New house but not on map !!
Jan 31st 2007, 7:37 pm
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New house but not on map !!
My wife and I purchased a new house in the US a few months back. Unfortunatly our address does not appear on yahoo maps, mapquest etc etc.
So, when any visitor, service person, Fex Ex, UPS etc have the need to come to our house they can never find it without a 10 minute telephone conversation guiding them along their way...
Does anyone know, having had a similar experience to us, how often the map web sites get updated !? - I tried searching for this answer on the web but couldn't get an answer...
So, when any visitor, service person, Fex Ex, UPS etc have the need to come to our house they can never find it without a 10 minute telephone conversation guiding them along their way...
Does anyone know, having had a similar experience to us, how often the map web sites get updated !? - I tried searching for this answer on the web but couldn't get an answer...
Jan 31st 2007, 7:55 pm
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Re: New house but not on map !!
My wife and I purchased a new house in the US a few months back. Unfortunatly our address does not appear on yahoo maps, mapquest etc etc.
So, when any visitor, service person, Fex Ex, UPS etc have the need to come to our house they can never find it without a 10 minute telephone conversation guiding them along their way...
Does anyone know, having had a similar experience to us, how often the map web sites get updated !? - I tried searching for this answer on the web but couldn't get an answer...
So, when any visitor, service person, Fex Ex, UPS etc have the need to come to our house they can never find it without a 10 minute telephone conversation guiding them along their way...
Does anyone know, having had a similar experience to us, how often the map web sites get updated !? - I tried searching for this answer on the web but couldn't get an answer...
Jan 31st 2007, 8:06 pm
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Re: New house but not on map !!
My wife and I purchased a new house in the US a few months back. Unfortunatly our address does not appear on yahoo maps, mapquest etc etc.
So, when any visitor, service person, Fex Ex, UPS etc have the need to come to our house they can never find it without a 10 minute telephone conversation guiding them along their way...
Does anyone know, having had a similar experience to us, how often the map web sites get updated !? - I tried searching for this answer on the web but couldn't get an answer...
So, when any visitor, service person, Fex Ex, UPS etc have the need to come to our house they can never find it without a 10 minute telephone conversation guiding them along their way...
Does anyone know, having had a similar experience to us, how often the map web sites get updated !? - I tried searching for this answer on the web but couldn't get an answer...
It's not unusual for delivery people and taxi drivers to call to ask for directions to an address regardless of how long the residence has been there either.
Jan 31st 2007, 9:59 pm
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Re: New house but not on map !!
Give it a couple of years to appear..yahoo and all that will fix something if it's wrong, but if it's not there, there ain't much to be done about it.
Jan 31st 2007, 10:35 pm
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Re: New house but not on map !!
My wife and I purchased a new house in the US a few months back. Unfortunatly our address does not appear on yahoo maps, mapquest etc etc.
So, when any visitor, service person, Fex Ex, UPS etc have the need to come to our house they can never find it without a 10 minute telephone conversation guiding them along their way...
Does anyone know, having had a similar experience to us, how often the map web sites get updated !? - I tried searching for this answer on the web but couldn't get an answer...
So, when any visitor, service person, Fex Ex, UPS etc have the need to come to our house they can never find it without a 10 minute telephone conversation guiding them along their way...
Does anyone know, having had a similar experience to us, how often the map web sites get updated !? - I tried searching for this answer on the web but couldn't get an answer...
Feb 1st 2007, 12:23 am
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Re: New house but not on map !!
Send an email to NAVTEQ and TeleAtlas. They provide most of the map data for google, mapquest, yahoo, etc. NAVTEQ actually has a section on their website to add an address, not sure if it does any good though, they still tell people to go to the wrong end of the road to get to my house.
Feb 1st 2007, 4:05 am
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Re: New house but not on map !!
My neighborhood took about 2 1/2 years to appear on Google Maps, the satellite image still shows the bare field with only the outline of the roads. Mapquest still does not find my address.
At least the entrance road to the neighborhood is on all the maps so it's not to hard to give out directions.
At least the entrance road to the neighborhood is on all the maps so it's not to hard to give out directions.
Feb 1st 2007, 8:18 pm
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Re: New house but not on map !!
Not on Mapqwest etc either, house built 8 years ago.
Rairly now have problems with UPS, only once when they had a temp on the route.
Anybody else I give them directions or e mail a link with a big x where we are.
Actually now think of it as a positive.
Rairly now have problems with UPS, only once when they had a temp on the route.
Anybody else I give them directions or e mail a link with a big x where we are.
Actually now think of it as a positive.
