Google Maps and Me

Home is where the heart is?

No, it's where Google maps puts the location marker.  Google maps had the location marker for our home somewhere out in the woods on our property.  As a result, navigation directed all visitors to an adjacent street behind our property.  Inspired by my daughters to be a change agent, it finally dawned on me that perhaps I could change my little piece of the navigation world. 

I posted my dilemma in a Google maps forum and quickly got two responses.  I was able to submit a change to the location marker for my house with an error explanation and move it closer to my driveway entrance. Who knew that for three years a change to this frustrating situation was in my control.  Google Maps approved the change and in two days we are back on the map as living on our own street.  Three years of cursing the navigation system that imposed this on me, and all it took was my own input to make the system more accurate.  Lesson #1: Ask for help in navigating the system! The Google Maps forum community quickly came to my assistance with the information I needed and provided me the link to submit my update. Google Mapmaker

Technology continues to change the world as we know it. Remarkably though information still is only as good as the local input received. Lesson #2: Technology gives us the vehicle to broadcast that local information. Little actions have impact. Make your mark.