> Addresses are a mess (I won’t even try describing it), and I suspect that Google Maps has valid street addresses for a fairly small fraction of the total popu

> Addresses are a mess (I won’t even try describing it), and I suspect that Google Maps has valid street addresses for a fairly small fraction of the total population, probably even under half the population in big cities. Yet quite a few things I’ve been dealing with have been using Google Maps data (based on detectable idiosyncrasies), with a couple even not allowing custom entries! In the USA these sorts of issues may be troublesome to a small fraction of the people so that government and business can largely ignore it without it inconveniencing too many people, but in India it’s sheer madness. So you know what happens instead? You just don’t deal with the dodgy phone app or website, but instead ring the company’s local agent, or go into the company’s shop, or something like that, and they bypass their broken system. Can you give some examples and contrast those with the US? FWIW, address-to-map-location and directions in India can be unreliable on Google Maps, and are borderline useless on Apple Maps.