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ericm979 · Jul 4, 2017

I have the same problem. Mapping software shows our house in about the right location but usually shows the wrong way to get there (it was valid in 1950 but not now). Drivers take the wrong way even though there's a sign pointing the right way. Instructions I give don't make it to the driver, except the one time I was able to get the driver on the phone ahead of time. He still didn't follow my directions, made the wrong turn and had to turn around on a very narrow single lane road.

Sysop · Jul 4, 2017

GPS is mostly useless in my region for that same fact. Lots of roads they try to send you on are nothing more than logging roads from 80 years ago that are hardly fit to take an ATV on these days.

Code54 · Jul 4, 2017

Sysop said:
GPS is mostly useless in my region for that same fact. Lots of roads they try to send you on are nothing more than logging roads from 80 years ago that are hardly fit to take an ATV on these days.

That is 100% correct - been on a few "roads" up there and thought "what am I doing here"?? LOL

TemporaryKubotaOwnerMark · Jul 4, 2017

ericm979 said:
I have the same problem. Mapping software shows our house in about the right location but usually shows the wrong way to get there

Which mapping software? I have a friend who lives in an area where Google gets it wrong 100% of the time, while MapQuest works fine.

Most places, Google is quite accurate, and they do accept corrections. I got them to stop sending people to my house via my neighbor's driveway. They appreciated that.

It took about a year after I submitted the correction, but it did get corrected. Did the same with MapQuest.

California · Jul 5, 2017

Mapquest and Google show our easement has the name that is signposted on the next-over parallel street - which is a short segment reached near the back end of our easement.

But my tax bill shows the easement with a different road name, probably the official name per the Building Department. This name isn't used for anything else.

The physical easement has no markings at all.

The six of us fronting on, and using, the easement have postal addresses that fall out on the county road, not very close to where our easement meets that road. But our mailboxes are mounted at our individual driveways along the easement - so searching out on the county road for one would never find it.

Confused yet?

This is why for guests I provide my postal address, which they will find on the mailbox when they reach my driveway. And also a 'made-up' address that their GPS will use to take them down the unmarked easement and right to my place.

Country living is just different.

TemporaryKubotaOwnerMark · Jul 5, 2017

California said:
Country living is just different.

Yeah, my neighbor's driveway runs from the front of his 2 acre lot on the main road, all the way through to the back of his lot, on our street. Looks like a road to satellite pictures, so that's how the mapping companies had it listed.

California · Jul 7, 2017

Back on-topic.

Oops!

Sysop · Jul 7, 2017

More interesting than wrong...

sixdogs · Jul 7, 2017

California said:
Back on-topic.

Oops!

You would think even someone with no knowledge or experience would know enough to look under the vehicle first to see where the forks were positioned.