Google maps places me in Mexico. I'm in Colorado

Huh. When I bring up Google maps, it centers my location in Mexico. And everything is in Spanish.

I don’t see a place on Google maps to set your default location.

I use DirecTV/HughesNet satellite service, so I’m guessing my ground based server is in Mexico? (It used to work fine)

Are you saying the DirecTV is your internet provider via satellite?

I’ve had Apple maps on my phone (GPS) place me in Florida once, when I was at a Wal-Mart in the Chicago burbs. Anybody have an idea of what could have happened there? I mean, I’ve seen it put me a couple streets over and things like that, especially when I’m downtown in the midst of all the skyscrapers, but this was flatland, and it put me halfway across the country. This happened inside the Wal-Mart, if that’s a clue.

I suspect this problem is in your Google profile settings. On a Google map page, choose the blue icon in the top right corner to edit you settings.

I don’t know about iPhones, but on Android devices location may be determined not just by GPS, but also ip address, wifi access point id, and phone mast triangulation. Particularly indoors where GPS signals may be poor wifi is often the most accurate, but relies on Google (or Apple in your case) having an accurate location in their database for a given access point.

Yes, DirecTV via satellite is my internet provider. It’s unfortunately, my only option.

I figured it was some sort of profile setting, but everything is in Spanish on the Google Map page. I clicked the blue icon, and I logged in with my gmail account and all it asks for is an option to ‘Follow things you love’ (Art, Features, Travel and other BS. No location options or anything else.)

Heh. MapQuest defaults my location to Germantown Maryland.

Yeah, if Google doesn’t know your address it tries to deduce it from your ISP but that’s a little tricky with a satellite internet provider.

FWIW, you can type “home” into the Google Maps search bar and it’ll let you enter/edit your home address. I think then it’ll take you there by default, assuming you’re logged in and it doesn’t have a current location fix from a phone.

Perhaps somebody is making a political statement:

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I figured it had to be based on the ISP. DirecTV and Hughes have been messing with things recently and my internet connection is even worse than before (hard to believe that’s possible).

My home address on any site I search puts me anywhere but home. But I understand that. We live quite rural. I don’t dare use UPS or FedX.

I’m sure that with the Sat internet, it just routes traffic as best it can. It’s odd though. It used to work just fine and at least put my in the US with English as the default. Guessing the ISP for me is in Mexico now.

A couple of weeks ago, I was at Keller Auditorium in Portland, OR and my Android phone thought I was at the Paramount Theater in Seattle, when I tried to check in via Facebook. I believe that Google Maps showed the same thing (location Seattle). I think the phone lost me when I was in the building.

Then, yesterday, the Home Depot mobile site thought I was in Seattle. I needed to re-do the Location feature to find me in Oregon again.

It seems that the location can get “stuck”, in Android, at least.

I was on a Princess cruise ship in Alaska last month, and when I was connected to the ship’s wi-fi network, my iPad’s map app thought I was in California. According to a crew member, that’s because Princess’s headquarters is there.

There was a whole year where my Android phone thought I worked at a very specific residential address in Corte Madera. Google Now kept telling me how long it would take me to get home from Corte Madera. At lunchtime it would recommend restaurants in Corte Madera. It told me the weather in Corte Madera. I sent report after report and finally got a reply that it would be too onerous to fix it.

None of this was on my phone. Just the home computer. Which now apparently has its closest ISP either in Mexico or the East coast.

Anyway, I do understand. I’ve been working in GIS for decades. Lot’s of different databases.

When I search for my house, as someone trying to deliver something to me might do, it locates me in the wrong ‘town’. I don’t live in a town. Rural addresses are still frankly a bitch. I have no zip code, and don’t get mail delivery.

I did contact Google a few months ago about that with tons of supporting information. They did get back to me but said they could not fix it. It took a few weeks before they got back to me, but I was stunned to hear anything at all.

Remember that scene in Yellow Submarine where the Vacuum Cleaner Monster vacuumed up everything?

That’s where the New Improved Google Maps put me now. All I can get anymore is a completely blank screen.

Get your lat/long ( lat 39.263445, long - 96.273456 ) , I prefer decimal view.

Get Open View maps, or Google maps or Google earth and use that to find your house if you can’t fly the map. Stick a flag in it, Do screen grabs for those that can’t follow written or verbal directions.

Or if they have a portable device, just tell them the numbers & that you have painted everything on the place in orange & white ( DayGlow ) in a checker board pattern… < veg >

We used to live 13 miles from the nearest gas station and Mr. Brown & Mr. FED X had no trouble. When you have 12’ of snow, it is just mean to call for a pick up… :smiley:

You know, somewhere in this is a Larry Niven/SciFi-Mystery short story waiting to be told.

Google seems to have some weird geographic glitches. I’m in New York, but when I ask Google to find a nearby party supply store, it keeps showing me a Party City in Chatswood, Australia. It doesn’t do this for any other queries, and when I ask for the nearest Party City it shows one a mile away. It seems to be the phrase “party supply” that makes it take me Down Under.

A few years ago, Google Street View insisted that there was a men’s clothing store located in the trunk of a car parked a couple of blocks from me. But I reported that, and it was quickly fixed.

Oh, I have no problem finding my house from any start point. What’s a bummer is the web site is still in Spanish.

That sucks…

Does it change the names of places, like Tulsa, Dallas, 1530 S. Florence?

Does it change any symbols?

How fast can you learn Spanish? :smiley: