posts up here and I think the snowplow drivers try to get as close as possible to throw snow at mailboxes up here. It's common to see wooden mailbox posts broken off after a good snowstorm.There were no building permits needed when I bought this property. My only link to the government at that time was the county records and deeds department. I installed a pole and had electric service run to the pole long before I had an "address". The electric people used a pole number as the address. I only had to have an address when I applied to the State for a driveway entrance. The address came from USPS and they had their own application process. The state and USPS communicated with me via a plastic bag hanging on the old fence line. I had to have a mail box but the state had to install a steel breakaway post for it first. The whole process went on for months. The state also had specific requirements for the driveway entrance. That's a story on it's own.
