I think I know why goolging directions bringf up some strange directions.
At my nephews suggestion I Googled the ranch where I was born. The Ranch has a driveway off the 101 highway to where the ranch house use to be. There is a dirt path from there to the back of the ranch.
Behind the ranch there is another piece of property with a driveway where La Encina Dr ends in Prundale. And a dirt path from the house that goes near the fence between the two properties. Google mapp has both driveways and both paths labled as "La Encina Dr.
If they ever give directions for someone in Prunedale to Dunbarton road this would be the shortest way. Except for the private property. The gates. the brush between the two properties. This could be fun.
I sometimes wonder about their info. My parents live in a not-quite sub-division that is basically one long road (2 miles-ish), with a lot of small roads off of it, some inter-connecting some not. The one before theirs, Duncan Drive, is not labeled. The one you take for their house, Lee Street, is labeled Duncan Drive. Then a random diagonal road, which would cut through a couple of houses if it existed, is drawn in and labeled Lee Street!
There is also a road that dead-ends behind my parent’s neighbors house, which Google maps has as a through street.
And to get to my house, you don’t take the new bridge, built over 5 years ago. And you don’t take even take the old bridge, as if it just hadn’t been updated yet. No, you go miles and miles out of the way, up some holler and over a mountain on a gravel road, that I am not even sure is passable.
Doesn’t matter how many times I’ve turned it in as a mistake, it’s still there.
Google maps seems to have an issue with our road and house numbers. It doesn’t bother me so much, as I can find the house exactly if I look for the small cul-de-sac across the street, but our gps does the same. If you program it in to home by address, or type our address in Google maps, it puts you going about 400 meters down the road or so. If you click “set current” on our gps while in the driveway to set it as home, it estimates the house number, but it is 100-150 off at least. I don’t really know that it would be a reportable issue, but the fact that they have a non-existent road at the end of ours connecting to the highway, that may be.
Brendon Small
One problem with addresses is that computers will tend to think they are spread evenly. That is, halfway between 100 and 200 there will be 150. Since it’s a lot to memorize the address of every single building, you generally only will remember what the address is at the cross streets and go from there. This is a decent assumption, but sometimes fails.
Google maps has fixed the one address I knew it gave incorrectly, so maybe it actually does know the address of every single building. It correctly puts 120 Winona Street, Northfield, MN near the corner of 2nd street, where the other side of 2nd street starts from 200.
I once used google maps to get to an arena and the road it told me to take ended in a bayou. Just sloped into the water, I guess for boats or something. But beyond the bayou and a huge empty lot, I could see the arena. Google map should also include the fact that you have to bring a canoe and hiking boots to follow their directions.