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There's no way to query an address in brooklyn on Google maps
- ixtli 8y agoTo be clear, whats happening here is that 55 Water St, Brooklyn, NY 11201 will always produce a pin for 55 Water St New York, NY 10004. Notably, 55 Water Street, The Empire Stores, Brooklyn, NY 11201 (which is a very strange way to format an address including the name of a store) will result in the correct location. Basically every dependent service is affected by this including Lyft, Seamless, and Uber. Interesting as well is that there's no clear way to submit a bug report to google when the search results are wrong because its not technically an issue with the map data.
- mtmail 8y agoIf you have local knowledge, can you add the address to https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/250402627 https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/250402627 (edit button, similar to wikipedia, just more visual editor)? It won't end up in Google database but many others (Apple Maps uses OSM data in many countries). I work in geocoding myself (https://opencagedata.com/ https://opencagedata.com/) and can't quite see why Google engine would misplace the result here. Lots of users mistype zip codes so they're sometimes discarded when another full match is found.
- altgeek 8y agoWhoa, yeah, I tried "55 water st, brooklyn,ny" in maps.google.com and it dropped the pin in Manhattan (the gigantic office 55 Water building that houses DTCC.)
- mattcosta7 8y agoHaving worked there, I confirm it's a pain, since this issue is pervasive to any service using those. People often have to mid-direct their deliveries, cars, etc to nearby addresses (54, across the street, works fine)
- mattcosta7 8y agoI've also had to fight with both Uber, Lyft and Seamless for refunds on mis-services to this address multiple times