Google Map And Home Address???

 

I know this has been posted in the past, but it is strange that Google Maps, actually Yahoo maps also, has moved my house up the road. It was OK for the last several days,,,any idea for what's happening? It ain't the GPS's fault.

your not alone....

My house was showing up at the wrong end up the street on mapquest. They do however have a function where you can correct the error and I believe it saves to the mapquest database. I checked back a few months after my address change and noticed the correction I made still stands correct. Not sure if yahoo maps also offer this or not?

I made the correction in

I made the correction in Google, and the PC here took it, plus the Navigon showed me where I am supposed to be today. Google is s strong engine. Thanks.

UPADATE: My update didn't stick, except here on my local PC. Maybe there's a central D-base needing the change.

The apartment building that

The apartment building that I just moved out of was wrong on every mapping site I tried - all of them had it completely on the other end of town. All addresses on the right street (which had the wrong name) were in the 400's (no addresses on the street are there). It was wrong in my Nuvi too (had to program home by standing in the parking lot and setting my current location as home.

Just noticed today, however, that mapquest now shows it right. Maybe the others will eventually too. I did report the error to Garmin who forwarded it to Navteq - maybe that is the reason for the fix.

MapQuest "My Map" is just a local overlay

sidvic999 wrote:

I made the correction in Google, and the PC here took it, plus the Navigon showed me where I am supposed to be today. Google is s strong engine. Thanks.

UPADATE: My update didn't stick, except here on my local PC. Maybe there's a central D-base needing the change.

When you use the "My Map" option in MapQuest or Google, it is a local overlay only. It does not update the master database for the rest of us. So if you check the address on a different computer, it will still use the original coordinates. It is still a usable function, because the correct coordinates will be downloaded to your GPS.

Google changes do stick

johnc wrote:

When you use the "My Map" option in MapQuest or Google, it is a local overlay only. It does not update the master database for the rest of us.

Oh but on Google Maps changes you make to non-commercial locations DO stick for everyone.

For example, go to Google Maps and type in...
"610 Lantana Ln, 92251"
which is the address of some people we know out in California who I needed in my GPS for when we go visit them again. I edited their location because it was wrong. Notice when you pull up that address, on the bottom it says "Last edited by PT on..."

Clearly I am not logged onto your computer. wink

PT

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Garmin nüvi 200 (my first GPS), 780, & 3700 Series. And a Mac user.

Stop that!

Guttermouth wrote:

Oh but on Google Maps changes you make to non-commercial locations DO stick for everyone.

For example, go to Google Maps and type in...
"610 Lantana Ln, 92251"
which is the address of some people we know out in California who I needed in my GPS for when we go visit them again. I edited their location because it was wrong. Notice when you pull up that address, on the bottom it says "Last edited by PT on..."

Clearly I am not logged onto your computer. wink

PT

Hey you! Get outta my computer! wink I stand corrected. I'm not sure I like it that way, though. How would I know that this location is really accurate and doesn't lead me into the river or down the middle of the train tracks like some of those news articles? Or is there some sort of verification/authentication process?

Stop that!

johnc wrote:
Guttermouth wrote:

Oh but on Google Maps changes you make to non-commercial locations DO stick for everyone.
For example, go to Google Maps and type in...
"610 Lantana Ln, 92251"
which is the address of some people we know out in California who I needed in my GPS for when we go visit them again. I edited their location because it was wrong. Notice when you pull up that address, on the bottom it says "Last edited by PT on..."
Clearly I am not logged onto your computer. wink
PT

Hey you! Get outta my computer! wink I stand corrected. I'm not sure I like it that way, though. How would I know that this location is really accurate and doesn't lead me into the river or down the middle of the train tracks like some of those news articles? Or is there some sort of verification/authentication process?

I think that was the logic of TomTom's user upgrade program. You can choose to download all user changes or just the user changes that TomTom has verified. I'd go with latter option.

That's all I need is some jerk changing the map so I drive into a river!

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I don't know where I'm going or remember where I've been...without Garmin.

Changes can only be minor

johnc wrote:

I'm not sure I like it that way, though. How would I know that this location is really accurate and doesn't lead me into the river or down the middle of the train tracks like some of those news articles? Or is there some sort of verification/authentication process?

There are a few rules about editing locations. You can not edit commercial locations unless you are the commerical business making the charge. And the changes you do make to maps only allow a certain distance before it gets flagged for review by Google to check the change. So in other words, you can tweak a location a few houses or maybe even a block, but you can not take someone's house in Boston and put it in New Jersey or in the middle of a nearby lake, etc.

PT

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Garmin nüvi 200 (my first GPS), 780, & 3700 Series. And a Mac user.

View History Option

Also, if you click edit there is an option to view history, so you could also see how far it was moved and how often.

Thanks for pointing this out by the way, I didn't know you could do that in Google.

Google Maps can be Public OR Private.

Guttermouth wrote:
johnc wrote:

When you use the "My Map" option in MapQuest or Google, it is a local overlay only. It does not update the master database for the rest of us.

Oh but on Google Maps changes you make to non-commercial locations DO stick for everyone.
For example, go to Google Maps and type in...
"610 Lantana Ln, 92251"
which is the address of some people we know out in California who I needed in my GPS for when we go visit them again. I edited their location because it was wrong. Notice when you pull up that address, on the bottom it says "Last edited by PT on..."
Clearly I am not logged onto your computer. wink
PT

ANSWER: I logged into Google maps under my account.
When I clicked "create new map", there is an option at the bottom for public or private. My guess is private locks them out, public is just that.

There is also another button called collaboration. You can allow certain people or anyone to make changes to that map.

WHAT I COULDN'T FIND was how to send the map to my Nuvi 360 as indicated in another post. You can email it, set up an RSS feed, but I didn't see anything about actually downloading it into a GPS.
What am I missing?

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I don't know where I'm going or remember where I've been...without Garmin.

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You cannot send maps from Google Maps to your GPS unit.

Google Maps supports sending individual points to the unit.

Search for a business, an address, coordinates, etc. Once you have the location on the screen, you can send it to the unit.

If you click "Send" (which is the envelope icon), then click "Send to GPS" in the pop up window. Then just follow the prompts.

Be sure your GPS unit is attached to your computer before starting.

Also, you must install the Garmin Communicator Plug-In before it will work at all.

In all due respect, that has

In all due respect, that has not worked. I still get sent to the skewed location, some 200 feet up the road. What does saving the address to the Garmin actually do? I got a good save to the 660, but I am still "misplaced." tia

It actually stored as a "Favorite." Is there a way to get it as "Home?"

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Well, if you were responding directly to my post, my post was a response to the one post directly above mine, not to the OP.

In answer to your OP, it's normal for the addresses to be off in some places.

It's important to understand how some/most of the addresses in the maps are generated. The database doesn't actually "know" where every address is. What it knows is that a certain street segment has a certain RANGE of addresses on it. Then it attempts to place the addresses along the street segment using the addressing "rules" that it has for that areas.

Sometimes it's very accurate. Other times it's only an approximation.

Ok thanks. Strange that when

Ok thanks. Strange that when I first got the Nuvi 660 is nailed my home address perfectly. I suspect it's all in the sat's mapping, yet perplexing why it was right in the beginning. Sv

How Addresses Are Shown on Maps

Here's an excellent post describing how addresses are shown on maps. http://www.poi-factory.com/node/16359

Fixed It!

It was very easy, I used the info posted in a link in a recent discussion "THE SECRET (?) SPEED NUMBERS THEY DIDN'T TELL YOU ABOUT"

Garmin 660 was as simple as deleting the HOME, and following the link's stuff and letting it accept the current location, cool!

My Navigon had to be fooled with a manual entry after deletion of the HOME setting, I had to tell it HOME was actuall 1170, not 1110, now all is clear there as well.