As a quirk of street layouts and house numbering, the house I live in has the same street name and number as another house about 20 minutes away in a different town. Ie both addresses start “123 Foo Street,” but then have two different cities and zip codes.<p>Google Maps does not understand this. If you enter any part of my address, even the entire address including city and zip code, it still routes to the other city.<p>This causes an astonishing number of problems. Visitors getting lost is the least of it: Apple Maps works fine, and if people don’t have Apple we just tell them another close by address that works correctly.<p>But whenever we get deliveries, technicians, etc. it doesn’t work. I can’t get an Uber. Our school district had a bunch of problems because some stupid computer of theirs uses Google to geolocate us and considers us out of district: it took dozens of calls and complaints to get our kids enrolled in the school walking distance from the house.<p>I have tried suggesting an edit to both addresses, but that doesn’t work. The full address is correct for both locations, the problem is something to do with Google’s autocomplete ranking, I guess it ranks the other city first and “corrects” anything you enter, including the full city and zip code.<p>Anyone know any way to fix this kind of thing?
The way to get an issue like this fixed is a post on Hacker News with an sufficient number of upvotes to get to the front page for a long enough time. Good luck!
Cynical Reaction: Get a lawyer to write a one-page "You might be able to sue Google for misdirecting you here if..." letter, make a bunch of copies of that, and put 'em in one of those clear-plastic-box-on-a-post things (which Realtors use for flyers about a house for sale) at the front of your lot. With a sign (large enough to be easily read on Google Street View) explaining what the letters are about.