Google Maps Doesn’t Know How Street Addresses Work
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(or actually they do, but they don’t use this knowledge effectively)I was driving around Vernon, BC a few weeks ago and I asked Google Maps for directions to 3207 30th Ave. It confidently told me w…
  • guy_threepwood@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    In the UK we have this thing called a Post Code. And unlike some other areas of the world (looking at you, US Zip Codes) this is quite specific in that it only refers to maybe a maximum of 20 addresses (for my street it is five, and I live in a city); you can send a letter / route to somewhere usually with just a door number and post code.

    So many services and apps want the first line of the address now, and then give you a list of addresses to choose from, many of which have the same street name and don’t show the post code clearly, if at all.

    This is a solved problem, and it used to be fine. Why are they making it worse? 🙄

    • Horse {they/them}@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      you can send a letter / route to somewhere usually with just a door number and post code.

      in some rural places you used to be able to address a letter to “the blue cottage near the woods, [closest village], [county]” and be 99% sure it would get there