We're not on the map. By that I mean we are not on Google Maps. The part of our neighborhood where we live hasn't been mapped yet. (Man, are they behind. My house is over three years old.) This means we aren't in any of the GPS systems either.
So, anytime anyone (deliveries, repairs, etc) has to come to our house we invariably get a call before they arrive. "How do you get there?" We have to give them turn-by-turn directions over the phone. Knowledge of this has caused me to attempt to preemptively explain it and give directions when we make the original arrangements. Alas that never works. We still get the call every time from lost or bewildered drivers.
So I recently dug in and found out there is actually a way to submit edits to Google Maps. It's a bit of a process, but my edits have been accepted.
So, by the time you read this I can report with glee that we're one step closer to being findable. I feel like Steve Martin running down the street exclaiming, "The new phone books are here!" I'm somebody now! They don't have the house numbers in yet; they don't have an updated satellite photo (probably not for a while), and the street name isn't even searchable yet, but at least we're moving forward. This only shows up properly in google maps copy-written in 2011. Through my extensive testing and research I've learned that many of the mobile apps and other websites still pull data from 2010.
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At least now I can send people a link that will work.
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Since the only time I have been to the house was when the snow was up to our knees, I did not take note of the other street names. Now that I look at the map, I find it ironic that you didn't buy a house on the other side of the lake. There would have been something poetic about moving from Bent Tree to Crooked Tree. :-)
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